Find three(3) URL's that talk's about "green campus computing" and suggest ways how the university can adopt this concept.
Green Campus Program at Humboldt State University
The Green Campus Program (GCP) empowers students to lead energy efficiency and conservation campaigns at their universities. Green Campus interns design and implement energy efficiency projects. These projects result in measurable energy savings and reduced carbon emissions for the campus. Green Campus interns are also dedicated to educating the campus community on the relationship between energy use and the environment.
http://www.humboldt.edu/~greenhsu/cms/gc/main/more-about-us
What is Green Campus?
The Green Campus Program is a Statewide student-implemented energy efficiency program at 12 UC and CSU campuses and Stanford University. Green Campus is a program of the non-profit organization The Alliance to Save Energy. The Program has been made possible through grants and funding from the investor-owned utilities (IOUs) and the ratepayers of California. HSU Green Campus operates under the auspices of PG&E, SCE, and UC/CSU/IOU Energy Efficiency Partnership.
Top Ten Ways to Reduce Energy Usage
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Turn off lights, appliances and computers when not in use. Even for a few minutes!
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Replace incandenscent bulbs with compact fluorescent light bulbs.
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Plug electronics into power strips and turn them off when not in use to avoid phantom loads.
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Turn down your thermostat and put on a sweater!
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Turn your computer Monitor to save mode, screen savers don't save energy! Enable Power Management: In Windows XP; In Mac OS X, You go to 'System Preferences', click on the 'Energy Saver' icon, and set the computer and display (monitor), and Hard Drive to go to sleep. Alternatively, you can use a third-party program, or Press Cmd-Shift-Eject and your OS X Mac will immediately enter sleep mode.
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Buy Energy Star® labeled appliances.
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When doing laundry, wash full loads and use cold or warm rinses
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Take shorter or cooler showers.
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Waiting until after 7pm (after peak) to use appliances, such as, washers, dryers, and electric heaters, can help reduce to use of the dirtiest power plants.
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Share a fridge with room/suite mates and keep it full.
http://www.humboldt.edu/~greenhsu/cms/gc/main/energy-saving-tips
2.)http://energy.ucsb.edu/EnergyInfo/EnergyTips.htm
UCSB ENERGY
Office Equipment
* Turn off PCs, monitors, printers, copiers, and lights every night and every weekend, If you can't turn off the whole computer, turn off the monitor and the printer
* When purchasing PCs, monitors, printers, fax machines and copiers, consider Energy Star models that "power down" after a user specified period of inactivity
* Enable the energy savings options on existing office equipment
* If appropriate, use ink jet printers - they consume 90% less energy than laser printers
* Implement paper reducing strategies such as double sided printing as a default
* Use e-mail instead of sending memos and faxing documents
* Use shared LAN laser printers instead of individual laser printers
* Use central departmental coffee makers and refrigerators instead of personal units
Lighting
* Turn off all personal task lighting every night and every weekend
* If you are the last person leaving a bathroom or conference room, turn off the lights
* Turn off all unnecessary lighting in corridors
* Replace incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescents (contact Physical Facilities)
* Use light colors when redecorating your office space
* Use day lighting from windows or skylights, instead of electrical lighting, when you can
Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning
* Do not tamper with locking thermostat covers
* Where you have control of your thermostat, set the heating set point no greater than 68 degrees and cooling to no less that 74 degrees
* Do not use personal electric strip heaters or personal "window" air conditioning units
* Use blinds to control solar heat gains
* Make sure all heating and air conditioning systems under your control are turned off every night and every weekend
* Large administrative building air conditioning and heating systems will be off at night and weekends, so if you plan to work during these times, dress warmly or appropriately for the conditions
Elevators
* Avoid using elevators; use stairs.
Summary
Approximately one third of UCSB's power usage is under discretionary control of building occupants. If we faithfully use these energy conservation measures, combined with personal efforts and ideas, we can save up to ten percent of UCSB's electrical and natural gas energy.
3.)http://climate.ku.dk/green_campus/
Green Campus at the University of Copenhagen
The aim of Action Plan 2009 for Green Campus is to help the University of Copenhagen to meet its overall strategic goal of "becoming one of Europe's greenest campus areas". This is specified in "Destination 2012".
The University's most significant focus area is energy consumption; however, if we are to meet our targets, we must spread activities over a wide range of environmental areas.
Action Plan 2009 defines Central Administration's campus programme group's work with Green Campus and includes the following elements:
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Preparation of an energy action plan for the whole university, applicable from 2010 and containing projections up to 2013 when the goal of a 20% reduction is expected to be met.
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Development of models for the faculties' energy action plans. Faculty management will be offered the opportunity to discuss aspects of the plans, e.g. applications for grants from the University's central energy pool for individual energy projects.
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Implementation of Green Action, the University of Copenhagen's campaign for energy-conscious behaviour that ran in February and March, and development of follow-up activities in cooperation with the faculties to ensure continued development of energy-conscious behaviour.
* An invitation to tender for an ESCO pilot project for the Panum Building (the Faculty of Health Sciences). A contract will be entered into and investments will begin in 2009 as part of the third wave of the energy action plan.
* A prioritised catalogue of substantial energy saving projects (second wave of the energy action plan), which will be available in the middle of 2009 as input to the University's budget activities.
* A round of applications in which faculties can apply to the energy pool for funds for energy saving initiatives (first wave of the energy action plan).
* Completion of the Green Accounts 2007 for the University of Copenhagen. Preparation of Green Accounts 2008.
* Planning and implementation of the "Greening Universities" workshop at the IARU climate congress in March. An overall goal for reductions at the 10 IARU universities was presented at the workshop.
* Help with development of the IARU took kit for greening, which will be offered to other universities and organisations.
* Development of guidelines for sustainable campus planning. Green Lighthouse will be used as a pilot project for development activities.
* Development of requirements and requests for energy efficient and environmentally friendly construction and conversions at the University of Copenhagen. The project will be developed in collaboration with the state (the Danish University and Property Agency).
* Help to incorporate energy and environmental requirements into relevant, centralised purchase agreements that will be entered into by the purchase department during 2009. A method will be developed for calculating the proportion of green purchases.
* Help with the development of an action plan for Green IT under the auspices of University IT Coordination.
For me, the university can adopt those all concepts that will surely be useful and helpful to the university especially to the students.
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