Going Green

Moravian Hall Square established a CPR for the Environment Committee – Conservation, Preservation, Recycling – to find practical and efficient ways to reduce global warming, conserve natural resources, increase energy conservation and educate ourselves on reducing the impact on our fragile planet from plastic water bottles in landfills to plastic bags killing wildlife on land and sea.

Moravian Hall Square residents and staff have taken on the challenge by finding and using recycled paper products, setting up single stream recycling containers for residents and staff to collect more recyclables, and reducing our use of energy. Styrofoam has virtually been eliminated from the facility. We are making great progress in using electricity at off peak hours; installing motion detector lights in common areas, setting computers to “sleep” when not in use, changing temperature settings a few degrees and turning off lights when leaving rooms. The first three months of encouraging off peak (6 pm-10am) energy use brought a 4.1% decrease.

Another important role of the CPR Committee is to provide education, heighten awareness of the magnitude of this worldwide problem and offer simple tips to residents and staff: using cloth bags instead of plastic for groceries, how to register to stop receiving junk mail, where to buy local produce, how to garden organically, etc.

Here at Moravian Hall Square we will continue to investigate ways to do our part.↑ Back to Top