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Sustainability events around campus this academic year
Energy & Water
Members
- Representative: Mike Ananian
- Ronnie Overton
- Ed Keller
- David Guion
- Steve Delaney
- Jessica Majkowycz
- Joy King
Mission
The Energy & Water Subcommittee’s mission is threefold: to make recommendations to the UNCG administration to adopt policies that will enhance sustainable energy and water management practices, to encourage individuals on campus and the community to be more responsible in their energy and water usage, and to provide information to the campus and Greensboro community about what UNCG is doing about energy and water conservation and efficiency.
Goals of the Energy and Water Subcommittee
The Energy & Water Subcommittee promotes and recommends energy-saving practices and projects to the campus community that will have a significant impact on energy/water sustainability measures at UNCG. Currently, UNCG complies with North Carolina’s mandate for energy and water conservation within the state university and community college systems’ buildings (Senate Bill 668), primarily in UNCG’s Capital Projects and Design and Construction Practices. Through publications on its website, the Energy and Water Subcommittee will raise the awareness of sustainable energy and water policies, practices, and projects that UNCG already has in place or will soon implement as well as those that this subcommittee recommends the university to put into practice.
This new subcommittee has complied a master list that is threefold: goals for the subcommittee; recommended goals and actions for UNCG; and polices, practices, and projects that UNCG already does or has committed to do in the near future.
Create website for our Energy and Water Subcommittee
- Another significant goal of this subcommittee has been to create a website, which you see here. Near future additions to this website will include: lists of suggestions for how students, faculty, and staff can conserve energy and water, links to on-campus websites—UNCG Student Employment Office for example—for educational, employment, and career opportunities in Energy and Water Management/Conservation and Sustainability, and quarterly updates of this subcommittee’s progress in fulfilling its goals.
Target Vice Chancellors who can control and implement our recommendations listed in the section below.
- On 1/20/09 the Energy & Water Subcommittee met with Associate Vice Chancellor of Facilities Operations Jorge Quintal and Assistant Vice Chancellor of Facilities Operations Tony Schallert to speak to them of the mission and objectives of the Energy & Water Subcommittee and to request their support of this subcommittee’s projects.)
Create a UNCG Energy and Water Recommendations and Guidelines Document that includes the UNCG Strategic Energy Plan as one of its components.
- We are working with the Assistant Vice Chancellor of Facilities Operations Tony Schallert to join Facilities Operation’s UNCG Strategic Energy Plan with the Energy & Water Subcommittee’s Master List mentioned above. In addition, this new document will include text about Energy and Water Sustainability per se, language currently missing in the UNCG Strategic Energy Plan. The primary goal of this document will be to recommend energy and water conservation/efficiency strategies and projects to the university. Secondarily, this subcommittee along with its Facilities Operations partner will submit this “UNCG Energy and Water Recommendations and Guidelines” document to the university to consider adopting as a university-wide Energy & Water Policy.
- Many universities nationwide as well as in North Carolina have an Energy and Water Policy, which is an important first step to raising the awareness and significance of sustainable energy and water efforts and reducing the carbon footprint. UNCG full-time staff, faculty, and students may see these energy and water policies and many other sustainability topics on ASSHE’s website: www.asshe.org.