SSTF proposals

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The following are the projects the SSTF is working to develop as of Fall 2009. Each project is currently in a different stage of development. The student leader of the project will serve as the contact person for the project and will have the most information respectively.


Contents

[edit] Facilities

[edit] Resource Usage Display – Visual Displays

MainPage:Resource Usage Display

  • Student Leader: Saadia Safir (safirs@rpi.edu)
  • Increase awareness and promote behavioral changes through visual displays
  • Encourage friendly competition between buildings or dorms with incentives
  • Determine the scope at which this could be implemented and effective

[edit] 86 Field - Green Repurposing

  • Student Leader: Christina Laskowski ~ (laskoc@rpi.edu)
  • Re-design the field for circulation, informal play, outdoor classrooms, etc.
  • Design charrette in the works to determine the best approach to using the space
  • Ensure the space can be divided or used on a larger scale for a range of events

[edit] Green Roof on the Student Union Bookstore

  • Student Leader: Kyle Mattson ~ (mattsk@rpi.edu)
  • Joint effort between the SSTF and ASME; assistance from campus departments
  • Design and build a green roof at the Union; option to build others in the future
  • Visual and energy savings impacts; increase student interest and awareness

[edit] New Building Design and Existing Buildings / Refurbish Policy

  • Student Leader: Robyn Marquis
  • Establish a campus-wide policy to formalize approach to construction projects
  • Should include all scales of projects, from lab modifications to campus additions
  • Use LEED guidelines as a base point in addressing green practices

[edit] Sustainable Housing Initiative

  • Student Leader: Jaron Kuppers ~ (kuppej@rpi.edu)
  • Create a research and living community as an evolving sustainability show-piece
  • Support green construction, use the space for learning, and foster cultural change
  • Existing building could be renovated to address these objectives and pay for itself

[edit] Greening Residence Life

  • Student Leader: Saadia Safir ~ (safirs@rpi.edu)
  • Develop RA/RD/LA/TLA programs encouraging students to reduce and recycle
  • Identify infrastructure changes that allow Res Life facilities to operate sustainably
  • This, with SO+NRB, would target mainly new students to adopt practices earlier

[edit] Green Greeks

  • Student Leader: Tom Holland ~ (hollat@rpi.edu)
  • Some Greek houses had led sustainability campaigns at their houses
  • Work with Greeks to be more sustainable
  • Create a packet that contains all kinds of best practices that can be used
  • Create rewards for houses that do well

[edit] Campus Recycling

  • Student Leader: Ben Cohen ~ (cohenb2@rpi.edu)
  • Discover where recycling programs are insufficient on campus
  • Advertise the new single stream recycling
  • Quantify results and cost savings

[edit] Food

[edit] Composting

  • Student Leader: Barrett Rehr (rehrr@rpi.edu)
  • Work with local community to divert food waste from the landfill stream
  • Cost savings for landscaping materials and waste management
  • Educational opportunity to show students the full cycle of farming and eating

[edit] Tray-Free Dining

  • Student Leader: Kiersten Purinton (purink@rpi.edu)
  • Educational campaign to encourage students to dine without a tray
  • Teach students better eating habits and show the reduction in waste

[edit] Farmers Market at the Union

  • Student Leader: Bev Bendix ~ (bendib@rpi.edu)
  • Increase availability of organic and local produce and food products
  • Improve relations with Troy and beyond; student volunteer opportunity
  • Minutes 10/8/09

[edit] Transportation

[edit] Biodiesel – Heating and Transportation

  • Student Leader: Liz Anthony ~ (anthoe@rpi.edu)
  • Construct a processing facility in Blaw Knox to convert cooking oil into fuel
  • Support research of bio-fuels and cut costs by using the fuel in shuttles, for ex.
  • Educate students on the process, perhaps borrow the space for a chemistry lab

[edit] Make Campus Bicycle Friendly

  • Student Leader: Ben Cohen ~ (cohenb2@rpi.edu)
  • Bicycle report was submitted to VP Rounds and is awaiting a decision
  • Efforts to increase bike racks and designate bike paths to improve safety
  • Encourage use through theft protection programs, locks, and locker rooms

[edit] Research

[edit] Beta Testing (i.e. BioWall, Smart Cooling)

  • Student Leader: Jaron Kuppers ~ (kuppej@rpi.edu)
  • Support and celebrate a commitment to innovative technologies developed here
  • Utilize campus facilities for testing prototypes that raise awareness
  • Costs supplemented by research grants and other outside sponsors

[edit] Education

[edit] Education – Out of the Classroom

  • Student Leader: Saadia Safir (safirs@rpi.edu)
  • First-Year Experience – Each SO presentation would identify green efforts by the respective campus facet; NRB trips and programs with hands-on experience
  • Staff / Faculty Training – Educational programs addressing sustainability for Rensselaer employees in conjunction with current training requirements

