Sustaining a Planet

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Sustaining a Planet
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takes action
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GEO302P/UGS303 Environmental Action Projects

• Earn 2-4 off the couch portfolio credits by
  working 4-8 hours on one of 4 environmental
  action projects
• With your powers combined!...make a real
  difference in the global issues we learn about in
  class by working in teams

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Residence Hall Energy Challenge

• Work with the CECs
• Energy Task Force to help your neighbors save
  energy and save the planet

Tasks include

• research and list 7-10 ways to
• reduce energy impact in a community residence
  hall

• develop strategies to publicize those methods
• during the Energy Challenge from Nov. 1st- 31st
• view and graph energy consumption numbers of
• each participating residence hall to determine
  
• energy savings gained during the challenge
  period
• calculate the carbon footprint savings of each
• residence hall

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EcoReps
Work with CECs EcoReps team to communicate with
your neighbors about living green in the dorms
Task include

• Sign up to be an EcoRep or Residence Hall
  Conservation
• Coordinator in your residence hall for the
  semester
• Research a list of green living tips you can
  encourage in your hall
• - Compile a sustainability assessment of your
  hall
• Write a summary of your effectiveness and the
  impact of your
• initiatives in the residence hall

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Ink Cartridge Recycling
Work with the Campus Environmental Centers Ink
recycling program to learn about product cycles
and the impacts of human consumption
For this project youll

• volunteer as ink collector with the
• CEC
• produce a brief report weighing
• negative and positive aspects of ink
• recycling

• Actively promote ink recycling in new
• locations
• Research a typical ink life-cycle.
• Include whats in different types of ink
• and how they affect the environment,
• as well a how much the US typically
• throws away.

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Sustainable Food
Work with the Sustainable Food Center while
learning about sustainable food distribution.

• For this project youll
• - Contact a local area farmer through the Austin
  Farmers Market.
• - Determine that farmers input chain and make a
  map of it
• - Write a brief report comparing costs and
  benefits of local and organic produce  

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GEO302P/UGS305 Environmental Action Projects

• To join an action team and earn portfolio credit,
  name the project you would like to participate
  with in your portfolio plan due to your TA on
  September 23.
• For information and questions contact
  madelinehvu_at_mail.utexas.edu