All Feedback from All Brainstorming Sessions

Creative ideas from room 244:

  1. Implement a Carleton recycling website
  2. reconfigure all printers to duplex as default
  3. Implement the print management software
  4. More/better IT support for online forms/reading/software
  5. THINK before you print!

How can we reduce the volume of printing on campus?

  1. When jobs are printed, be able to locate the source
  2. Turn off printers at night to eliminate “junk printing”
  3. Implement print management software
  4. Don’t print until you have to – use screen views
  5. Print one copy and send emails to everyone else
  6. Scanning
  7. Electronic storage
  8. Routing instead of copies for each person
  9. Make sure all printers can print duplex
  10. Do programs like eReserve really save money?
  11. Printing is too easy
  12. Need more tablet PCs so information is portable
  13. Use iDoc in Financial Aid office for all students
  14. Web time entry for payroll
  15. On line forms
  16. On line benefit enrollment
  17. Athletic schedules, music department notices, bookstore, etc sent via email instead of as a mass mailing
  18. Staff meeting agendas on a white board instead of printed
  19. Use back sides of printed materials for scratch paper
  20. Use Printing & Mailing whenever possible
  21. Charge for printing and copying
  22. Professors allowing papers to be submitted and read electronically
  23. Financial Aid award letters, admission acceptance letters, etc. on line instead of printed
  24. Identify where we generate the most paper and brainstorm ways to change that

What are some of the benefits of reducing paper on campus?

  1. Less paper to deal with on clean-up day
  2. Fewer file cabinets and storage space needed - more space for offices and teaching
  3. Easier access for more people to same information if it is electronic
  4. Faster location of documents
  5. Visual – less clutter with less paper
  6. Keep up with the rest of the world
  7. Decreased costs (purchase less paper and fewer printers, copiers & toner)
  8. Save the trees

What do YOU recycle/reuse/reduce at work?

  1. Print on both sides
  2. Use recycled paper
  3. Tray for “used” paper
  4. Draft copies printed as two pages on one
  5. Folders, boxes, files must be returned for reuse
  6. Mailing envelopes
  7. Add labels to envelopes that have no more space to write on
  8. Print draft versions of color documents in black and white
  9. Recycled paper for notes - take used paper to Printing and Mailing and have them bound into note pads

What things could you stop doing to reduce consumption?

  1. Think twice before printing
  2. Print preview
  3. Don’t print emails
  4. Print duplex
  5. Find new printers that are more efficient & can print duplex
  6. Print on scratch paper
  7. Make sure that recyclable items go in the recycling bin and not the garbage (custodial services too)
  8. Stop throwing away recyclable items
  9. Use rechargeable batteries
  10. Create a message that asks if you REALLY want to print when you hit print

What can you reuse?

  1. Slightly used batteries
  2. File folders
  3. Envelopes
  4. Paper (make it into scratch paper)
  5. Boxes that paper comes in
  6. Corrugated boxes for returns to vendors

What can we do differently as a larger group to reduce/reuse/recycle if money was not an object?

  1. Can the PCW be a higher percent?
  2. Training – what is recyclable, etc.
  3. Educate students on the numbers
  4. Create a college website dedicated to recycling ideas and information
  5. Need a space in each building for storage of boxes that could be used later
  6. Notebook PCs for everyone
  7. Software development
  8. Overhead projections for all conference rooms
  9. Multiple/larger computer monitors to be able to view more than one item at a time
  10. Professors allowing/requiring papers to be submitted and read electronically
  11. Find a better way to read items on the computer
  12. Change the mindset that paper is the only way to go
  13. Everyone should have email and access to it
  14. Give every student a computer
  15. Electronic bulletin boards
  16. NNB, Carletonian, etc. electronically instead of printed

