Greening Your Museum

Encouraging Conservation in Oklahoma
ECO was created to promote, encourage and develop sustainable travel practices in Oklahoma. Through a dynamic partnership between the Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department and the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality, the ECO program offers the education, certification and marketing support businesses need to provide effective sustainable travel practices economically.  Visit their website at http://eco.oklatourism.gov/

Interested in ECO Certification?  Take a look at the checklist which serves as the self assessment for attractions, including museums and galleries:  http://www.ecotravelok.com/index.php?id=7  More information can be found at http://eco.oklatourism.gov/guidelines.aspx

ECO travel tips can be found at http://www.ecotravelok.com/index.php?id=4
ECO resources can be found at http://eco.oklatourism.gov/connect.aspx


Green Museums Initiative
The California Associaiton of Museums has a Green Museums Initiative.  You are encouraged to read their information at http://www.calmuseums.info/gmi/index.html

The Oklahoma Museums Associaiton offers the following book in the free lending library:  The Green Museum:  A Primer on Environmental Practice.  For more information on the lending library, visit http://www.okmuseums.org/programs-services/publications-technical-bulletins/

The following is a list of additional green resources for museums:
http://www.midwestmuseums.org/green_practices.html
http://greenmuseums.wetpaint.com/?t=anon
http://www.aza.org/green-practices/
http://www.aam-us.org/pubs/mn/chronicleenergy.cfm
http://www.aam-us.org/pubs/mn/green.cfm
http://www.greenexhibits.org/begin/index.shtml
http://www.astc.org/pubs/dimensions/2003/nov-dec/index.htm
http://www.aam-us.org/pubs/mn/MN_SO06_easy-green.cfm

 

A Few Guiding Principles On Going Green……

~No one goes Green all at once

~No one goes all Green anyway

~Let go of the guilt: in interferes with progress

~You don’t have to build to be Green

~Once you start, it just gets easier

~First thing you do- get and energy audit