Energy Committee

Ideas for reducing energy consumption and increasing awareness on campus:

-Get involved with IT to examine the viability of automatic computer shutdowns for campus computers after an extended idle period.

-Get involved with administration(/student gov?) to look at funding for installing lighting occupancy sensors.

-Place stickers on light switches to remind to turnoff after exiting a room.

-Create and place signs to encourage the use of stairs over elevators.

-Devise an experiment to examine the viability of waiting for a parking spot to open versus walking to campus through polling, car counting, or devising an experiment. Get connected with campus media to distribute results.

-Look into possible metering of campus electric utilities to model building energy use.

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Lou Douglass Lecture

An activist dubbed one of the most powerful people in the nonprofit sector will be the next Lou Douglas Lectures speaker on Tuesday, Oct. 30, at 7:00 pm in Forum Hall of the K-State Student Union.

Robert Egger, founder and president of the D.C. Central Kitchen in Washington, D.C., which combats hunger and creates jobs for unemployed and homeless men and women will speak on “Our 40 Year Journey from Charity to Change.”. His talk is free and open to the public.

At the D.C. Kitchen, unemployed and homeless men and women learn marketable skills by turning foods donated by restaurants, hotels and caterers into balanced meals and then serving them at the D.C. Central Kitchen. Since opening in 1989, the Kitchen has distributed 17.4 million meals and helped more than 605 men and women gain full-time employment.



Egger is also developing the Campus Kitchens Project, which brings colleges and universities together with student volunteers, dining service workers and community organizations to combat hunger across the country.

Valerie Coltharp
Special Projects Coordinator
UFM Representative Payee
UFM Community Learning Center
1221 Thurston, Manhattan, KS 66502
(785) 539-8763
(785) 539-9460 (fax)

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Red Carpet or Green Carpet!

Walking the Green Carpet
By alicia on February 22nd, 2007 at 2:37 pm

Unless your computer has an incredibly advanced filter for the plethora of award-mania, you most likely know that the Oscars are this Sunday. Following on the success of the Golden Green party held in conjunction with the Golden Globes, the Global Green pre-Oscar party was held last night.

As such movies as Blood Diamond and An Inconvenient Truth bring awareness through film, more and more stars are using their popularity to bring light to causes dear to their heart. While sincerity sometimes feels a bit transparent with some causes, green and fair trade movements allow actors to show, not tell, us how committed they are.

Orlando Bloom has converted his home with “solar panels on the roof, energy efficient light bulbs” while also bringing awareness to easier things everyone can do such as “unplugging their phone chargers and turning off the TV.”

Global Green isn’t stopping with this party, they’re taking the green to the Oscars via hybrid vehicles for a glamorous entrance for the stars, with an eco-footprint more inline with their dainty heels.

Now we just need to get those guys in some fair trade & organic gowns!

UPDATE: An Inconvenient Truth Won!

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