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Students Install Renewable Energy in Remote Alaskan Village
Several current and former students, and Sustainable Living faculty member Lonnie Gamble spent a month in a small village on Admiralty Island in Alaska installing sustainable energy technology as part of a project to help indigenous Alaskans deal with the crushing energy costs.
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Students Design, Build Industrial Can Crusher
Their goal was to make a can crusher that would work without electricity. The result: a human-powered press that flattens a can in eight seconds. Total cost? About $500.
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Permaculture Students Plant Edible Forest on Campus
It’s intended to be a display of self-sustainability based on contemporary permaculture principles — the design of productive habitats for people that have the stability, diversity, and resilience of natural ecosystems.
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Students Build Low-Cost Solar Tube
Students built a solar tube — a project initiated during a course in high-performance green building.
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Students Build Low-Cost Solar Tube
Students built a solar tube — a project initiated during a course in high-performance green building.
Student Garden Offers Field Experience
The project, called the “student garden,” is designed as a large circle composed of many growing beds (3’ by 12’ each) where students grow a diversity of organic vegetables, culinary herbs, soft fruits (berries), and flowers, as well as fiber crops, various medicinal plants, and more.
Students create renewable energy projects
In the context of doing these projects, students consulted with and learned from some skilled craftsman in town. They learned to weld and to do blacksmithing, plumbing, and electrical work. They also learned basic woodworking skills and visited an Amish sawmill, using the lumber in their projects.
Students Retrofit Wing with Green Technologies
Students completed a six-month project to renovate the Sustainable Living wing in order to provide more workshop space, to create an attractive environment, and to retrofit it with green technologies such as motion sensors, skylights, sun tubes, and high-performance fixtures.
Annual Eco-Fair Brings Leading Experts
Students first organized an Eco-Fair in 2000, and it has since become an annual traditions, often bringing in leading experts in a range of areas, from sustainable agriculture, to renewable energy, to living off the grid.
Students Advise Fairfield on Use of Alternative Energy
The City of Fairfield created a commission to plan a strategy to save money via alternative energy, thanks to a research project by students in a course on management and the environment.