Nadal, Jacob2025-09-242025-09-242017[Multiple Authors, listed below.] From Gray Areas to Green Areas: Developing Sustainable Practices in Preservation Environments. Symposium Proceedings. Edited by Melissa Tedone. Austin, TX: The Kilgarlin Center for Preservation of the Cultural Record, School of Information, the University of Texas at Austin. 2008. Available at: https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/kilgarlin/gaga/proceedings.html Henry, Michael C. “What Will the Cultural Record Say About Us? The stewardship of culture and the mandate for environmental sustainability.” Himmelstein, Paul and Barbara Appelbaum. “Going Green in Museums: A Conservator's View.” Hioki, Kazuko. “From Japanese Tradition: Is /Kura/ a Model for a Sustainable Preservation Environment?” Joachim Huber. “Sustainability Means Less is More.” Kerschner, Richard L. “Providing Safe and Practical Environments for Cultural Property in Historic Buildings...and Beyond.” Lull, William P. “Sustainable Practices for Conservation Environments.” Pfeiffer, Peter L. “Real and Relevant Green Building” Reilly, James. “Specifying Storage Environments in Libraries and Archives.” Zapalac, Laurie. “From Institutional Mission to Sustainable Outcome: Cultivating Stewardship Through the Planning and Design Process.” Image Permanence Institute. IPI’s Guide to Sustainable Preservation Practices for Managing Storage Environments. Rochester, NY: Rochester Institute of Technology. 2012. Image Permanence Institute. Sustainable Preservation Practices for Managing Storage Environments. 2016. Available at: http://www.ipisustainability.org/ Reily, James. New Tools for Preservation: Assessing Long-Term Environmental Effects on Library and Archives Collections. Published by The Commission on Preservation and Access, 1995. Sebera, Donald K. Isoperms: An Environmental Management Tool. Commission on Preservation and Access, 1994. Available online at: http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/isoperm/isoperm.html.https://repository.ifla.org/handle/20.500.14598/6202ReCAP is engaged in a multi-year project to improve its total preservation impact by providing an excellent preservation environment for library and archival collections in tandem with a reduction in total energy usage, a shift of power consumption towards sustainable sources, reduction of waste materials, and good stewardship of the land under its care. The presentation will review the outcomes of a first phase of work and the planning process underway for an ongoing program. Both efforts focus on the need for keeping costs low and predictable, and aim to achieve this through reduced peak-demand commodity power usage, solar power implementation, water management, soil remediation, and landscape management. This effort builds on the sustainable preservation environments research conducted by Image Permanence Institute and the University of Texas at Austin Gray Areas to Green Areas symposium.engAttribution 4.0 Internationalhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Articlehttps://2016.ifla.org/programme/satellite-meetingsopen accessPreservationConservationStorageSustainabilityEconomics