Green Energy Fee Grant Program:
Funded Projects
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Contenders For Funding
2013 Funded Small Projects
2012 Funded Large Projects
Contenders For Funding
Sustainable and Energy-Efficient Dorm (SEED) Pilot
Project Team Members: Rafael Gonzales, Melodi Yanik
A proposal to install an energy-efficient dorm room to educate students and the campus community about personal energy use and to act as a trial space for new energy-saving technologies.
Environmental Outreach Hydration Station (EOHS)
Project Team Members: Carolyn Bowie, Gerald Kitsis
A proposal to install a water bottle refilling station in the Wilson Library in order to continue the education of the use of reusable water bottles. Around this Hydration Station will be an environmental outreach resource kiosk featuring information on campus sustainability at Western.-
Driving Down Energy Consumption with Dashboards - Information is POWER!
Project Team Members: Greg Hough, Fred Escher, Brian Schiller, Jeremy Dyche, Jeremy Caci, Ali Hajy
A proposal to pilot interactive campus energy consumption displays—"Dashboards" that will receive data from an expanded remote utility reading network on campus that captures near real time energy consumption information. There will be education material to help create an aware campus to make behavioral changes to decrease energy usage.
2013 Funded Small Projects
Green Lighting the Black Box
$2,000
Project Team Members: Lon Butcher, Hannah Fenske
Conversion of rehearsal lighting to energy-efficient fixtures. This group will put up educational posters and notice of new energy efficient fixtures in performance programs.
Outback and Arboretum Environmental Restoration
$1,935
Project Team Members: Katrina Poppe, Eric Nelson
Offering WWU students opportunities to explore campus natural areas and increase the native biodiversity of the Outback and Arboretum. Looking to purchase native plants and garden tools to be used for 3 work parties to plant on bare sites where this group as eradicated invasive species in the past.
Built to Last Picture Show
$500
Project Team Members: Lidiya Rebrik, Rob Lopresti, Clarissa Mansfield
A sustainability film festival will run in Western Libraries every week in April, building excitement for Earth Day, and will be promoted with a do-it-yourself art project that encourages the use of reusable coffee mugs.
Green Residence Certification Pilot
$1,975.44
Project Team Members: Kendra Krantz, Hayden Fairley
Recognizing students for the small steps they take to protect our planet. This group is creating a Green Residence Certification Process for dorm rooms. The funding will go to Green Room Kits (with energy saving outlets & shower timers) and certification certificates and promotional materials.
Project Mug
$1,926
Pilot Program: Rent a reusable mug, reduce waste! Project MUG will reduce single-use cup waste generated at Western Washington University (Western) by implementing a system allowing students to check out reusable mugs and return when finished.
2012 Funded Large Projects
Environmental Studies Building Solar Array
$167,500
Project to continue the incremental adoption of on-campus solar renewable energy generation by installing a 5 kWh solar array on the Environmental Studies Building's south facing roof.
High-Speed Hand Dryers
$13,000
Project to replace paper towel dispensers in the Arntzen Hall concourse bathrooms with 4 Dyson hand dryers to reduce the size of Western's waste stream.
Parking Lot LED Lighting Retrofitting
$61,000
Project to retrofit parking lot lighting with energy efficient light emitting diodes (LED) lighting fixtures in the C lots across from the Wade King Rec Center to help reduce Western's energy consumption.
Restroom Paper Towel Composting
$1,400
A 6-month pilot project to add another receptacle that will only accept paper towels in each of the first and second floor restrooms in Haggard Hall. The paper towels were composted in order to reduce the size of Western's waste stream.
Water Bottle Refilling Stations
$21,000
Project to install a total of 3 water bottle refilling stations, one in each of the following buildings: Old Main, Arntzen Hall and the Wade King Rec Center in order to promote the use of reusable water bottles.
To see a map of implemented projects on campus view the Green Map.
For general questions... contact Sadie Normoyle, GEF Education Coordinator
Office: Viking Union 424 | Email: AS.GreenFee@wwu.edu
For grant specific questions... contact Regan Clover, GEF Grant Program Coordinator
Office: Viking Commons 24 | Email: Regan.Clover@wwu.edu
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