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USFSP Going Green

The Tie Pilots
Brandon Zulli – Editor/Designer
Emily Glasser – Lead
Interviewer/Researcher
Jared Willey – Researcher
Grant Wiles - Researcher

ENC3250.795F15
Instructor: Dr. Tobienne, Jr.
University of South Florida
140 7th Ave S, St. Petersburg, FL
33701
November 11th, 2015

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Table of Contents

Introduction……………………………………………………….3
Executive Summary…………………………………………….3
USFSP and Going Green………………………………………3
USFSP Going Green Social Media………………………..4
USFSP Going Green Projects……………………………….6
Part 1 - Solar Energy…………………………………………...6
Part 2 - Green Energy Gym………………………………….9
Part 3 - Green Cleaning & Recycling…………………….9
Part 4 - Refillable Water Bottle Stations……………..11
Conclusion………………………………………………………….13
Annotated Bibliography………………………………………14
Works Cited…………………………………………………………15
Glossary……………………………………………………………….16

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Introduction
The purpose of this
paper is to document the
efforts that the University of
South Florida has went
through to move towards
going green. This paper will
go into detail about what the
University has done to reach
out to students to go green,
how the school received
funding for these projects,
what projects the school has
done already and how they
work, and what future projects
the school has planned. A
series of extensive research
will be the primary foundation
of this white paper.

Executive Summary
The University of South
Florida is one of the top
universities in the nation to
push to “go green”. USF is
extremely committed to build
a healthy, sustainable
communities. Efforts to go
green have been recognized
by organizations such as
RecycleMania and STARS; as

well as the funding for the
projects from on campus
groups such as the Student
Green Energy Fund on each
campus. The Green Energy
Fund on each campus has
been responsible for funding
most of the school’s large
scale projects. Some of these
projects include the solar
array on top of the USF St.
Petersburg campus’s parking
garage, the water bottle
refilling stations, the electric
charging stations, and the LED
lights in the parking garages.
These are just some projects
the school has done to move
more towards going green.
The results from these
projects have improved each
campus significantly. Even
though the university has
doubled in size over the years,
the implementation of the
water bottle refilling stations
has maintained its water
consumption significantly. The
solar panels that were
installed on top of the St.
Petersburg parking garage
generate 164,250k kWh per
year. While the average
energy consumption for the
school is relatively high, this
amount that the panels save
is very significant. With more
projects being completed
each year, the school is going
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to continue to push towards
more sustainability methods
for every campus.

USFSP & Going Green
The Green movement has taken
a high priority in many different
schools, universities, business,
corporations, and government
projects. How can we complete the
task at hand while being as
environmentally efficient as possible?
That is the question that is assessed
before all of these green projects/tasks
are started. There are many prerequisites needed and much
preparation necessary before any
environmentally safe project can be
started. It takes a lot of planning,
critical thinking, and innovation to be
made possible. USF St. Petersburg
makes a great effort to take on this
tough task of green innovation. These
type of things can be very costly, the
type of equipment, R&D, and time to
be put in require much more time,
money, and effort to implement.
Although this can seem unnecessary
to implement, it can be very beneficial
once started for USF and it will save
many resources, we are preserving the
earth one step at a time. Why would
people go through so much trouble to
be green or energy and resource
efficient? Why wouldn’t we just keep
going on the same path we have been
this whole time? Obviously the
world’s resources are finite, but by the

time we can put this into action would
it be worth it? The answer is an
absolute yes. The reasoning behind
this goes beyond just being energy
efficient and saving resources, it is
our duty to protect and be smart with
what we are blessed to live with.
Everything we see, use, and create are
made from finite resources, none of
these things are unlimited, and if we
are smart while using it we can
continue to live without worrying
about scarcity. If we run everything
dry our normal lives as we know it
will change drastically. As a group,
we will soon explain how USF St.
Petersburg utilizes green methods and
innovation to protect what we love.

