Welcome to the Green Vivarium Web Site
Our website will serve as a valuable industry resource designed to raise awareness, educate and provide a forum for discussion related to energy savings in the vivarium industry. Links to useful websites, energy saving tips, industry news and other information will continue to be added as our foundation grows. We welcome your input; and encourage your involvement as we raise awareness and create resource tools that help our industry achieve a better balance between energy consumption and research efficacy.
Reduce, Re-Use, Recycle
The Green Vivarium Foundation is officially seeking nominations for our 2010 Green Vivarium Awards. Self-nominations are welcome. Please submit your
nomination forms by September 17, 2010. Winners will be notified by September 27, 2010; the awards ceremony will take place during the 2010 AALAS national meeting on Monday, October 11, from 6:30 – 7:00 pm in the Juniper Room of the Omni Hotel.
The Green Vivarium Foundation Awards recognize efforts by people, product and service companies, and facilities that conserve energy and reduce waste. Demonstrate your commitment to building a greener vivarium by participating. Call or email today for more information. Chery Honiotes, Development Director, choniotes@greenvivarium.org.
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The Green Vivarium Foundation welcomes a new ‘Emerald’ sponsor!
Thank you, LABEX of MA for demonstrating your commitment to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle by sponsoring the Foundation. You can’t get any greener than recycling and re-purposing vivarium equipment, right? Check out LABEX of MA’s sponsorship ad on our Sponsors page.
A great idea from the University of Nebraska
The University of Nebraska, Lincoln is reducing waste – and making money – by composting animal waste. For the second season, Animal Science employees are converting horse apples, poultry poop and small animal excrement into a natural fertilizer and selling it to area gardeners. The reconditioned poo is flying out the door faster than it can be bagged. Read more in the
Scarlet about this innovative program that is reducing waste as well as the University’s carbon footprint.
Did you know the average vivarium consumes five to ten times the energy of a typical office buildng?
Most existing labs can reduce their energy use by more than 30% with just a few simple changes.
Contact The Green Vivarium Foundation for more information.
Our Goals:
1) To support efforts to lower the vivarium industry's impact on the environment, reducing our carbon footprint.
2) Promote practices that provide a secure, 'friendly' environment for animals and their caregivers.
3) Encourage and recognize green initiatives of laboratory animal vivarium (LAV) buildings and operations.
The Green Vivarium Foundation welcomes a new sponsor!
Thank you, Allentown, for demonstrating your commitment to greening up the lab animal vivarium industry by sponsoring the Foundation. Check out Allentown's sponsorship posting on our
Sponsors page.
Demand-based Control of Lab Air Change Rates
In this article published in February, 2010 in ASHRAE Journal, Gordon P. Sharp, Chairman of Aircuity, Inc., states ‘Achieving the safe reduction or variation of air change rates in labs and vivariums
can represent the greatest single approach for reducing their energy consumption and carbon footprint.' Read more about safely reducing and controlling air change rates in labs and vivariums.
Labs for the 21st Century
Labs 21 offers a wealth of energy saving information, best practice guides and case studies. Check out their website today!
http://www.labs21century.gov/toolkit
Want to decrease your facility's carbon footprint by reducing waste?
Ken Kornberg, President and Founder of Kornberg Associates / Architects, is the author of an article that can tell you how:
"Trash talk: Greener ways of handling laboratory waste streams," published in the December 2008 issue of Laboratory Design Newsletter.
Read more...
Trash Talk: Greener ways of handling laboratory waste streams
The 2009 Green Vivarium Awards
Winners 'Dr. Joerg Schmidt, Cindy Hoorn and Bill Purvis
Read more about the 2009 Green Vivarium Award Winners
Nomination deadline: October 1, 2010
Self-nominations welcome
Categories: Best Individual Initiative, Best Facility and Best Product or Service
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