The Hudson Valley Community College Sustainability Committee is starting a new feature: Sustainability Tip of the Week. Faculty, staff and students, please send your sustainable ideas to share for our weekly tip to j.coons@hvcc.edu. If used, you’ll receive a token of our appreciation!
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Sustainability Tip of the Week
To be green, I don’t own a clothes dryer. I use an outside line or drying racks in the house. It’s one of the easiest ways to shrink your energy footprint. People only recently began owning clothes
dryers, so it isn’t such a stretch to make the switch.
Laura Cullen, Technical Assistant
School of Health Sciences-Office
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Here is a link to some tips you can find at the Sustainability Committee website: https://www.hvcc.edu/ehs/sustainability-green-office.pdf.
To learn more about what the Sustainability Committee does, please attend the Wednesday, Feb. 27 Faculty Workshop Day session II from noon – 1:15 p.m:
“Hudson Valley’s Behind-the-Scenes Efforts to Reduce Carbon and How it Applies to Your Teaching”
Presenters: Joanne Coons and Laurie Vivekanand
Though many may not be aware of it, Hudson Valley’s TEC-SMART community has worked hard to reduce the college’s energy and carbon footprint. In this session, we will touch on how these programs can be applied across several disciplines. Activities include an overview of the TEC-SMART facility, an exercise on how to size a PV system for your home or business, information on how you can reduce your carbon footprint, and a multitude of ideas that you can take back to your classroom and labs.
Published: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 13:13:13 +0000 by j.coons