[edit] Volunteer Abroad (REACH)

  • Student Leader: Robyn Marquis ~ (marqur@rpi.edu)
  • Develop a greater global awareness by providing travel opportunities
  • Integrate service and learning through problem-based, short-term initiatives
  • Allow students to recognize their own capacity to make a difference

[edit] Curriculum Integration (content)

  • Student Leader: Ben Cohen ~ (cohenb2@rpi.edu)
  • Create interdisciplinary study programs that focus on sustainability; topics cover social, political, economic, cultural, and environmental impacts
  • Ranges from the individual courses to minors and majors across all fields
  • Opportunity to educate both students and faculty on the multi-faced, deep-rooted issues that sustainability can alleviate à drives a cultural change

[edit] Procurement

[edit] Green Purchasing

  • Student Leader: Robyn Marquis ~ (marqur@rpi.edu)
  • Identify preferred vendors for common purchases to support local and small businesses, and provide alternatives to corporations such as Staples
  • Provide eco-friendly product alternatives and educate designated office purchasers on the costs and benefits of these products
  • Track purchases and develop metrics to provide incentives for participation

[edit] Awareness Events

[edit] Face the Waste 2010

  • Student Leader: Ben Hunt ~ (huntb@rpi.edu)
  • A recycling awareness campaign on campus during Earth Week
  • Brings together around 120 student volunteers from around campus
  • Around 600 students participate in the prize competition
  • Interested in starting a grant program wherein students can win seed money for great ideas

[edit] Earthfest during Earthweek

  • Student Leader: Liz Anthony ~ (anthoe@rpi.edu)
  • Combine with Ecologic to have fun events during Earth Week in April
  • Get SSTF’s name out

[edit] Sustainability Speaker Series

  • Student Leader: Bev Bendix ~ (bendib@rpi.edu)
  • Bring speakers to campus
  • Chance to educate students
  • Funding

[edit] Revolving Green Fund

  • Student Leader: Ben Hunt ~ (huntb@rpi.edu)
  • Get a revolving fund for campus sustainability projects
  • Might be the only way we can afford to get big projects like Green Roof off the ground.
  • It grows from year to year
  • At some point we maybe ask for voluntary student contributions.

This page is for organizing and creating proposals under stewardship of the Student Sustainability Task Force.

[edit] Proposal stages

[edit] Ideas

Main page: SSTF project ideas

The Student Sustainability Task Force encourages any and all ideas for projects promoting sustainability on and around campus. If you have nascent ideas, if you want to see some ideas to spark your imagination, or if you want to help us organize and clean up ideas into project proposals, check out our SSTF project ideas page. If your idea is relatively fleshed out, you may be more interested in our SSTF project formation page.

[edit] Project formation

Main page: SSTF project formation

Projects in the nascent stages of formation are held separate from ideas. At this stage, a project starts taking on its own identity. The SSTF intends on spending most of its effort at this stage until we have a handful of feasible project proposals.

[edit] Project proposals

See SSTF project formation for proposals that don't have their own page yet.

[edit] Tagging

Laban Coblentz suggested tagging all projects with any of the following tags:

  1. Is the project already underway?
    • add "[[Category: SSTF underway]]" to the bottom of the project page
  2. Could it serve as a model to be replicated?
    • add "[[Category: SSTF model project]]" to the bottom of the project page
  3. Is it a big budget item?
    • add "[[Category: SSTF big budget]]" to the bottom of the project page
  4. Does it require permission of some sort?
    • add "[[Category: SSTF permission required]]" to the bottom of the project page
  5. Is it a discrete event?
    • add "[[Category: SSTF discrete event]]" to the bottom of the project page
  6. Is it an activity that would fall under the Office of Sustainability?
    • add "[[Category: SSTF sustainability office]]" to the bottom of the project page

[edit] How to get started with a project proposal

  1. Look over the list of ideas and grab one you like, or think up one of your own.
  2. Visit the SSTF project formation page and create another heading
  3. Start fleshing out your proposal with ideas, thoughts, milestones, etc.
  4. When it grows large enough, split it onto its own page
    • Contact Frank if you need help with this step
  5. Use the following formatting as a guide:
    • Title: xxxx
    • Opening Date: mm/dd/yy
    • Closing Date: underway
    • Contacts: have list of names and link to their user page or email address (or in the case of a project being sponsored by another on-campus club, link to their webpage and, or, wikipage)
    • Project Summary : this is really the place to get started with nascent ideas -- leaving the rest blank for now! please add if you like.
    • Problem Statement: xxx
    • Objectives: xxx
    • Methods: xxx
    • Available Resources: xxx
    • Required Resources: xxx
    • Evaluation (or Metric) Plan: xxx
    • Conclusion: xxx
  6. Tag the project appropriately (see above)
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