Nicholas School Career Center is a Certified Green Workplace
69 workplaces including over 1,500 staff are currently certified
The Nicholas School of the Environment's (NSOE) Career & Professional Development Center is the 69th workplace to achieve the Duke Green Workplace Certification. Green Workplace Certification recognizes work areas that formally assess how they are reducing their environmental footprint.
NSOE's Career & Professional Development Center earned certification for seven staff members by completing 45 out of 58 items on the checklist. The department uses desk lamps when possible instead of overhead lighting, turns off computers overnight and set up energy-saving modes on computers and copy machines.
Staff are encouraged to use alternative transportation and use video conferencing to avoid travel when possible. Electronic communications are used rather than printing and, when necessary, printed publications use recycled content or sustainably-harvested wood.
Additionally, the department provides durable nametags made of sustainably-harvested wood to all Nicholas School of the Environment students to avoid disposable nametags throughout their time at Duke.
Duke's Office of Sustainability administers the Duke Green Workplace Certification, which begins when a representative from a work area attends the free "Leading for Environmental Sustainability" workshop. As part of the workshop, participants receive a checklist of sustainable practices ranging from double-sided printing to using eco-friendly dishwashing soap in a break room. A work area that can demonstrate it follows at least 40 of the checklist's 58 items can apply for certification and permission to post the Duke Green Workplace seal in its office and on materials.
View a complete list of certified offices and the actions they completed to earn certification.