可持续性

11项清单.

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  太阳能电池阵列

  目的是2,898面板, 745 kilowatt system generates more than 90 percent of the School’s electricity, 约1.每年2200万千瓦. 点击 在这里 for a live dashboard showing current and historical power production. 
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  绿杯挑战赛

  每2月, mg冰球突破豪华版试玩网站的220名寄宿学生缩短了洗澡时间, 昏暗的灯光, 低恒温器, 并回收更多的垃圾，因为他们争夺最环保宿舍的称号. 这种友好的竞争赋予了学生力量, 构建社区, and raises awareness about climate change and the importance of resource conservation.
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  猪计划

  Several generations of well-tended porkers have completed the loop in our community’s food cycle by feeding on Dining Hall food scraps and eventually becoming food themselves. 除了减少浪费, this program affords students a crucial firsthand glimpse into food systems.
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  养蜂

  目的的学生养蜂计划支持健康的, productive colony of local bees that pollinate campus plants and have supplied the community with more than 90 pounds of honey.
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  马粪堆肥

  目的 recently completed construction of a manure and food waste composting facility, 部分资金由威尔J. 瑞德基金会. 而不是用卡车运送1,200 tons of manure produced annually by 目的’s 130 horses off campus, 我们就地堆肥，用作牧场的护根物, 果树, 以及景观美化，以减缓土壤侵蚀, 构建土壤有机质, 改善植物健康, 减少用水量.
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  节约用水

  在奥康河谷，节约用水是当务之急. 以及有针对性的节水工程, 目的 has partnered with Banyan Water to adopt a total water management program. 我们的共同努力，获得了 2018年度环保领袖产品奖， have generated a 56 percent reduction in annual water use from 2013 levels. 节水工程包括, 在宿舍和教师家中安装低流量设备, 升级灌溉系统, 选择性浇水, and the use of greywater from our dormitory laundry machines to irrigate trees (saving up to 550,000加仑的水), 上田区新建节水型运动场, 以及榕树用水监测系统.
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  雨水排水

  A generous grant allowed 目的 to host a greywater workshop for 30 technicians from all over California. The class’s practical project was the design and installation of a 5,000-gallon rainwater harvesting system for half of one of the barn roofs. The program expanded with a catchment system added to the Los Padres sophomore boys dorm, and plans to install rainwater harvesting systems on every 马 Program area roof, 哪一个, 只有3英寸的雨, have the potential to collect all the water the 马 Program uses in a year (600,000加仑).
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  社区外展计划

  环境行动委员会(EAC)致力于连接, 合作, and exchanging ideas with other schools and environmental organizations in the Ojai Valley and beyond. Through the 社区外展计划 they’ve scheduled beach clean-ups, 有组织地铲除河床杂草, 采用了奥康自行车道的一部分, 和更多的.
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  运输船队

  目的 made changes to its transportation fleet in an effort to significantly increase energy efficiency. The School partnered with Enterprise Fleet Leasing and Maintenance Services, 租了一组新的suv和两辆可插电式混合动力车. 通过租赁而不是拥有, 目的可以定期升级到最新版本, 高续航里程SUV车型, 减少燃料的使用量. In the same vein, the C-Max Energi hybrid vehicles have improved our fuel efficiency from 13.9mpg ~ 32mpg. 同样的车队行驶里程, the changes represent just over a 50 percent reduction in transportation greenhouse emissions.
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  的沼泽地

  The 2012–13 Kumana Prize-winning student team made it their goal to rejuvenate Carpenter’s Orchard, an increasingly desiccated six acres on campus that were being used for horse paddocks. This student effort helped establish runoff protection needed to allow the broadcast of compost from our new manure composting project. 第一个堆肥是在2015年5月进行的.
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  鸡

  学生 and 教师 built the campus coop that is now home to a brood of 17 healthy hens. 鸡’ 饮食包括食堂的剩饭剩菜, 反过来, 提供新鲜的, 每周向社区提供可持续生产的鸡蛋.