Brainstorming


 * **Area ** || **Topic ** || **Description of the current situation ** || **Proposed projects for improvement ** || **Possible support/sources ** ||
 * Solid Waste management || Paper recycling reusing || ACT currently has in place a paper/plastic/aluminum recycling program || Produce video for raising awareness about greener recycling practices || ACT’s studio facilities

 ACT's faculty and Eco 110 students who already know video editing ||
 * ||  ||   || Audit efficiency of recycling program || All students of Ecology 110 ||
 * ||  ||   || Increase double-sided printing by members of the ACT community ||   ||
 * ||  ||   || Produce video for raising awareness about greener recycling practices || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">ACT’s studio facilities

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">ACT's faculty and Eco 110 students who already know video editing || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">ACT Maintenance <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Speaker will be available (“know how”) ||
 * ||  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Minimal use of the double-sided policy for printing || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">Implement a program for double sided-printing ||   ||
 * || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Paper printing || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">Policy about unlimited paper printing by students wastes paper || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">Implement a program to reduce waste paper printing ||  ||
 * || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">Plastics in the cafeteria || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">No recycling of plastic cups in the cafeteria || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Implement a program to reduce or replace drinking cups with reusable cups/glasses ||  ||
 * || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">E-recycling || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">None || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Start a battery-recycling program ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">Water Management || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">Rainwater capture and use || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">None || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">Capture rainwater and use it for irrigation or gardening || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">ACT Maintenance ||
 * || Tap vs. bottled water || None || Change behavior of ACT students/faculty/staff || Check Brown's approach [|here] or here ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Energy efficiency || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Building energy efficiency || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Bissell Library and New Building have elements of “green” building (e.g. many windows that allow light to go through, doors close automatically, some light bulbs have been replaced by LED light bulbs, or WC’s have automatic water dispensing systems. || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Audit energy consumption of the two buildings and determine itemized areas that consume most energy || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">ACT Maintenance could provide data about current energy use ||
 * ||  ||   || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Install PVs in the roof of New Building and/or Bissell Library ||   ||
 * ||  ||   || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Replace all lights with LED light sources || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">ACT Maintenance ||
 * || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">Electronic efficiency in registration and textbooks || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">Minimal || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Replace current paper registration and textbooks with electronic processes and media ||  ||
 * || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Central heating || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Current using oil. Is pellet better? || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Propose which is greener practice ||  ||
 * || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Computer use || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Computers left running after students/staff use them || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Propose a greener practice ||  ||
 * || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">WC’s drying hands || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Currently both paper and air blowers are used || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Propose which is greener practice ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Transportation || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Student transportation ||  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Implement a bus program for all ACT students ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Physical campus || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Gardening || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Minimal || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Expand gardening project to students, faculty, and staff || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Seed money are available to students for purchasing tools and basic equipment
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Physical campus || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Gardening || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Minimal || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Expand gardening project to students, faculty, and staff || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Seed money are available to students for purchasing tools and basic equipment
 * || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Bee hives || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">None || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Install small number of bee hives on campus || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Invited speaker for workshop ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Environmental awareness || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Raising green campus sustainability efforts || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Interact has some initiatives aiming to environmental awareness || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Produce video for raising awareness about general greener campus practices || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">ACT’s studio facilities

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">ACT's faculty and Eco 110 students who already know video editing ||
 * ||  ||   || Organize a Green Campus Energy Efficiency Workshop/Day. Invite students to participate in focus groups and register their ideas || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Interact, Business chair (Environmental Management), proposals by students, make posters, projects performed in previous Ecology 110 classes, invited speaker(s). More ideas here ||
 * || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Changing behavior || None || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Audit the current green practices of the students, faculty, and staff (e.g. distribute a questionnaire ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Ecological footprint (EF) || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Carbon footprint of ACT || None || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Search for proper methods used to determine EF of an entire campus ||  ||


 * Area || Topic || Description of the current situation || Proposed projects for Improvement || Possible support/sources ||
 * Maintenance || Cleaning services || None || Improve the chemical solutions currently used with environmentally sound solutions ||  ||