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One Less Hand-out?: A Roundtable Discussion about Eco-Friendly Advising. Jennifer Joslin Lori Manson Terrie Minner The University of oregon. The Plan. It’s not trivial Vampires Key trends Next steps!. Living Green: It’s Not Trivial.
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One Less Hand-out?: A Roundtable Discussion about Eco-Friendly Advising Jennifer Joslin Lori Manson Terrie Minner The University of oregon
The Plan • It’s not trivial • Vampires • Key trends • Next steps!
Living Green: It’s Not Trivial 1. A typical computer, monitor, and associated peripherals , if left on all day, can easily consume __________ cents worth of electricity a day (or $____ /year/system).
Living Green: It’s Not Trivial 2. Energy efficient laptops consume $ ____ of power per year.
Living Green: It’s Not Trivial 5. An example of an “energy vampire” is: • The office microwave • Rechargeable battery-pack for the office dust-buster or cell phone • The office television or VCR • All of the above
Living Green: It’s Not Trivial 6. About 9% of your buildings’ facilities costs come from: • Lighting • Cooling • Heating • Energy used by vending machines, computers, and drinking fountains
Living Green: It’s Not Trivial • We order ____ reams of paper every year in our office and it’s ____ % post-consumer recycled paper
How Are Vampires Involved Again? • Common terms: • Sustainability • Energy vampires • Delamping • Plug loads • Carbon footprint
Thinking Green: Key Trends It all started with AdvisorTrac…
Thinking Green: Key Trends We’re asking these questions: • Is it possible for advising to be sustainable? • How does technology-reliance affect advising? • How do we retrain ourselves and our students? What questions are you asking? What questions should we ask as a field?
Thinking Green: Key Trends Collective thoughts
Thinking Green: Key Trends Collective thoughts
Thinking Green: Key Trends Collective thoughts
Thinking Green: Key Trends Collective thoughts
Next Steps • Living Green: • Self-assess, set goals, communicate, evaluate • Thinking Green
Living Green Resources Checklists for office (and home) environments: CalTech http://sustainability.caltech.edu/purchasing/GreenOfficeChecklist Northwestern http://www.northwestern.edu/fm/operations/recycling/additional%20information.html(click on Sustainable Office Checklist)
Blog Resources • Great site with green blogs (in English & Spanish): • National Resource Defense Fund http://www.nrdc.org/blogs/ • The Society of Environmental Journalists regularly updates a list of environmental blogs: http://www.sej.org/resource/blogs.htm
Resources Nationwide initiatives: • Power Down for the Planet- campuses pledge to reduce energy consumption http://www.powerdownfortheplanet.org/
For Your Web Site “We think about our carbon footprint” .gif file for all attendees • Thanks to Katie Schumm for her technical assistance!
The University of Oregon Office of Academic Advising Jennifer JoslinLori Manson jjoslin@uoregon.eduloric@uoregon.edu Terrie Minner tminner@uoregon.edu