"Greening our schools is a commitment, not a competition. If there are winners and losers, then we're all losers, and we can't afford to lose. Our future depends on it."
2011 GREEN CUP CHALLENGE
NORTHEAST REGIONAL GREEN CUP CHALLENGE KICKOFF CONFERENCE
Deerfield Academy, November 7th
8:15 - 9:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:30 – 9:50 Opening Remarks
10:00 – 10:50 Student-led Workshop A, Coordinators Meeting
11:00 – 11:50 Student-led Workshops B, Coordinators Meeting
12:00 – 12:50 Lunch
1:00 – 1:50 Workshop B
2:00 – 2:50 Workshop C
3:00 – 4:00 Closing Remarks followed by refreshments
MORNING STUDENT-LED WORKSHOPS
1. Back-2-Tap – Reducing Bottled Water on Campus
2. Dining Hall Initiatives
3. Green Cup Activities that Work
4. Eco-Leaders & Environmental Proctors – Models that Work
5. Local Farming & Waste Management: fostering a more self-sustaining community through local vegetable and dairy farming
AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS
1. Recycling, it’s not just avoiding the landfill
2. Using Campus Electricity Data to motivate Conservation – Dorms, Dashboards, & Student Research
3. Student Directed Change in Sustainability: Our ongoing experiment creating the Brooks Institute for Sustainability – the Brooks School
4. Renovating Older Buildings to make more energy efficient – Chris Riddle, Kuhn Riddle Architects
5. Geothermal in a School Building
6. Electric Vehicles: Building and Competing
7. Tour a Green Dorm – Bement School’s new super-insulated dorm w/solar electric and thermal panels
8. Electricity 101 and making it from PVs
9. Phillips Andover’s Alumni House – sustainable dorm living project
10. Solar Panels at Your School, a Roadmap
11. ClimateCounts.Org – Corporate Climate Action – helping students use their voices & choices to put pressure on the world’s largest companies
Special thanks goes to Deerfield Acadamy for sharing this agenda with all the Green Cup Challenge schools!
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