Ryan Weeks-Rutan | Green Labs Specialist, Office of Sustainability
Johns Hopkins University

Day 2: 16th October @ 14:20

Holistic Freezer Practices: How closing freezer doors can open windows to sustainability

For nearly 5 years, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has been using freezer monitoring software to track temperature, door openings, and energy use for hundreds of ultra-low temperature freezers. Utilizing this data, JHU sustainability and facilities staff were able to identify outliers, including freezers consuming too much energy, underutilized freezers, and freezers that were being operated incorrectly. This presentation will examine how staff sifted through freezer monitoring data to identify these outlying units and the steps they took to reduce their energy consumption. 

Ryan Weeks-Rutan, Sr. Sustainability Specialist, Green Labs & Zero Waste, Johns Hopkins University

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Ryan Weeks-Rutan / Holistic Freezer Practices: How closing freezer doors can open windows to sustainability

Ryan Weeks-Rutan, Sr. Sustainability Specialist, Green Labs & Zero Waste,
Johns Hopkins University

Ryan is the Senior Sustainability Specialist for Green Labs/Zero Waste at Johns Hopkins University. He leads the JHU Green Labs Program and uses his research background to support JHU's campuses in fostering a culture of sustainability in research and teaching labs and promoting JHU's...

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