GreenExhibits.org website and checklist

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Intended Audience

“Exhibition designers and fabricators.”

Madison Children’s Museum

2005

“This site provides museum exhibit designers and fabricators a resource for designing and building exhibits and environments that best support healthy spaces and a healthier future for kids and the environment.” (home)

“Several leading children's museums have begun employing green practices in their operations, expansion projects, and exhibit environments. Others have adopted sustainability as a major institutional value, and have begun employing architects and builders to design green buildings that can serve as teaching tools themselves. While the field of green design is rapidly expanding with many new resources on sustainable building, this is one of few sites that focuses solely on nontoxic museum exhibits and environments for children.” (Begin)

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The resource is most closely linked to SDG 12.6 (adopt sustainable practices and reporting), 4.A (safe and inclusive learning spaces) and 11.7 (safe and inclusive green and public spaces). It also supports a number of targets around the sustainable use of natural resources (SDG 12.2), preventing water pollution (SDG 6.3), reducing the environmental impact of cities (SDG 11.6), managing chemicals and wastes (SDG 12.4), reducing waste generation (SDG 12.5); SDG 12.7 (sustainable procurement), SDG 13.3 (contributing to climate action), reducing marine pollution (SDG 14.1), supporting sustainable use of natural resources (SDG 15.1), and timber in particular (SDG 15.2). The checklist can be applied to new building and exhibit development, supporting SDG 9.1, and to existing buildings and exhibits to retrofit them, supporting SDG 9.4.

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SDG 4.A: Build and Upgrade Inclusive and Safe Schools
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Number and proportion of education facilities that are child, disability and gender sensitive.
Proportion of education facilities that provide safe, non-violent, inclusive and effective learning environments for all.
Number and type of initiatives to improve effectiveness of learning environments.
Support given to other education facilities to make them more inclusive and effective.
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SDG 6.3: Improve Water Quality, Wastewater Treatment and Safe Reuse
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Amount of pollutants, and reduction in pollutants, to water systems.
Plans in place for the identification, reduction, replacement and recycling of hazardous chemical and materials, to prevent their release into water systems, with plans to eliminate their use as soon as possible.
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SDG 9.1: Develop Sustainable, Resilient and Inclusive Infrastructures
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Development of research-useful collections to support reliable, sustainable and resilient use by researchers and others.
Number and proportion of collections facilities and stores that support economic development and human well-being.
Number and proportion of collections facilities and stores that provide affordable and equitable access for all.
Investment in collections facilities.
Inclusion of collections information in regional and transborder initiatives, notably via digital access for discoverability.
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SDG 9.4: Upgrade All Industries and Infrastructures for Sustainability
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Number and proportion of collections facilities that make efficient use of resources, with an ongoing drive for efficiencies and reductions in energy use and waste of all forms.
Number and proportion of collections facilities that use clean and environmentally sound technologies, including climate-friendly energy sources and materials, with an ongoing commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and waste of all forms.
Number and proportion of collections facilities that adopt and/or prioritise collections-related processes and practices to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and waste of all forms.
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SDG 11.6: Reduce the Environmental Impact of Cities
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Plans in place to reduce negative impacts on air quality, and volume and forms of waste.
Plans in place to eliminate waste of all forms as soon as possible.
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SDG 11.7: Provide Access to Safe and Inclusive Green and Public Spaces
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Numbers of people accessing collecting institutions from different demographic groups, notably women, children, older people and persons with disabilities.
Increases in numbers of people accessing collecting institutions from different demographic groups.
Measures taken to remove barriers to access green and public spaces.
Extent of green space provided by collections institutions.
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SDG 12.2: Sustainable Management and Use of Natural Resources
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Reduction of material footprint in terms of reductions in consumption of biomass, fossil fuels, metal ores and non-metal ores.
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SDG 12.4: Responsible Management of Chemicals and Waste
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Quantities, and reduction in quantities, of chemicals of all kinds, including chemicals used in maintenance of collections facilities, and chemicals used in care and preparation of collections, and all wastes throughout their life cycle, reducing release to air, water and soil.
Plans in place to eliminate the use and release of hazardous chemicals and harmful wastes of all kinds into the natural environment as soon as possible.
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SDG 12.5: Substantially Reduce Waste Generation
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Quantity and reductions in quantity of waste of all kinds, including avoidance/prevention of waste production, reuse, and recycling. Quantity of material recycled in comparison with quantity sent to landfill. Increases in recycling rate in comparison with landfill.
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SDG 12.6: Encourage Companies to Adopt Sustainable Practices and Sustainability Reporting
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Clear visions, strategies and plans in place for all aspects of sustainability – environmental, social and economic (people, planet, prosperity)- across all areas of activity.
Visions, strategies and plans relating to sustainability to be publicly available and incorporated into planning documents.
Commitments to be in line with local, regional, national and/or international targets and ambitions.
Incorporation of sustainability into reporting for funders and other stakeholders, including the public. Reporting to include commitments and progress towards targets.
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SDG 12.7: Promote Sustainable Public Procurement Practices
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Incorporation of sustainability considerations into procurement, in terms of advertisement and invitation to tender, contracts, and selection criteria for suppliers.
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SDG 13.3: Build Knowledge and Capacity to Meet Climate Change
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Plans in place to enhance positive contributions to addressing climate change through use of collections. Plans in place to ensure collections, collections institutions and broader society can adapt effectively to climate change.
Plans in place for effective education and awareness raising on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning.
Plans in place to reduce negative contributions of collections-related functions, e.g. measuring greenhouse emissions with plans and targets in place to reduce them.
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SDG 14.1: Reduce Marine Pollution
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Number of collections-related programmes, for example research and education, that aim to reduce marine pollution.
Quantity, and reduction, of waste of all sorts, with plans in place to eliminate waste of all sorts as soon as possible.
Quantity, and reduction, of plastic waste, with plans in place to eliminate the production and release of plastic waste as soon as possible.
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SDG 15.1: Conserve and Restore Terrestrial and Freshwater Ecosystems
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Proportion of terrestrial and inland freshwater systems in a good ecological condition.
Information on, educational programmes, collections development, research and partnerships relating to terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems drawing on collections in place.
Policies relating to collections and their use aligned with international agreements for conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity.
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SDG 15.2: End Deforestation and Restore Degraded Forests
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Proportion of forests in a good ecological condition.
Information on, programmes relating to, collections development, and partnerships relating to forests drawing on collections in place, to support their protection and effective functioning.
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