Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 68.39
Liaison Marianne Martin
Submission Date Sept. 22, 2021

STARS v2.2

University of Colorado Boulder
EN-7: Employee Educators Program

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.23 / 3.00 Marianne Martin
Associate Director
Environmental Center
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Part 1. Percentage of employees served by a peer-to-peer, sustainability educators program

Total number of employees:
7,542

Total number of employees served by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program:
9,961

Percentage of employees served by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program:
100

1st program 

Name of the employee educators program (1st program):
Green Office Program

A brief description of the employee educators program (1st program):
The Green Office Program offered through the University's Environmental Center, helps to educate staff who wish to make their work spaces more sustainable. The program trains on sustainable purchasing, sustainable transportation options, and energy, water, and waste reduction strategies. Once an office has been certified, it is the duty of the sustainability liaison(s) within each certified office to train new staff and keep existing staff up to date on best office practices.

A brief description of the employee educators program’s target audience (1st program):
Faculty and Staff in offices on campus

Number of trained employee educators (1st program):
47

Number of weeks the employee educators program is active annually (1st program):
48

Average or expected number of hours worked weekly per trained employee educator (1st program):
0.50

Total number of hours worked annually by trained employee educators (1st program):
1,128

Website URL where information about the employee educators program is available (1st program) :

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2nd Program

Name of the employee educators program (2nd program):
Green Labs Lab Eco-Leader Program

A brief description of the employee educators program (2nd program):
Engage laboratory scientists to volunteer to promote environmental sustainability in their laboratory by taking action to help minimize the use of energy, water, material goods, and hazardous chemicals in their lab and encouraging their fellow lab members to participate in programs offered by the CU Green Labs Program such as contests and established lab-specific recycling opportunities.

A brief description of the employee educators program’s target audience (2nd program):
All research staff and faculty in campus laboratories.

Number of trained employee educators (2nd program):
125

Number of weeks the employee educators program is active annually (2nd program):
52

Average or expected number of hours worked weekly per trained employee educator (2nd program):
0.50

Total number of hours worked annually by trained employee educators (2nd program):
3,250

Website URL where information about the employee educators program is available (2nd program):

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Additional Programs 

A brief description of all other employee peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education programs:
Facilities Management Environmental Services Outreach Program Manager conducts trainings with Facilities Management staff and Building Proctors who receive a one hour sustainabiility training annually. On an on-going basis each proctor can support questions and point employees to relevent resources for sustainabilitty programs.

Number of trained employee educators (all other programs):
1

Number of weeks, on average, the employee educators programs are active annually (all other programs):
48

Average or expected number of hours worked weekly per trained employee educator (all other programs):
10

Total number of hours worked annually by trained employee educators (all other programs):
480

Part 2. Educator hours per employee served by a peer-to-peer program

Grand total number of hours worked annually by trained employee educators (all programs):
4,858

Hours worked annually by trained employee sustainability educators per employee served by a peer-to-peer program:
0.49

Optional Fields

Website URL where information about the employee sustainability educators programs is available:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
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