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The College Version of Going Green

The College Version of Going Green. Things You Can Actually Do. What is this?. The College Version of Going Green Collection of talks and seminars Made by the students, for the students Intended to convince participants to C hange their wasteful habits Switch to “greener” policies

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The College Version of Going Green

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  1. The College Version of Going Green Things You Can Actually Do

  2. What is this? • The College Version of Going Green • Collection of talks and seminars • Made by the students, for the students • Intended to convince participants to • Change their wasteful habits • Switch to “greener” policies • Rethink their current mindset

  3. About Us • Non-profit organization • Student run, student fund • Led by passionate, intelligent leaders • Personalized for the RPI campus • Want to change the world • One step at a time

  4. What Do We Want? • To change the environmental mindset of every participant in the program • To make this change last and spread to others • Ensure this programcan expand, develop, and extend • Last for years and adapt to a changing world • Spread to everyone who is affected by environmental change

  5. Phases • Initiative • Create and organize program • Allowance • Submit program to RPI administration • Creation • Personalization and advertisement • Revision • Review program, improve, and repeat

  6. Why, why RPI? • Has the resources, ability and mindset • Is a frontier for change and innovation • Open to new ideas and a changing ideology • Halfway between a city and suburbs setting • Potential to expand to localities

  7. Who’s going to care? • Students • Past • Present • Future • Undergraduate • Graduate • Environmentalorganizations • People of Troy • Average Joe • Mayor • The school • School board • Teachers • Higher-ups • All in it

  8. But wait, there’s more! • This program has great potential to grow • Other colleges could adapt the program • Could be recognized on a national level • Implemented in lower level schools • “Going Green” is currently trending • Basic support of the idea exists • Lasting idea for the future

  9. Here’s an example! • Give the average consumption of an average student • Put this energy into relatable terms • Present these same units in terms of energy wasted • Recommend solutions for reducing waste • On/off campus • Short/long term

  10. What you can do • Switch it off • Lights • Power Strips • Takes a lot more energy to keep it on than push it off • Reduce • Plates in dining halls • Laundry habits

  11. Parallel Ideas • Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) • Young education of environmental policies • Ohio’s Environmental Education • State-wide effort to educate adults • Southwest Energy Efficiency Project (SWEEP) • Southwest interstate effort to improve energy efficiency and policies

  12. So… • Why not change the world? • With this program, we can promise change on a person level • This change will add up to be on an impactful and lasting level • We can save the environment yet • But it starts with you

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