This is a collaborative space.

Use it to post ideas about how Stanford could be improving its energy efficiency or its departmental cooperation. Let everyone know about the great feasibility study your department is preparing, or suggest that some further research be done. Advertise our accomplishments and point out our weaknesses. Be heard!

Your ideas:

1. Add at your leisure--anyone can do it. The password is "climate"

Generated at the Kickoff Meeting, Oct 22 2006:

1. Have students find out what Stanford's current emissions are
2. Encourage use of public transportation instead of cars—discounts on Caltrain tickets, etc.
3. Inventory all green energy projects on campus in terms of potential impact on campus carbon signature
4. Encourage more students to bike instead of taking cars
5. Put turbines at the Dish!
6. Buy local everything...reduces emissions from long-distance transportation
7. Coordination of efforts by Stanford's academic departments
8. Get computer labs to turn computers off when not in use/overnight/etc.
9. A dorm at Lake Lag (greendorm.stanford.edu)
10. E-reps in row houses
11. Small-scale students involvement: Get students to pledge to turn off copmuters overnight, turn out lights, etc. + facebook groups
12. Inter-dorm competition to reduce energy use
13. Newsletter to students: e.g. energy conservation tips like the weekly Terrapass emails
14. Sustainability coordinator (full-time) or work/study research assistant
15. Awareness campaign; people are visual, make it personal. Don't assume students know.
16. Fewer lawns, more vegetable gardens! Reduces water consumption, a great community project, saves carbon in produce transporation
17. Guster is a popular band with a climate change program that it runs. Call Ed Reverse, they are performing in December. Plug in with them.

Here are discussion points from the kickoff meeting:

1. Professors need credibility. Sustainability on campus gives them concrete examples.
2. Environmental Engineering Dept: Wind Turbine feasibility study for campus. Incorporate w/ green dorm—and larger facility. This is to show Hennessy the campus community is already getting ready.
3. Solar energy: A nonprofit company SolFocus is very interesting in putting a solar array on campus. They need student support (class ideas? projects) that shows that there is interest in it. The Chicago Climate Exchange—trading emissions credits on the market.
4. Oil companies need new graduates who want to do green things. Would becoming more environmentally friendly be an admissions drop for Stanford?
5. Coordinating among different branches of the university. Buying offsets for the business school students—talk to Susan Kulakowski
6. Awareness campaigns
7. Speaker events
8. Investors, donors, see if there is interest in the funding of a greening of campus. Bill Lane? Ba-da-bing. Have investors voice their opinion about how their investment will be allocated.
9. Central unified policy—via Hennessy or Board of trustees. Is it costly to do this? Harvard saves a million dollars a year.