This week I've been reading a bunch of articles. They were more related to sustainability, alturnate energy, and "Green" ideas in general than my SLA project, but good background information. One I found particularly interesting was Slate Magazine's article on the greenest tree you could plant. I found it interesting that even if you do plant a so called "green" tree that it wouldn't matter if you just let it die and rot as it would just spill all the CO2 back in the air. They suggested that no matter what tree you plant or have in your yard if you make it into furniture or building lumbar it would help greatly. So now that made me start thinking what trees are outside SLA and are they considered green?
Also this week I found a potential partner. My classmate Robert Yemola is working with a company call Smart power for his ILP. He has said that his mentor has showed interest in doing some type of program with SLA. So i'm hopping to get them on board with my project.
Last thing that happened this week was I got to talk to Peter through skype for the first time. That was a very cool experience. I haven't used skype hardly so it was my first time really getting to work with the program. I think it will probably become a bigger part of the way we communicate at some point. We talked more about what our plan was for the Educon 2.0 conference though.
looking ahead a little bit; I really want to try and get a few more resources read and added to the wiki. I really want to start posting on here more as I really want this to become my journal for this project and a nice way to keep a record of what we are doing. I also would really like to start doing some tests on SLA to try and figure out what our carbon foot print is now so i can start getting an idea of which parts of the school i should be focusing on first.
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Thursday, January 10, 2008
update 1/10
Well Happy New Year everyone!!!
So an update on my project. Sadly not much has been going on.
So an update on my project. Sadly not much has been going on.
- Peter has added quite a bit of info to our wiki, which i have been reading and learning a lot from.
- We are also trying to get ready for our part of the Educon 2.0 conference that is being held at SLA in a couple of weeks.
- I'm still reading Ishmale. It is a much harder read than i thought it was going to be, but i'm learning a lot from it.
- I'm also waiting for my other mentor Rob Fleming to send me the files for a carbon test that i can run to find the carbon foot print of SLA.
- Also i found a company that could start taking our paper so i have to write a proposal so we can get the dumpster for that.
Saturday, December 8, 2007
Project discription: SLA goes "Green"
I'm sure people are going want to know what we are actually trying to do, our goals, and such...
Summary/Goals
Mission Statement
The mission of my Individualized Learning Plan is to research sustainability, zero carbon, and green building and to use that knowledge to help SLA become a more green school.
Dream Goals
My big goal is to research the different types of sustainability, green fuels, building green, and carbon neutral to get a better understanding of it all. With this information I hope to figure out the best way to get SLA off the grid and get us to have the least amount or no waste. Also I want to document the whole journey so maybe it will help get other schools and businesses to go green as well and raise awareness that this is an issue.
Goals
Learn about carbon neutral and figure out the carbon footprint of SLA
Learn about different alternate fuels and see if SLA can run on any of them
Set up a recycling program
Figure out other things I can do to make SLA green
Make either a website/blog to document this journey
What Success Would Mean to Me
Success for me would be to learn about; sustainability, carbon neutral, green power, how it all works and what goes into making decisions about what kind to use. Also getting SLA as green as possible, even if it is only figuring out our CO2 footprint, setting up a recycling program, and getting our lights turned off when we aren’t using them.
Summary/Goals
Mission Statement
The mission of my Individualized Learning Plan is to research sustainability, zero carbon, and green building and to use that knowledge to help SLA become a more green school.
Dream Goals
My big goal is to research the different types of sustainability, green fuels, building green, and carbon neutral to get a better understanding of it all. With this information I hope to figure out the best way to get SLA off the grid and get us to have the least amount or no waste. Also I want to document the whole journey so maybe it will help get other schools and businesses to go green as well and raise awareness that this is an issue.
Goals
Learn about carbon neutral and figure out the carbon footprint of SLA
Learn about different alternate fuels and see if SLA can run on any of them
Set up a recycling program
Figure out other things I can do to make SLA green
Make either a website/blog to document this journey
What Success Would Mean to Me
Success for me would be to learn about; sustainability, carbon neutral, green power, how it all works and what goes into making decisions about what kind to use. Also getting SLA as green as possible, even if it is only figuring out our CO2 footprint, setting up a recycling program, and getting our lights turned off when we aren’t using them.
How does this work?
So I set this up a week or two ago and haven't had much time to play around and figure out how it really works. Or if this is really what we are looking for for this project. Maybe this just turns into my journal for this project and then we have another web based site that is for everything else? Must play around a bit more to find out everything blogger does...
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