The College Version of Going Green Things You Can Actually Do

What is this?  The College Version of Going Green  Collection of talks and seminars  Made by the students, for the students  Intended to convince participants to  Change their wasteful habits  Switch to “greener” policies  Rethink their current mindset

About Us  Non-profit organization  Student run, student fund  Led by passionate, intelligent leaders  Personalized for the RPI campus  Want to change the world  One step at a time

What Do We Want?  To change the environmental mindset of every participant in the program  To make this change last and spread to others  Ensure this program can expand, develop, and extend  Last for years and adapt to a changing world  Spread to everyone who is affected by environmental change

Phases  Initiative  Create and organize program  Allowance  Submit program to RPI administration  Creation  Personalization and advertisement  Revision  Review program, improve, and repeat

Why, why RPI?  Has the resources, ability and mindset  Is a frontier for change and innovation  Open to new ideas and a changing ideology  Halfway between a city and suburbs setting  Potential to expand to localities

Who’s going to care?  Students  Past  Present  Future  Undergraduate  Graduate  Environmental organizations  People of Troy  Average Joe  Mayor  The school  School board  Teachers  Higher-ups  All in it

But wait, there’s more!  This program has great potential to grow  Other colleges could adapt the program  Could be recognized on a national level  Implemented in lower level schools  “Going Green” is currently trending  Basic support of the idea exists  Lasting idea for the future

Here’s an example!  Give the average consumption of an average student  Put this energy into relatable terms  Present these same units in terms of energy wasted  Recommend solutions for reducing waste  On/off campus  Short/long term

What you can do  Switch it off  Lights  Power Strips  Takes a lot more energy to keep it on than push it off  Reduce  Plates in dining halls  Laundry habits

Parallel Ideas  Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)  Young education of environmental policies  Ohio’s Environmental Education  State-wide effort to educate adults  Southwest Energy Efficiency Project (SWEEP)  Southwest interstate effort to improve energy efficiency and policies

So…  Why not change the world?  With this program, we can promise change on a person level  This change will add up to be on an impactful and lasting level  We can save the environment yet  But it starts with you