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Solar Panels Installed at CU
Solar panels installed at the University of Colorado at Boulder on the roofs of the Coors Events/Conference Center, Housing System Maintenance Center and Wolf Law Building will produce 140,000 kilowatt-hours of energy per year -- enough to power 20 medium-sized houses.
The solar energy will go back into the buildings that hold the panels. It also will contribute to a cleaner energy grid and Colorado Amendment 37, passed by voters in 2004 to mandate 20 percent use of renewable energy statewide by 2020.
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$core update
The Student Community Outreach on Renter Energy is off to a great start, beating our expectations, with over 60 students asking for energy visits to their homes in just one month. $CORE teams have completed about 40 of these to date.
So far, we’ve helped student renters lower their energy bills by installing almost 300 energy-saving compact fluorescent bulbs, 70 hot water-saving showerheads, water heater insulation, weather-stripping and window film. Not to men...
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Get the Message and win $1,000
The Sustainability Messaging Contest, known as "Get THE Message", is open to all students at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The CU Environmental Center, sponsored by the Ball Corporation, is coordinating this student competition to find, and then incorporate, the most effective forms of sustainability outreach.
This contest includes three main categories, with each category having a $1000 first prize and a $500 second prize. The three categories are:
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What's going on with the Skibus?
Starting last year, we began to sell stand-by tickets, which enabled us to fill our buses making the service even more efficient. Several students have taken advantage of this option, being interested in riding the next day, but seeing the online sales sold-out.
Last year we hired a superior talent who has helped us with redeveloping the program: Jesse Morse. He was hired as our on-board manager, and from that point on was constantly thinking of ways to improve the customer service and t...
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Get Free Energy Stuff for your Place!
Sign up for a free energy visit to start cutting your energy bills and reduce your carbon footprint immediately. You'll also get $50 worth of free energy materials, a Cosmo's pizza for you and your roommates and a chance to win one whole month of energy bills paid for (up to $200).
With an environmental grant from Wells Fargo bank, the E Center has created $CORE - Student and Community Outreach on Renter Energy. The $CORE program will send teams of student "energy educators" to your home to show you simple ways to cut your monthly bills so you'll have more money to spend on things you want to spend it on. The team will give you f...
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CU Files Climate Action Plan
The University of Colorado at Boulder today filed its Conceptual Plan for Carbon Neutrality with the American College and University Presidents' Climate Commitment, making public how the campus plans to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.
Work on the 145-page document was launched when CU-Boulder became an early signatory of the American College and University Presidents' Climate Commitment in 2007. To carry out the requirements of the commitment, a working group was formed within the Chancellor's Committee for Energy, Environment and Sustainability chaired by CU-Boulder Vice Chancellor for Administration Frank Bruno.
Faculty, staff, students and comm...
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Zimride Comes to CU
Zimride launched a new rideshare community at CU. The Zimride platform connects CU Boulder community members looking to share their ride through an easy to use private network that will reduce campus traffic, parking difficulties and provide substantial cost-savings for our community. Through its website and Carpool application on Facebook, Zimride combines social networks and a proprietary route-matching algorithm to make it easy for users to share seats or find a ride.
"We are excited about the opportunity to significantly decrease our impact on the environment," said Peter Roper of the CU Environmental Center. "Zimride's solution is appealing to our stud...
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