How to Do an On-Campus Environmental Audit

Basic Steps for Conducting an Audit

1. Ask purpose and establish goals (See introduction below)

2. Designate teams and scope of assessment

3. Find background and regulatory information (Find help in the introduction below)

4. Decide what areas need to be assessed and what activities need to be completed.  Organize a schedule of tentative dates when these activities should be completed.

5. Develop assessment questions or use the ones provided by Campus Ecology in the power point presentations below, and find the answers via research sources which are also provided below.

6. Perform the necessary tasks to get the answers your questions require

7. Organize and interpret what your findings mean to your campus

8. Find root of problems and think of solutions

9. Write an objective report to present problems and solutions to administration (also see "How to Make a Quality Audit Report" below)

10. Take action; with support you can begin making changes for the betterment of your campus (see "Making Changes" below) 

11. Keep track of progress and cost savings from your solutions to ecological problems

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The following lists contain PowerPoint presentations created by Stephanie Ann Holbrook based on the materials by April A. Smith.  If you would like to view these you can choose to open them (which is the easiest way) or download them (you may choose this option if you would like to show these to a group of people on an overhead for example).  To download, simply choose "save it to disk" and save it where you like; you can open it from there.  If you do not have power point on your computer you can go to www.microsoft.com/downloads/  and download a PowerPoint Viewer for free; download instructions are on the Microsoft web site.

Introduction:

Wastes and Hazards

            Resources and Infrastructure

The Business of Education

Making Change Ways to Conserve Energy Helpful Suggestions for Auditing and How to make a Quality Audit Report Environmentally Sensitive Campuses Credits

Renovation of Breckenridge Hall