UNBC Launches Green Contest
Friday, March 9, 2012 @ 3:53 AM
Prince George, B.C. – UNBC has launched a contest to find the next “green” initiative for the University. The University has set up a contest on Facebook, where you are encouraged to post your idea and get your friends and supporters to vote for the submission.he contest is open until March 15th but has already been receiving plenty of action.
“We had 33 suggestions within the first 24 hours,” says UNBC President, George Iwama. “Empowering the UNBC population is appropriate as Canada’s Green University. It provides the opportunity to get involved in purposeful environmental change, and links our current and former student community with UNBC’s mandate to ‘walk the walk’”.
The winning submission could become the next environmental project to be undertaken by UNBC which has been lauded as Canada’s “green” university. In 2010, it shared the top campus sustainability award in North America with Harvard University for its Bioenergy Project which uses wood waste from local mills to heat the University, an initiative which reduced UNBC’s fossil fuel consumption by up to 85%.
Suggestions already entered include banning bottled water and paper coffee cups on campus, and making all the washing machines in the residence cold-water only.
When the voting has been completed on the 15th, the top five entrants will be announced and winners will receive prizes on March 20th, the 5th Annual Green Day at UNBC.
Prizes include: green baskets from the University Bookstore, $1000 in prize money from Integris Credit Union, and the potential to be UNBC’s next green project, as selected by the Green Day Committee
Comments
Lots of money in this green thing. Does not have to make sense as long as the dough rolls in. Oh taxpayer money by the way.
Does the uni pay carbon offsets to some middleman to cover the the emissions spewing out of the trucks exhaust hauling wood to their overpriced woodburner?
There’s a lot of waste on campus. Nice to see that people have good ideas about how to turn things around.
Some excellent read here showing the futility of dealing with C02, unless ones hand is out for money.
” Next, Lord Monckton turned to climate economics and demonstrated that the cost of acting to prevent global warming is many times greater than the cost of inaction. The example of Australiaâs carbon dioxide tax showed why this was so. Australia accounts for only 1.2% of global CO2 emissions, and the governmentâs policy was to reduce this percentage by 5% over the ten-year life of the tax. On the generous assumption that the entire reduction would be achieved from year 1 onward, the fraction of global emissions abated would be just 0.06%. Because this fraction was so small, the projected CO2 concentration of 412 ppmv that would otherwise obtain in the atmosphere by 2020 would fall to 411.987 ppmv. Because this reduction in CO2 concentration was so small, the warming abated over the 10-year period of the tax would be just 0.000085 C°, at a discounted cost of $130 billion over the ten-year term.
Therefore, the cost of abating all of the 0.15 C° of warming that the IPCC predicted would occur between 2011 and 2020 by using measures as cost-effective as Australiaâs carbon dioxide tax would be $309 trillion, 57.4% of global GDP to 2020, or $44,000 per head of the worldâs population. On this basis, the cost of abating 1 C° of global warming would be $1.5 quadrillion. That, said Lord Monckton, is not cheap. In fact, it is 110 times more costly than doing nothing and paying the eventual cost of any damage that might arise from warmer weather this century.”
Full read here,
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/03/10/moncktons-schenectady-showdown/#more-58770
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