Sustainability Conference & Design Charette
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This project mobilized students to meet the challenge of green re-design for a more sustainable campus. Shoup Hall, a 1950’s dormitory and later a campus office building, is the location of four rooms that the UISC will remodel into a demonstration of green office and living materials and design while using them as the UISC offices.
The project began October 30, 2006 with a design charette led by co-hosts Jens Carlson, Sim Van der Ryn, the renowned sustainable design guru, and UISC Director Rose Keller. The challenge: redesign the UISC office space in Shoup Hall to exemplify principles of sustainability. Over 50 Art and Architecture students formed teams to create and submit designs for the competition. The charette was followed by an evening keynote speech by Sim Van der Ryn.
Twice is Nice: Campus Paper Reduction
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Project leaders Justin Saydell and Kimberley Higgs coordinated a March 20 Argonaut study to raise student awareness of paper waste problems at the UI,
and worked collaboratively with UI Creative Services & Print Management to finalize designs for two styles of informational posters to post in 19 computer labs
750 colorful recycled-rubber mousepads with paper-saving instructions have been placed in the computer labs. In addition to the custom mouse pads, both print and digital information materials, in the form of
posters, custom mouse pads, and a desktop icon of step-by-step instructions, have been added to all student computer labs on campus to encourage students to use duplex printing and print multiple powerpoint slides per page, and to show them
how to do it.
Rainwater Harvest Garden
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A graduate student in landscape architecture, Robert Farnsworth's project will build a sustainable and educational garden irrigated only with rainwater harvested from the roof of the historic Art & Architecture building. The project will be a demonstration site for an interdisciplinary collaboration of University of Idaho graduate and undergraduate students, as well as local community members, now and into the future.
Reducing Campus Waste One Freshman at a Time
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In an effort to reduce paper cup waste from campus coffee shops, the Student Orgainzation for People and the Environment S.O.P.E., led by Andrew Miller, Marci Miller, and Adrienne Boland, will design and distribute reusable coffee mugs with sustainability tips on them. The cups will be distributed during Fall 2007 Orientation to one Core Discovery class, the CNR 101 class, and a random sample of other student coffee drinkers. A pre- and post-survey will be administered to measure changes in individual sustainability. A 400-level statistical analysis class will assist in assessment.
Resource Compilation Project
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This project helpd establish a baseline of information on sustainability at UI, to be housed in the UISC, by sorting and organizing existing materials and soliciting new donations. The UISC Resource Library was aimed at providing students with ideas for projects and promoting collaboration for successfully advancing sustainability at UI through student-led projects. Project members Tess Studley and Lissa Firor also completed a short feasibility report on how to organize electronic, non-print, and informal materials to help document UI’s sustainability history and activities.
Wind-Powered Electric Vehicles
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UI students Erik Luvaas, Justin Saydell and Kyle Harbacheck took on the task of conducting a feasibility study to develop a road map for a project to harness wind energy on campus and convert it to electricity to power vehicles that can be a campus shuttle service for students with disabilities or temporary injuries. The UI needs to improve building accessibility to comply with the 1990 Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA). There are 250 UI students registered with UI's Disability Support Services, including 81 students with physical disabilities who must move from one building to the next every day. By investigating ways to power campus shuttles with renewable, clean energy, these students addressed the problem of full accessibility on campus without contributing to other human and environmental problems.
