How about a semi truck display! The kind that delivers fuel to their clean energy system. Does the electric car display show the total pollution created from the manufacturing to the disposal compared to a regular car? Go green yes but go green smartly.

The only green they need at this University is **Greenbacks**, to keep them from going broke.

I suggest they concentrate on something a little more indepth than a recycled Farmers Market, Green Smoothies Demo, etc;

Speaking of “smoothies”, since tomatoes are deemed a fruit, would it not be proper to consume a ketchup smoothie? Yum, Yum.

You three need to see the bigger picture.
Sure, UNBC’s Green Day is focusing on the small things, why? Because the small things count. “Being environmentally friendly” is an easy thing to say we want, but not nearly as easy to do, especially in a winter city that would rather spend $30,000 on a useless trip to china, than start a regulated recycling program.

Because our city seems to have other priorities, why not try to do little things such as taking the bus, not circling the parking lot ten times to find a close spot at the store, returning everything that is recyclable (not just things you get money back for) and just using common sense while being the consumer society we are, can really help.

Good job UNBC, I hope the three suckers above me join you and open their eyes a bit more, I doubt they were born yesterday.

Suckers littleone? The suckers are the ones falling for the green label without doing the research on how that green product is produced. Ride the bus you say? Why not walk or ride a bike? Maybe you need to see the bigger picture littleone.

Built the uni up a hill, big windows, fuel deliveries, two heating systems, yup real green.

NoWay, do you remember that it snows here in PG? I would love to ride my bike or walk to the university, but alas, I can’t most of the year, and when I can, regular classes are no longer in session. Move along now, there’s shoveling to be done so you can take your bike to work with you.

Now about those so called electric cars being green. From my earlier post,

Yes just why are we investing in so called green vehicle technology? What are the costs? How is the study going? Seems to be a secret.

Could that money not be better spent in potholes, improving street sweeping and snow removal. Heck the Little Prince budget is just a fraction of those green costs and it brings joy to thousands not a hand picked few as the so called green vehicles.

Not to mention that electric car factories are more toxic than normal car factories and that electric cars were deemed to be worse for the environment in a study by The Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

http://joannenova.com.au/2013/01/electric-vehicles-could-cost-2000-per-year-for-our-electricity-network/

Hydro at times buys super cheap, what greens call evil coal fired power mostly at night from the US and Alberta when not forced to buy very expensive power from IPP’s. So those thinking they are green with electric cars, think again, they are at times in BC coal powered. So called green electric vehicles in the US and Alberta whose electrical generation is mostly coal fired, are recharged by evil coal.

http://joannenova.com.au/2012/10/electric-cars-are-worse-for-the-environment/

I thought uni’s were about truth and education, silly me.

Seamutt, im starting to think that there aren’t any words to convince a mutt like you any different so I’m not going to waste my time. Spout your opinion and ‘facts’ if you must, but I personally don’t want to see it. You can move along too and shovel with NoWay, I’m going to have a green smoothie and buy local products from vendors. Don’t join me.

I was hoping it was the band…

^^^ Me too. :-(

Put studded tires on your bike littleone and a warm helmet. You can ride your bike in the winter here and I know a few that do. You don’t want to see the facts littleone because you are blinded by your arrogance. Enjoy your smoothie littleone. I hope they made it with green produced ingredients and it is made with a hand operated blender then served in a glass cup.

littleone I am just showing the facts, can you refute? Keep living in your happy little world and pull the covers over your eyes.

littleone has a selective memory. Perhaps she can tell us what the results were for two programes that UNBC had a few years ago.

1. Planting willows on the side of the University hill to keep the mud from sliding down??? I notice that the mud still slides down, and the willows have slid down with it.

2. Planting of five or six different types of grass along University Way and some other locations in Prince George to see what type of grass was best suited for Prince George????

As far as I know they let the grass grow out of control and eventually it was all cut or plowed under by the City.

Hmmmmmmmmm.

Thought this was a concert announcement. Sadly,no American Idiots show at UNBC.

Adding insult to injury that road on the side of the hill cost $18 million dollars. How much energy was used to pay the taxes to retire that miniscule portion of our provincial debt? Write in again after you have paid forty plus years of taxes. It might change yer outlook on life, littleone.

I recall the first time I visited UNBC was on a Sunday and I was told there is no bus going up the hill on sundays!

By the time I walked up the hill, my dress smelled of sweat and car smokes. It is really not green walking or cycling up that hill next to the road and you could develop asthma.