Ask Umbra’s video advice on greening your campus 3

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   Eco Encore Posted 4:51 pm
   08 Sep 2009

   College campuses are the institutions that really can and should set an example by making it to carbon neutral, with their sustainabile technology research programs and faculty at the forefront of the field. However, while Collge of the Atlantic and others have done well, we should not be satisfied with a handful of institutions moving forward while the rest cannot. In California, public universities are being crippled by budget cuts, and this has all but stopped campuses' drive toward achieving and moving beyond carbon neutral status. For example, UC Santa Cruz completely axed its STEPS Institute for Environmental Research in the face of a $24 million budget shortfall. In the end it's not just about the university-based drive for a better future on campus--one that can create a better future for us all. University sustainability improvements depend also on a political body that values higher education as well as a local economy that supports it.

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   jschindewolf Posted 7:55 pm
   08 Sep 2009

   To add to the "syllabus":Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

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   lucas.ingamba@gmail.com Posted 2:38 pm
   09 Sep 2009

   Its not just college campuses that can make a difference. I'm working to get my high school, Smithtown High East greener and get the populace more motivated (the latter, unfortunately, being the more difficult.) I recently appealed to the school board to purchase solar panels for the school, and they are currently in the process of installing $8 million of solar panels. Additionally, I've carried out a school wide "Gasoline Awareness Day" with the school's environmental club and business club to give incentives to kids for riding their bikes to school. We've also painted a mural saying "Smithtown East Goes green... Do your part." and some other stuff. We're working, but this video was great. Wonderful ideas, especially the book. It would be a job to convince the English department to do something like that... but I'll try! 

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