June 21, 2012 Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens

1. June 21, 2012Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens Smart Energy Use for a Healthier Business Climate and Clean Air

2. 2012 C4S Air Quality Series Planning Committee Phyllis Barber Sustainability Coordinator Environmental Management Highmark Thomas Batroney Hatch Mott McDonald Rachel Filippini Executive Director Group Against Smog and Pollution (GASP) Scott Golla Principal Environmental Engineer Westinghouse Electric Company LLC Gonzalo Manchego Small Business Development Center Duquesne University Jayme Graham Air Quality ManagerAllegheny County Health Department Michelle Naccarati-Chapkis Executive Director Women for a Healthy Environment Allison Robinson Director, Environmental Initiatives UPMC Heather Sage Vice President Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future Aurora Sharrard Director of Innovation Green Building Alliance 2

3. Standings as of June 21, 2012 Leaderboard Update

4. 2011-2012 Green Workplace Challenge Oversight Committee Beth Edwards General Manager Mall at Robinson Rachel Filippini Executive Director Group Against Smog and Pollution (GASP) Christina French Owner Table Magazine Aftyn Giles Sustainability Coordinator City of Pittsburgh Scott Golla Principal Environmental Engineer Westinghouse Electric Company LLC Scott Matthews Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering Carnegie Mellon Michelle Naccarati-Chapkis Executive Director Women for a Healthy Environment Joyce O’Connor Principal Cardinal Resources LLC William O’Rourke Duquesne University Aurora Sharrard Director of Innovation Green Building Alliance Nagaraj Sivasubramaniam Associate Professor of Leadership Palumbo-Donahue School of Business Duquesne University

5. Who’s Participating? Large Business (1000+ employees) • Bayer • BNY Mellon • Highmark Inc. • The PNC Financial Services Group • UPMC

6. Medium Business (50-999 employees) • Del Monte Foods • DMI Companies • Eaton Corporation • Massaro Corporation • Michael Baker Corporation • Oxford Development Company • WESCO Distribution Inc. • WESCO Distribution Inc. – Warrendale

7. Small Business (<50 employees) • Backstage Alpaca • Environmental Planning and Design, LLC • evolveEA • Indovina Associates Architects • Industrial Energy Engineering • Numeritics • OMNI Associates • Pashek Associates, Ltd. • Peter Margittai Architects, LLC • Schwartz Market • Sullivan & Sullivan Consulting, LLC • Sweet & Sons, Inc.

8. Observers • ACTION-Housing, Inc. • ACTION-Housing, Inc. – Pittsburgh Green House • Allegheny Conference on Community Development • Allegheny County • Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management • Bike Pittsburgh • Cardinal Resources LLC • Carnegie Mellon University • Community Design Center of Pittsburgh • Constellation Energy • Global Links • Green Building Alliance • Greensolve LLC • North Side Christian Health Center • Oakland Planning and Development Corporation • Over The Bar Bicycle Café • Pennsylvania Resources Council • Perkins Eastman • Pittsburgh Green Innovators • Pittsburgh Opera • Pittsburgh Regional Center for Science Teachers • Turtle Creek Valley Council of Governments • University of Pittsburgh – Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation • Victim Outreach Intervention Center

13. What have the GWC Participants Accomplished from September 2011 – April 2012?

14. Total Energy Saved 19,102,725 kWh

15. 1662 US Households’ Annual Electricity Usage + More than all of the homes in Regent Square (543), and Friendship (1072) for a year

16. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduced 8896 MtCO2e

17. 222 Airline Flights Of 500 miles 1.5 days worth of all flights leaving Pittsburgh Intl. on a typical day

18. Amount of Water Saved 48,805,660 gal

19. Water used in 514 typical US households in year

20. Other Air Pollutants Reduced

21. Most-Performed Actions in the Competition • 1 – Create an ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager account, and give read-only access to GWC staff (4 pts) • 2 – Establish a baseline for your electric usage in Portfolio Manager, and share with GWC staff (8 pts) • 3 – Establish a baseline for your natural gas usage in Portfolio Manager, and share with GWC staff (4 pts) • 4 – Establish a baseline for your water usage in Portfolio Manager, and share with GWC staff (4 pts) • 5 – Include utility costs in Portfolio Manager updates (1 pt per utility type) • 11 – Dedicate a staff member as the primary contact for sustainability in your organization (1 pt) • 12 – Create and distribute a green newsletter to your employees (1 pt) • 32 – Provide bike racks or bike storage (2 pts) • 6 – Use Portfolio Manager to develop a carbon emissions inventory of your building portfolio (5 pts) • 10 – Create an internal green team (1 pt)

22. 7 – Achieve energy usage reductions from your baseline • 8 – Achieve water usage reductions from your baseline • 5% reduction = 10 pts (2 pts for each percentage reduction up to 5%) • 10% reduction = 25 pts (3 pts for additional percentage reductions up to 10%) • 20% reduction = 65 pts (4 pts for additional percentage reductions beyond 10%) • 16 – Purchase green power from a renewable energy source • 5 points for every 10% of total power usage purchased (over a period of at least 5 consecutive months) • 100% purchased for 5 months = 50 points • 100% purchased for 10 months = 100 points • 35 – Purchase CO2 offsets for your company • 5 points for every 10% of natural gas usage offset (over a period of at least 5 consecutive months) • 100% offset for 5 months = 50 points • 100% offset for 10 months = 100 points Actions that Generated the Most Points 22

23. Workshop #10: Water Conservation Save the Date: Friday, July 27, 2012 Registration: 8:30 am Details: http://greenchallenge.c4spgh.org 23

25. October 19, 2012: Transportation Workshop: Cleaner Air and Better Business (Odyssey Day) • October 19, 2012: Transportation Workshop: Cleaner Air and Better Business (Odyssey Day) • December 6, 2012: Employee Actions for Better Business and Cleaner Air Future Workshops: