Environmental sustainability

​Year 1

• Grenfell's waste management and sustainability committee work includes recycling, composting, social media promotion and lecture series.
• There is extended use of existing campus greenhouse planned, as well as proposals for shared rooftop bio dome cultivation space and pilot three-bay greenhouse using manufacturing waste heat.
• Further energy efficiencies through the Honeywell program save about $290,000 annually and 50,000 tonnes annually
• Single-use plastics have been eliminated from all official campus activities.
• Grenfell Campus is a reporting member of the STAR (Sustainability tracking, assessment and rating system) program.

Year 2

• Sustainability and Waste Management Committees and Facilities Management working to share the existing on-campus greenhouse
• B-FARM proposal has advanced including a rooftop biodome cultivation space and a greenhouse at CNA Corner Brook campus as a shared resource.  
• Recruitment and hiring of key positions into several projects the Marine Bio-Mass Innovation Project has taken place
  
• An energy performance contract was completed.