Proposal | Description | Proposed by | Award | Year |
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Hire a consultant to run a detailed WCS on campus to collect valuable information about our waste streams and set baselines for waste reduction and diversion progress to be measured against. | Corey Berman | $50,000 | 2024 | |
¶¶Òõ̽̽ Bikes will offer a series of workshops teaching students to build thier own bicycle using reclaimed parts. Workshops will target underserved students. | Jake Muldoon, Theo Packard, Abby Bleything | $6316.88 | 2024 | |
1,500 reusable menstrual cups given away during Earth Week 2023 and at ¶¶Òõ̽̽ Identity Centers alongside education materials to reduce waste and promote hygeine equity. | Erin Adams | $14,000 | 2023 | |
A box truck converted into a tiny house was displayed on campus during Earth Week followed by a documentary about the building proccess and "reuse" lifestye.Ìý | Annie Boudreau | $4,507 | 2022 | |
Water filtration system that would allow the ¶¶Òõ̽̽ Biofiber lab to reuse their wastewater. Engineering students will design and install the filtration system as a capstone project in coordination with students in the lab. | Steve Kostell | $16,500 | 2022 | |
Pilot addition of rolling carts to the Davis Center and Residence Hall front desk loaning programs to help students carry items around and beyond campus without a car (ex: grocery shopping).Ìý | David Brantly | $3,240 | 2022 | |
Campus Salt Reduction Environmental Impact Monitoring and Mitigation Prototyping | Continuing the research and monitoring of water salinity being done by students involved and creating a prototype for a heated walkway as an alternative to salt usage. | ¶¶Òõ̽̽ Salt Reduction Task Force | $35,570 | 2022 |
Time for Net Zero Energy Buildings on ¶¶Òõ̽̽’s Campus | Internship to gather information on what RSENR has done to make Aiken and Bittersweet as energy efficient as possible, how past funding has contributed to this work, student opinions on the creation of Net Zero buildings, and the institutional/environmental necessity of creating NZE buildings on campus. | Student group led by Gary Hawley | $3,615 | 2022 |
Switching Campus to Sustainable T-Shirt Purchasing | Internship designed to evaluate the current details of ¶¶Òõ̽̽'s T-Shirt purchasing budget, plan, and related information and design a path forward to make more sustainable purchases for giveaways for students. | Marie Bouffard | $1,870 | 2021 |
Adaptability Internship: On Campus garment Waste Mitigation | Internship focused on educating the student body about the environmental harm associated with fast fashion and on conducting research as to possible tracks to mitigate ¶¶Òõ̽̽'s campus waste of garments. | Emma Wardell | $1,664 | 2021 |
Zero Waste Video "Shorts" | Internship to generate short form content to spread information about and excitement for zero waste habits. | Corey Berman | $4,000 | 2021 |
Campus Salt Reduction Pilot Studies | Involve student interns in monitoring water salinity throughout the year and investigate alternate methods of keeping walkways safe in winter without damaging ecosystems or infrastructure. | ¶¶Òõ̽̽ Salt Reduction Task Force | $40,050 | 2021 |
Carbon Offset Resource Internship: Phase II | Internship to promote the use of carbon offset options by ¶¶Òõ̽̽ students | Isabel Coppola,ÌýAmy Seidl | Ìý$900 | 2020 |
¶¶Òõ̽̽ Sustainability Information Accumulation Internship | Internship focused on centralizing sustainability data on the Office of Sustainability website | Cyrus Oswald,ÌýIsabel Coppola, Olivia Lopez | Ìý$3,960 | 2020 |
Curating the Conversation on Clean Energy and Climate at ¶¶Òõ̽̽: A Digital Media Internship | Student producedÌýÌýon clean energy and climate at ¶¶Òõ̽̽ | Josie Friedman | Ìý$3,950 | 2019 |
Carbon Offset Resource Internship | Ìý | Will Corcoran | $1,650 | 2019 |
Clean Energy Storytelling & Data Collection | A project that worked to catalog the history of the Sustainable Campus Fund, then called the Clean Energy Fund. It resulted in the story map which you can see . | Richard Watts, Sophie Smith | $11,160 | 2019 |
Energy Action Seminar | Ìý | Mark Usher | $30,000 | 2018 |
Waste to Clean Energy Lecture Series | Ìý | Anju Krivov | $17,500 | 2018 |
Sustainable Transportation Education Initiative | Ìý | Thomas Maron, Morgan Dreibelbis, Devin Spindel, Deirdre Gill | $3,000 | 2018 |
Spring Speaker Series | Ìý | Jane Stromberg, Holly St. Jean | $1,0002 | 2017 |
Energy Action Seminar (2017-18) | Ìý | Richard Watts | $23,700 | 2017 |
Headwaters Magazine | Ìý | Dan Kopin | $2,000 | 2017 |
Power from the North Conference | Ìý | Jennie Stephens, Richard Watts, David Massell | $5,500 | 2015 |
Student Energy Action Seminar Series | Ìý | Richard Watts, Jane Kolodinsky | $15,171 | 2014 |
CEF Lecture Series: Campus Food & Energy Seminar Series | Ìý | Doug Lantagne, Richard Watts, Amy Trubeck, Alison Nihart | $7,682 | 2014 |
Energy Action Seminar | Ìý | Richard Watts, Stephanie Kaza | $14,631 | 2014 |
Smart Grid Seminar Series | Ìý | Curtis Saunders | $4,172 | 2014 |
Anaerobic Digestion Guest Lecturer | Ìý | Victor Izzo | $1,500 | 2014 |
Renewable Energy Network | Ìý | Frederick Hall | $6,300 | 2014 |
Clean Energy Internship Program | Ìý | Amy Siedl | $12,335 | 2014 |
Cow Power Research | Ìý | Gioia Thompson | $8,260 | 2014 |
GreenSpeed4 | Ìý | Jeff Frolik | $21,792 | 2014 |
"Vermont's Energy Future" Keynote Speaker, James Howard Kunstler | Ìý | Richard Watts | $4,000 | 2013 |
Energy Action Seminar | Ìý | Richard Watts, Joan White | $10,685 | 2013 |
CleanSpeed: A Student-Developed Zero-Emissions Vehicle | Ìý | Jeff Frolik | $23,469 | 2012 |
Climate Action Seminar | Ìý | Amy Siedl, Rachael Beddoe | $11,297 | 2012 |
Energy Auditing & Retrofitting Course | Ìý | Gary Flomenhoft | $2,965 | 2010 |
Virtual Solar Carport Course | Ìý | Richard Watts | $6,000 | 2010 |
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