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2009 - ASU installs a 1.8 megawatt solar PV system
2009 - ASU’s Campus Metabolism project tracks real-time energy for 13 buildings. 
2009 - Augustana monitors bird mortality at 5 campus buildings.
2009 - Ball State replaces 4 coal-fired stoker boilers with the nation’s largest geothermal energy project to heat and cool over 40 buildings. 
2009 - Bard launches electric bike-sharing program on Earth Day 2009.
2009 - Bethany College’s Green Team engages hundreds of people on campus in the college’s core value of sustainability.
2009 - Central Michigan’s Green Cleaning initiative implements a purchasing program in accordance with LEED-Existing Buildings. 
2009 - CPCC receives NWF Certified Wildlife Habitat designation for all six campuses.
2009 - Camp E.D.E.N was developed by Chatham U to re-introduce children to nature and inspire a lifelong sense of wonder for the earth.
2009 - COA’s waterfront student residence village consists of six houses constructed to be thoroughly environmentally aware
2009 - Columbia hosts an Eco Fair on Earth Day 2009 with green, sustainable vendors.
2009 - Daemen’s faculty and students create an Ecotrail for environmental education, reflection, and observation in the outdoor environment.
2009 - GreenLite Dartmouth educates students about conservation through real-time feedback on energy usage in dorm common spaces
2009 - Delta College signs the ACUPCC and conducts a GHG inventory as part of their commitment. 
2009 - Doane offers an Environmental Education for Early Childhood Learning Community to connected students to preschool and elementary education.
2009 - Elon partners with ARAMARK to start a re-usable water bottle program.
2009 - Elon U implements a print management system in areas with the greatest paper use - computer labs and the library
2009 - Elon U hosts its first residential energy competition, POWERless, to increase energy conservation awareness
2009 - Mason’s newest dining facility, Southside, is 98 percent waste free.
2009 - GMU hosts an Energy Roundtable Series, a month-long series of conversations on energy issues in the U.S.
2009 - GMU installs a small, non-certified organic vegetable garden in a courtyard by the Potomac Heights residence hall
2009 - GMU designs an ADA-compliant mobile recycling center for residence halls. 
2009 - GMU hosts a summer science camp called “Motor Mania” with campers ranging from fifth to seventh grade.
2009 - GMU’s Facilities Mgmt Engineers move 5 trees from a future construction site. 
2009 - Goucher’s Campus Agriculture Co-op collects buckets of raw fruit and vegetable waste from the Stimson Dining Hall for composting. 
2009 - Goucher's Facilities Management Services supports efforts to conserve energy – motion detectors for room lighting, faucets, and flush valves. 
2009 - By winter 09-10, Green Mountain will have a new biomass facility online to replace the power station that previously burned #6 fuel oil.
2009 - Green Mountain alumnus designs and installs a system that uses solar power to provide 100 gallons of hot water per day to the college’s Cerridwen Farm.
2009 - Harvard U’s Departmental Bike Program offers any department the option of purchasing a bike for use around campus instead of using a car or taxi.
2009 - Harvard U continues to grow its waste reduction program to include food waste composting in dorms, dining halls, cafes, offices, labs, and at large events.
2009 - The Office for Sustainability’s Green Offices at Harvard Certification guides office staff toward reducing their environmental impacts.
2009 - Harvard’s facilities maintenance operations has developed a 25 acre organic landscaping program. 
2009 - Energy
Harvard’s Shut the Sash encourages students and staff to close the sash on fume hoods to decrease energy use.
2009 - Humboldt’s Relight Redwood Bowl project will perform an energy retrofit based on replacement of existing stadium lighting in the campus’s Redwood Bowl.
2009 - Longwood’s single sawdust burning boiler supplies 90 percent of the annual heat and hot water needs, a replacement heating plant is under construction.
2009 - Marquette’s eLIMO project runs a student shuttle, a fleet of 15-passenger vans used to transport
students across campus
2009 - Massasoit installs two native New England plant gardens. 
2009 - Working through their Campus Sustainability Group, Merrimack implements campus-wide
recycling and ‘tray-less’ dining.
2009 - Middlebury’s biomass gasification plant cuts the college’s carbon footprint by 40 percent.
2009 - Ten teams of students stripped off their electricity use in Middlebury’s first Power Strip: How Much Can You Take Off? Challenge.
2009 - North Central’s 200,000 sq ft. residence hall/rec center will be LEED certified. 
2009 - The first project of Oikos Ashland is working with Mino Aki (Ojibwe for “good earth”), the local college and community garden.
2009 - As part of Northland’s Sustainable Living: Photovoltaics course, students installed an array of 38 solar panels on the roof of the Dexter Library.
