Project examples:
University of Oxford
1. Web Site development -. A concentrated attempt at bringing the information on all our green, environmental and sustainability issues, plans, initiatives and successes to the public.
2. Transport - In a City where the car is viewed as an enemy, and the University has very few car parking places, much effort has to go into planning how people can get to work, and around the city without the need for personal motorised transport. This inevitably leads to a reliance on public transport especially for the more widespread locations of the University - yet the available public transport does not run at the times or between the locations most useful to us. Help is required for our transport manager to plan and set up contracts with local public transport providers to run routes that will work for us together with balancing the subsidy/ profit equation.
3. Waste - We need to manage our waste better - recycle more and produce less - and for this, we need to plan a way forward; negotiate University-wide contracts, and devise ways of 'selling' this to the University's departments, and also introduce ways of measuring waste production/ recycling so that we can begin to tackle the bigger problem of producing too much. This would be undertaken in conjunction with our waste manager, Kate Aydin and the procurement department of Finance as well as meeting administrators in a variety of departments.
4. Energy Audits - We are about to embark on a comprehensive and thorough survey of energy use in each of our buildings - with a target of hitting the highest 20 users this year. The surveys (which will be conducted by external consultants) will form the basis of an action plan for each building on how we might reduce energy usage - or more importantly - carbon production from it by a significant amount. We anticipate this will be a range of physical interventions and management practices.
Australian National University
1. Marketing Plan for ANUgreen
ANUgreen would like to see a marketing plan developed that provides a template for the who, what, why, when, and where’s of marketing throughout the year. Who needs to be contacted for inclusion in O-week activities, when do we need to get snippets into the annual student diary, how do we get info into new resident welcome packs at the halls and colleges, etc. This project would also involve work on the ANUgreen website and has the potential to include a whole range of other interesting features such as development of a sustainability blog, wiki and podcast.
2. Performance and Visual Art for Sustainability
ANUgreen would like to use a variety of means to reach the campus community and beyond. This project would facilitate community engagement in art for sustainability and might include events around poetry, music, sculpture in the landscape, design, etc. The intern would also ensure that these events are captured through photography, YouTube, podcasts, etc.
3. Green Building Research at ANU
This project would encompass a variety of green building features dependent on the student’s interest. It might include a feasibility study of green and brown roofing versus better insulation, feasibility of small scale wind power, research into minimizing the impact of laboratories through process cooling units, research on heating and cooling ie. heat recovery technology, influencing user behaviour, thermal modelling and retrofitting for efficiency.
4. Promotion of the ANU Green Loan Fund
ANU has a three million dollar green loan fund dedicated to reduce the environmental impact of activities associated with our teaching and research. The intern would work closely with other interns and staff members to market the fund and to identify opportunities for green loan applications.
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