2007/09/04 Boiler Green Initiative Meeting Minutes: - Dues - Poster design for Alternate Transportation - Subcommittee leader applications - Guest Speaker Dan Schuster on LEED certification - Guest Dr. Kimmerer (executive director of the Association for Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education AASHE) - Subcommittee updates - Closing comments and questions Dues - Checks payable to Boiler Green Initiative - $20 Alternative transportation Week Poster Poster design looks good. One submission. Subcommittee leaders Submit two paragraph to one page about qualifications to be subcommittee leader. (first meeting Sept. 18) Dan Schuster - First Guest Speaker Faculty Supervisor Talking about LEED certification For LEED accredited professionals at Purdue. Dan Schuster is one of them Rosemary Kilmer - (rkilmer@purdue.edu) USGBC Steward Educate Forum Provide Offer -expertise Purdue a USGBC member Something about Expo Going green is a popular trend U.S. Building impacts 12% water use green buildings Save a lot of resources California has most new LEED buildings Then Washington, Pennsylvania, LEED Checklist http://www.usgbc.org/DisplayPage.aspx?CMSPageID=75&#rs First LEED building will be an additional wing on ME 60,000 ft^2 addition green roof Building will be town down recycle parts Four professors tried to figure out LEED consulted with people who designed it Individual who gave a lot wanted the building to be LEED Not as many resources here for LEED as compared to California Aimed for silver Life-cycle cost of building productivity is large building better thermo control more daylight more outside air reduce energy consumption better for occupants Dr. Kimmerer (tom@aashe.org) - Second Guest Speaker Executive Director of Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education http://www.aashe.org/ http://www.aashe.org/about/tom.php - bio niles@aashe.org - Niles is Kimmerer's assitant Presidents Climate Commitment http://www.presidentsclimatecommitment.org/ AASHE is for Colleges and Universities Unis consume 1.8% Consume 7% of U.S. electricity Important as it influences students students are the future AASHE is a member organization for unis has a lot of resources Sustainability on Campus -Environmental Viability -Economic Robustness Buisness Opportunities are Enormous Green to Gold - http://tinyurl.com/2dwch2 (amazon link) Interface Flooring largest carpeting people in world CEO went to factory saw wastefulness CEO completely redesigned factory now most sustainable thing ever Making a lot of money Want to make a complete circle ie make carpet used old carpet to make new carpet, etc Companies that make Sustainability a priority will thrive, they don't then fail same with universities -Socially Just & equitable in 70s environmental was primarily white people black people were doing the civil rights movement asked to come by Vice President Purdue has committed to making sustainability a core part Carbon neutrality part of sustainability Global warming greatest challenge of lifetime because if no Campus must become the laboratory to make a sustainable future Purdue can be a leader in sustainability Can name at least 25 community colleges are way more sustainable than Purdue Lot of cool stuff happening at campus Retrofit Buildings Berea [sp] College in Kentucky got LEAD gold certification for building constructed in 1888 MIT - main building retrofitted to be LEED gold Purdue has a big transportation problem Research university has problems with laboratories avg use of campus building is 2w/ft^2 laboratory is 15 W/ft^2 New initiative by Presidents Climate $100 Million to do energy efficient retrofits of existing buildings Next Step for Club See what other campus are doing get Building Level monitoring in dorms at Oberlin added monitor wired to internet You can see how much energy everyone in dorm is using STATISTICS Plug-Load: Reduced Dorm energy consumption by 30%!!! University of Colorado 15 food lines Made one food line and made organic food Buying local purduce line at first . . . HUGE line later Now 6 food places are organic and prepared there Get One place to be locally organic! community supported agriculture! Don't try to do to much at once. Recycling Competition related to sports Month long recycling competition Tennessee vs Kentucky Niles started this