Creative ideas from room CS Room

  1. Quota with a charge on excess printing
  2. Reduce paper and plastic products
  3. Contest to save money, recycle more, saved money will go to the winner in the form of a hybrid car
  4. Electronic filing
  5. Electronic message board/events in strategic areas
  1. Jobs proofread in printing area before submitting
  2. Stop SPAM on fax machines
  3. Reducing mailing not stuffers etc
  4. Less mailings
  5. Money cost savings
  6. Environment impact
  7. Less stress filing and storage issues
  8. Campus mail envelopes
  9. Old stationary into notepads
  10. Wash dishes not paper plates
  11. Real napkins non disposable
  12. Sodexo sell reusable mugs/promote them/give to students
  13. Take one sided paper reused – refeed printer
  14. route periodical eliminate numbers
  15. eliminate the Elements
  16. deeper not broader information issued
  17. reusable brown bags for lunches
  18. mechanical pencils
  19. reuse gift wrap and Christmas cards
  20. our own recycling center
  21. better transportation on campus
  22. reduce events on campus
  23. change out perception of what we need
  24. wind farms
  25. transportation
  26. too many all campus mailing
  27. use older office furniture

Creative ideas from room 345

  1. Use more electronic ways to disseminate communication
  • on and off campus mailings (Elements, invitations, etc.)
  • opt-outs for faculty /staff (Calendar, etc.)
  • flash drives for ‘take home’ reading
  • Create online ‘letterhead’ templates
  • utilize campus projection screens, tickers, etc. to disseminate information
  • ½ size letterhead for things that don’t need a full page
  1. OnBase electronic document management system
  • Training on usage, security, retrievability
  • Minimize need for paper files
  • Encourage program to expand across campus
  1. Utilize offices that need one-sided recycled paper (MathSkillsCenter)
  2. Change workhabits of students
  • Do you need to print this? Prompt
  • Electronic projection screens NNB in LDC, Burton, and Snack Bar, Library Lobby
  • Utilize 5th Year ENTS intern for recycling initiative
  • NSW orientation program to inform on paper use and recycling on campus
  • Save all recycled paper and create an art project on the Bald Spot
  • Track printing / copying so people can benchmark their use

5Challenge (similar to Energy use last year) as an incentive between faculty, students, staff and possibly versus St. Olaf

Other Ideas

  1. Allow campus departments to promote via email rather than paper
  2. Departmental newsletters on web or email
  3. Fewer meeting = fewer minutes to generate
  4. Being open to new ways to do things
  5. Annual policies online
  6. Electronic timecards
  7. More multi-media capabilities on classrooms and meeting rooms
  8. Encourage vendors to rewrite reports to minimize printing
  9. Change margin standards
  10. Laptops for all!
  11. Utilize 5th Year ENTS intern for recycling initiative
  12. Pool efforts among student groups
  13. One printer per building
  14. Purchase recycled toilet paper
  15. Encourage students to print less, share printed copies
  16. Charge students for printing
  17. Display the wasted printing in various offices
  18. Make a paper building
  19. Paper bale
  20. Stop refilling toner cartridges
  21. One day a week is ‘no print’ day
  22. Better computer monitors to encourage
  23. Change work habits and mindset that paper is always needed
  24. Electronic contracts
  25. Electric hand driers
  26. More widely distribute full Adobe package to people can send .pdf files
  27. Find more ways to virtually distribute information
  28. Don’t send holiday party invitations through the mail
  29. Departments self-analyze what NEEDS to be printed

Creative ideas from room 335

  1. Creating a campus-wide unity of thought and unity of purpose and unity of action that needs to be ongoing and sustainable. (Education with accountability of College Community.)
  2. Print management software and equipment in place to monitor/track/limit.
  3. Friendly competition and recognition on % change in reducing, reusing, and recycling (within and without, i.e., St. Olaf).
  4. Assess and modify paper processes with electronic processes when possible.
  • Paperless receipts
  • Timecards
  • Acknowledgments of gifts
  • Admissions
  • Greater use of Onbase (electronic document system)
  1. Eliminate paper redundancies.

NO PAPER DRESSES!!! Unless it’s your meeting agenda.

