Jennifer Joslin

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One Less Hand-out? A Roundtable Discussion about
Eco-Friendly Advising

• Jennifer Joslin
• Lori Manson
• Terrie Minner
• The University of oregon

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The Plan

• Its not trivial
• Vampires
• Key trends
• Next steps!

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Living Green Its Not Trivial

• 1. A typical computer, monitor, and associated
  peripherals , if left on all day, can easily
  consume __________ cents worth of electricity a
  day (or ____ /year/system).  

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Living Green Its Not Trivial

• 2. Energy efficient laptops consume ____ of
  power per year.

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Living Green Its Not Trivial

• 3. Solar power, wind power, and wood burning are
  examples of renewable energy sources (true or
  false)?

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Living Green Its Not Trivial

• 4. The first Earth Day was celebrated in?
• A. 1962
• B. 1970
• C. 1972
• D. 1976

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Living Green Its Not Trivial

• 5. An example of an energy vampire is
• The office microwave
• Rechargeable battery-pack for the office
  dust-buster or cell phone
• The office television or VCR
• All of the above

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Living Green Its Not Trivial

• 6. About 9 of your buildings facilities costs
  come from
• Lighting
• Cooling
• Heating
• Energy used by vending machines, computers, and
  drinking fountains

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Living Green Its Not Trivial

• We order ____ reams of paper every year in our
  office and its ____ post-consumer recycled
  paper

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How Are Vampires Involved Again?

• Common terms
• Sustainability
• Energy vampires
• Delamping
• Plug loads
• Carbon footprint

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Thinking Green Key Trends

• It all started with AdvisorTrac

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Thinking Green Key Trends

• Were asking these questions
• Is it possible for advising to be sustainable?
• How does technology-reliance affect advising?
• How do we retrain ourselves and our students?
• What questions are you asking?
• What questions should we ask as a field?

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Thinking Green Key Trends

• Collective thoughts

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Thinking Green Key Trends

• Collective thoughts

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Thinking Green Key Trends

• Collective thoughts

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Thinking Green Key Trends

• Collective thoughts

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Next Steps

• Living Green
• Self-assess, set goals, communicate, evaluate
• Thinking Green

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Living Green Resources

• Checklists for office (and home) environments
• CalTech
• http//sustainability.caltech.edu/purchasing/Gree
  nOfficeChecklist
• Northwestern
• http//www.northwestern.edu/fm/operations/recycli
  ng/additional20information.html (click on
  Sustainable Office Checklist)

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Blog Resources

• Great site with green blogs (in English
  Spanish)
• National Resource Defense Fund
• http//www.nrdc.org/blogs/
• The Society of Environmental Journalists
  regularly updates a list of environmental blogs
• http//www.sej.org/resource/blogs.htm

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Resources

• Nationwide initiatives
• Power Down for the Planet- campuses pledge to
  reduce energy consumption
• http//www.powerdownfortheplanet.org/

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For Your Web Site

• We think about our
• carbon footprint
• .gif file for all attendees

Thanks to Katie Schumm for her technical
assistance!
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The University of Oregon

• Office of Academic Advising
• Jennifer Joslin Lori Manson
• jjoslin_at_uoregon.edu loric_at_uoregon.edu
• Terrie Minner
• tminner_at_uoregon.edu