College students around the country are joining the green movement and starting campus greening campaigns. Schools like Harvard University have extensive education campaigns and offer great opportunities for its students.
If you’re looking to attend an environmentally friendly college, there is a great article with some considerations from Utne.
At my alma mater of Mary Baldwin College, the college president and students have committed to a “Turn It Off” campaign. This campaign is both a student and college driven initiatives – things students can do around their dorms and also what the college can do to reduce energy usage as a business.
If you think you have a program that should be spotlighted, check out the Alliance to Save Energy and their Green Campus Program.
If your school has a green campus initiative, let us know about it.
The Grass Stain Guru
7 hours ago
3 comments:
A question for you....if a campus has wireless capability for students, faculty and administration is this an energy saver? I realize that one would have to "plug in" their computer but running off a battery must save some kind of energy.
Dear Mom -
When it comes to the energy use of a laptop or desktop to access wireless Internet, a laptop is the way to go. A laptop will use considerably less energy (about 45 watts) vs a desktop (about 200 watts). As with any computer, remember to turn it completely off as it is still using power in it's sleep mode.
This article is very interesting. At my alma mater, Lynchburg College, we have our pride and joy, Schewel Hall where we poured in tons of "green" techonology to make it the most state of the art energy saving building on campus. It had sensors on all the lights as switches so the lights would only be on if there was someone in the room, and would turn off automatically when the room was empty. Another thing we did, my senior year was "year of the environment" were we started up new policies for keeping lights off, recycling, and practicing energy saving techniques with unused computers and classrooms on campus. I've taken this to a point even in my apartment off campus, where my philosphy for anything is "if I'm not using it right now, it needs to be off."
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