While preparing for back to school, Lawrence Woodmere Academy leveraged Green Standards’ program to revitalize their library and communal spaces, thanks to donated furniture from our client Adobe.
Helping Others in Need
Based in Long Island, the school’s library building needed some updates to allow for the students and faculty to collaborate in a comfortable and welcoming space that also allowed for social distancing. Having already joined Green Standards Charitable Network, the school’s headmaster Brian O’Connell was able to request furniture from the Adobe project we had underway nearby.
Social & Environmental Impact
Green Standards and Adobe have worked together since 2012 to sustainably decommission furniture and equipment from Adobe’s office spaces across the US and Canada. The main objective of this partnership has been to achieve the greatest possible environmental and community impact through coordinated in-kind donation.
Through our program, Adobe has diverted more than 1,000 tons of office furniture and equipment from landfill while supporting 153 non-profits with in-kind furniture donations.
Supporting a Circular Economy
By the end of 2016, over 98 percent of Adobe’s licensed products were delivered digitally, effectively eliminating their physical supply chain and drastically reducing the amount of waste produced by their business. For the waste they do generate from their office footprint or elsewhere, Adobe works with partners, including Green Standards to responsibly divert it from ever reaching landfill and prioritize re-use whenever possible.
While the path to a circular economy is a long one, Adobe and Green Standards are doing our best to push it forward.
“Green Standards provides a turnkey approach and we use them to review our inventories and bid out the removal. We also get a report that gives us clear information on the value of the donations and non-profits that received the equipment and furnishings.”
Justina Hyland
Senior Manager of Headquarters Site Operations
Adobe
Lawrence Woodmere Academy
“Library spaces should no longer be silent venues, but dynamic centers of idea generation based on information and knowledge acquisition for the purpose of engaging and exchanging creative and innovative ideas. We are grateful for Green Standards and our own crew of dedicated workers who made this transformation happen.”
Brian O’Connell, Headmaster at Lawrence Woodmere Academy
About
About Lawrence Woodmere Academy
Lawrence Woodmere Academy “LWA” is a co-educational, non-religious, elite private college preparatory school.
LWA comprises pre-school through 12th grade students with a current enrollment of 275 students and approximately 52 full-time faculty and two part-time teachers comprising three divisions: Lower, Middle, and Upper schools.
The school culture is marked by a commitment to a global perspective within a school community that is racially, ethnically, and socio-economically diverse. There is a deliberate effort focused on addressing the individual needs of students through a flexible curriculum and a devoted faculty. There is a proactive pursuit of support and input from parents and alumni in shaping the goals of the school.
The school’s mission is distilled into three core values: truth, integrity, and service, and the tag line which bespeaks the school’s global curriculum and philosophy is “at home with the world.”
About Green Standards
Capturing Value In Workplace Change
Green Standards has spent the last decade developing rigorous practices and global networks that deliver optimal value from workplace decommissioning. Our enterprise program measures and maximizes ESG performance while virtually eliminating landfill waste. A partner to the world’s largest organizations, Green Standards enables the efficient and ethical redistribution of furniture, fixtures, and equipment (FF&E) during times of workplace change.
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