2009 - Ohio U launches a solar powered, in-vessel composting system - the largest of its kind at any campus in the nation
2009 - The OHIO Ecohouse is a 3-person student residence, designed to demonstrate affordable green technology and sustainable living. 
2009 - Pacific Lutheran’s student group GREAN distributed 1,008 Nalgene® BPA-free water bottles to campus.
2009 - Point Loma goes trayless – saving 375 gallons of hot water each week. 
2009 - Point Loma installs a 310 kW PV solar system on the roofs of four buildings passes final inspection
2009 - Point Loma installs 42 waterless urinals from Falcon Waterfree Technologies, through a program run by the San Diego Water Authority.
2009 - Pomona’s installs eight large drying racks in five campus laundry rooms that provide a total of 420 feet of clothesline.
2009 - Clean Sweep is an event every spring semester where a team of 25 students collect reusable items from students, staff, and faculty.
2009 - Rhodes installs solar panels on roof of physics building, angled for maximum sun exposure.
2009 - Stonehill installs a 5000 sq. ft. green roof on their new Science Center. 
2009 - Bobcat Blend is a cafeteria composting project, where students compost post-consumer food waste from the dining hall.
2009 - Catholic constructs the first LEED college residence hall in the District of Columbia.
2009 - Evergreen creates an edible forest garden in a previously underdeveloped but shady site on campus.
2009 - Truman State creates a 0.25-acre carbon sequestration test plot on campus farm.
2009 - UC Davis Dining Services composts 98% of all organic matter including kitchen scraps and uneaten food. 
2009 - UC Davis’ Resource Recovery Drive diverts 7,137 pounds of reusable materials from the landfill.
2009 - UC Davis’ Positive Impact is an educational initiative to provide sustainability programs and resources to students living on campus. 
2009 - “Take a Vacation from the Pump” was a promotion designed to encourage UCLA commuters who drive solo to try transit for an entire summer, risk free.
2009 - UCSD installs one megawatt of clean, renewable photovoltaic power.
2009 - UC San Diego is designated as a Tree Campus USA, an Arbor Day Foundation program. 
2009 - UC San Diego’s alternative transportation program saved an estimated 18,972 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions in 2008.
2009 - AQUAholics Anonymous is a coalition between students, staff and faculty designed to combat UC San Diego’s water use addiction.
2009 - UCF creates an on-campus, organic, community garden that grows fruit, vegetables, native edibles, and herbs.
2009 - UC’s Sustainable Offices Program was created to help offices and departments on campus set sustainability goals.
2009 - UIC conducts a commuter survey to determine the modes of transportation used and the distance traveled by staff and students.
2009 - University of Maine’s Student Recreation and Fitness Center receives LEED Silver.
2009 - UM FLAT is an experiential live-in resource house for students demonstrating sustainable living.
2009 - UM’s Native American Center will be the first LEED building on campus. 
2009 - UM’s Dining Services creates the a Farm-to-College program, purchasing foods such as safflower oil, beef, and bread, & other.
2009 - 20 faculty members from across the UM campus participate in Green Thread.
2009 - UNC Charlotte reduces petroleum use by 30% through a Petroleum Displacement Program. 
2009 - Garbage on the Green conducts baselines for garbage recycling and helps identify areas for improvement. 
2009 - University of North Florida competes in RecycleMania 2009.
2009 - University of Oregon launches their global warming awareness campaign, Don’t Kill Polar Bears!
2009 - URI surveys campus on knowledge and use of alternative transportation methods.
2009 - UT Knoxville launches their energy conservation awareness campaign, Switch Your Thinking.
2009 - The Scott Park Campus of Energy and Innovation facility will be the premier location for energy research and solutions.
2009 - University of Washington hosts a CFL exchange on campus.
2009 - WWC’s EcoDorm, now certified LEED EB Platinum, is a working model home for ecological and social sustainability.
2009 - WWC’s GREENDRUM is a continuous feed system that accommodates as much as 3,000 pounds of material each day.
2009 - Warren Wilson College adopts a local food policy for campus.
2009 - INSULATE! reaches out to lower-income homeowners and insulates their homes free of charge to reduce their utility bills and their carbon footprint.
2009 - WWC conducts GHG inventory with a goal of reducing emissions by 25% over 5 years.
2009 - WWC’s habitat restoration requires cooperation between the farm, garden, forest and all other wildlife and conservation initiatives.
2009 - WWC is committed to renewable energy and efficiency on campus.
2009 - Yale’s Spring Salvage is an annual campus-wide repurposing effort that collects and donates items.
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