  1. Send notices to offices, not to each individual. (i.e., building holiday party)
  2. Top ten list of paper use per person in a department. Be competitively proactive. % of change, not useage.
  3. Establish quotas for student printing. Tie in with the Onecard system.
  4. Warning/prompt on computers to ask if the project is over a certain # of pages. Install print management software.
  5. Educate people on printing. Two sheets/per page, 4-up, etc. Tip sheet/prompts on the computer. Computer staff go to each person and train.
  6. Timesheets on line.
  7. All printers should be able to duplex.
  8. Get ahead of St. Olaf in paper use reduction (competition w/other colleges)
  9. Turn in homework electronically. Comments on papers electronically. Train faculty to use software.
  10. Used envelope central location
  11. Use-specific envelopes/paper should be re-used. Make into notepads.
  12. Re-do processes using Onbase.
  13. Kudos in C@C for reducing/reusing paper.
  14. Reusable cups/plates. Bring your own cup. Use recyclable cups.

Benefits

  1. Lower costs.
  2. Reduce clutter
  3. Save trees
  4. Reduce landfills
  5. Reduce smell
  6. Save natural resources
  7. Won’t need to purchase so much equipment
  8. Time saving – e-mail
  9. NO PAPER DRESSES!!!
  10. No lugging paper across campus. Potential workers’ comp

What do I recycle?

  1. One-sided paper. Use back side for printing/note taking
  2. Shred and recycle all paper.
  3. All printers set to duplex
  4. Envelopes for campus mail
  5. E-mail updates to CR to Cindy G. She will virtual print into the Onbase system.
  6. Remove name from mailing lists. (i.e., catalogs, junk mail, etc.) Have your student workers call to remove from lists. Central location where students could do this work.
  7. Electronic versions of periodicals.
  8. Take back your space type of day. Reduce your paper junk mail day.
  9. Route periodicals.
  10. Use paper on campus in some way? Share recycled paper with Montessori school or other schools? Encourage recycling – publicity.

What could we stop doing to reduce

  1. Read in electronic form. Rotate monitor to be 8 ½ x 11 inches
  2. Wireless internet everywhere. Bring a laptop for notes, etc.
  3. Meeting rooms should have access to collab files.
  4. USB flash drives to carry info around campus and to home.
  5. Maintenance crew had blackberries to have access. Nextel phones.
  6. Use purchasing card. Don’t use paper copy receipts. Can we send receipts via e-mail. Virtual print into onbase and send to the Business office.
  7. Financial Aid – IDOC. Send to us electronically. First year applicants
  8. Address security issues so people feel safe using on-line forms, etc.
  9. Form a committee to review security issues.
  10. Check out of cheap laptops. Use laptops to take work home/elsewhere to reduce printing of documents.

What can we do differently to reduce/reuse/recycle if money no option?

  1. Laptop checkouts for staff/faculty
  2. Educate – printing isn’t free
  3. Encourage each other to reduce
  4. Be honest with yourself – what will you really be able to read?
  5. Provide print accounting so we can self-regulate our own use.
  6. Forms available in colleague so we benefits forms can be completed on-line and sent in to Human Resources.
  7. Is our current software the best choice? Are other software options more interactive with the programs we need?
  8. Recognition program for departments and individuals who are doing well with reducing and reusing. Not a paper prize!! (unless it’s money)

Do not print agenda. Project agenda instead of printing.

Creative ideas from room 302

  1. Move to paperless work flow between offices. More scanning of documents.
  2. Charge for paper use – give a certain number for free and then charge.
  3. Have places on campus where people go to look for information (screens around campus or office bulletin boards – with SNACKS?) Do we really need all the paper notices we get from other offices on campus?
  4. Set duplex as the default on all printers – or half sheets.
  5. Develop a criterion for determining valid uses of paper at the Administrative Council level and implement from the top down.
  1. Stop providing paper at workshops. Share agendas and handouts – communicate who’s bringing what
  2. Ask people whether they want a printed copy or let them know what options they have for obtaining the information
  3. Take the money from charging for paper and use it to plant trees
  4. Re-use paper printed on one side
  5. Put more things like manuals on line
  6. Refine printing options (print two pages of an article instead of the whole thing)
  7. Use PDF readers
  8. Stop printing NNB on paper
  9. Stop printing paystubs
  10. Why are students printing so much stuff in the Library? Can they access these materials elsewhere?
  11. Improved screens for reading materials
  12. Make an effort to stress community over convenience
  13. Rewards for people who don’t consume a lot of paper
  14. Maybe we have too many printers
  15. Make all printers in students areas print only between 6 a.m. and noon
  16. Student papers submitted electronically rather than on paper
  17. Educational campaign on the advantages of using technology rather than paper
  18. Implement virtual printers
  19. Forms – do more electronically
  20. More training on e-mail options so you can eliminate printing them
  21. Learn other alternatives for saving documents from the web
  22. Print two-up
  23. Have a Carleton recycling center
  24. Provide everyone with an LDC screen
  25. Provide everyone with a laptop with a completely wireless campus
  26. Purchase the workflow options for our current software
  27. Get good quality recycled paper to encourage those who use virgin paper to switch
  28. Give people option of getting things on paper or electronically
  29. Don’t make copies of things that someone else already has
  30. Put something on IT website listing general tips re: printing options to consider
  31. Eliminate the Elements booklet (and/or other things like this) – make sure people know what things you don’t want
  32. PR – make it sound cooler to not have a paper copy
  33. Condensing powerpoint presentations
  34. Improve search or index capabilities of the website
  35. Collaborate with St. Olaf
  36. Designated time to review all the material we receive

Creative ideas from room 104

  1. “Sphere of Influence” sign at each work station
  2. Forum for technology challenges (Onbase, imaging)
  3. Be aware of number of copies and cost for each mailing (do not print more than needed)—reduce number of mailings
  4. Educate everyone on how to send/manage information electronically
  5. Two printers on campus—open tunnels to access the printers
  6. Interoffice competition
  7. Educate each department on how much paper they are actually using. Many people do not know the numbers.
  1. Email newsletters or pdf file notices
  2. Make note pads of unused paper or letterhead
  3. Create a small sign of “awareness” to recycle—post at each work station
  4. Give students an allowance of paper usage and charge them for additional paper usage
  5. Policy of awareness use of paper on campus
  6. Create a Tree garden, Muriel of trees on campus
  7. How many pounds of paper create a tree—then plant a tree somewhere on campus
  8. Colorful bound reused campus paper books
  9. Departments to all have duplex printers
  10. Image forms and print only when needed
  11. Better usage data
  12. Inform department of their own paper usage
  13. Origami
  14. Involve students in conservation and recycling
  15. Update software capabilities (fit documents on one page),
  16. Reduce quality of paper
  17. Have recycle logo on copy paper
  18. Celebrate how well we have done
  19. Policy for upgrading equipment
  20. Stories of recycle awareness

Creative ideas from room 330

  1. Educate staff/students through orientation on College paper use/recycling and how they can play an important role.
  2. Rewarding – set department paper usage goals– communicate great ideas and examples throughout campus.
  3. Be a department advocate.
  4. Greater use of electronic communication: scanning, email, text messaging, Collab, and Moodle.
  5. Encourage duplexing
  1. No Annual Report (mailing) – website – give people a choice of whether or not to receive
  2. VOICE – streamline the mailing lists (no duplicate mailings)
  3. Moodle (academic) – more campus wide use
  4. Recycle one-sided copies and print on blank side (ie, faxes)
  5. Contact people you receive unwanted faxes from to get off their list
  6. Use of blue bins – more bins
  7. Education/share where files are stored
  8. Charge for excess usage (students)
  9. Timesheets for students and staff online / electronic pay-stubs
  10. Wider use of OnBase
  11. Online usage
  12. Reuse envelopes
  13. Sending invitations electronically (ie, holiday or event invites)
  14. Text messaging students
  15. Clean up days for email – colab