USFSP Going Green Social
Media
Raising awareness about
the benefits and ways a
campus can go green is one of
the first steps to becoming a
sustainable campus. Without
motivation, education, and
encouragement students will
not put the effort into helping
the going green process. One
of the best ways to
communicate with the
younger generation is through
social media and other digital
devices. The quickest and
most effective ways to spread
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news on campus is through
Facebook, twitter, and the
schools website. This is due to
the fact that students are
already so active on these
sites that they will not miss
the opportunity to learn more
about the going green
process. Our school has
already joined these three
sites and have already taken
steps to use them to raise
awareness. Each social media
site is used a little bit
differently depending on the
format of the site. USFSP’s
going green twitter name is
@BullsGoGreen. This twitter
account is still very new and
had its first posting on
October 23rd, 2015. This site
stays active in the student
community by retweeting
other student’s accounts that
show how they are staying
active in the going green
campaign. This motivates
other students to continue to
make that extra effort to help
the environment.
@BullsGoGreen also offers the
opportunity to communicate
and ask questions with the
staff of the site by inviting
their followers to message
them through twitter. Another
benefit of using twitter is the
#hashtag feature. This allows
anyone to create or add to a

certain topic by including a
hashtag in front of the word or
phrase. @BullsGoGreen has
added a hashtag titled,
#BullsGoGreen. Here, many
students have tagged
sentences, ideas, and pictures
to raise awareness about the
campus and their own efforts
to go green. The next social
media site is Facebook. SGEF
USFSP is the user’s name on
this page which stands for,
Student Green Energy Fund
University of South Florida St.
Petersburg. This site compiles
a bunch of things such as
news stories, challenges,
information, and more
opportunities of
communication. First, and
most recently, the members
of SGEP USFSP have started a
challenge between different
clubs and organizations on
campus. This challenge is
called Race for the Watts. It
has not only raised awareness
but has helped generate extra
energy on campus. Race for
the Watts takes place yearly,
beginning in 2013, in the
USFSP gym. The event takes
place over a period of time
and was extended this year in
2015 due to such a high
interest and activity. The
participants used the gyms off
the grid energy equipment
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which is powered by its users.
The bikes, curve treadmills,
rowers, and ellipticals are all
powered by the energy
created when being used. This
real time energy is used to
power the machine’s fans and
lights rather than plugging it
into an outlet. This challenge
raises awareness to people
who are members of this
Facebook page, as well as the
members that are
participating in the challenge.
SGEF USFSP keeps the clubs
motivated by posting updates
on who is 1st, 2nd, and 3rd.
There is also an individual
challenge that recognizes
students for their own usage.
This Facebook page also
invites students to do their
own research on new efforts
to go green on campus. The
site includes steps on how to
get your own idea funded. The
rest of this site includes
information and overall
motivation to get students
active on campus and spread
ideas of awareness for going
green. The final site that
USFSP uses to spread
awareness is its own
educational site, http://
www.usfsp.edu/sustainability/s
gef/. This page is about the
Student Green Energy Fund
and how it is run on our

campus. The home page on
this site give some
background information as to
how the organization is run,
who approved them, meeting
times, and the chair. The body
paragraph tells the readers
that the projects are funded
by $0.75 per credit hour green
fee from each student. By
contributing this amount
students have the opportunity
to vote on things related to
the group on campus. Every 3
years students have the
chance to reaffirm the fee
associated with the group.
The funds are used to assist in
the going green effort by
promoting power, clean up,
renewable energy
technologies, and lowering
greenhouse gas emissions.
This site also has other tabs to
help students understand,
participate, and communicate
with the group. Some of these
tabs are titled, Committee
Members, Project Proposals,
Bylaws, Minutes, Schedule/
Events, and Approved
Projects.

USFSP Going Green
Projects
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The USF St. Petersburg
campus has completed a
numerous amount of
sustainability and going green
projects that people can see
all over campus. The school
has multiple methods to get
funding for every project that
is brought to the table. Some
of these funding sources
include the go green fee
which has the university
charging $0.75 per credit
hour, The Green Energy Fund
group that is on campus, and
grants given to the university
by big energy corporations
such as Duke Energy. The
projects that will be discussed
more in depth in this paper
will include solar panel
energy, green cleaning,
refillable water bottle stations
around campus, and the
energy producing exercise
equipment that is in the gym
on campus. There are other
projects that have been
implemented on campus that
are noticed and used each
day. Some of these projects
include the recycling/trash
stations around campus, the
LED light filled parking
garage, and light sensors in
every building on campus.

Part 1

Solar Power
As we know, the sun is
the largest source of energy in
our solar system. With the
amount of energy that comes
off the sun each year, why not
take advantage of that energy
and harness it for ourselves?
The amount of energy that
hits our planet in the duration
of an hour, is more energy
that the entire world will use
in a year. Solar energy
technology harnesses the sun
for human use. But we have
only begun to tap into this
plentiful energy source. As
time progresses, the
technology that is being
created to harness this energy
will become more advanced
and less expensive. This will
allow everyday people to
purchase and use solar
energy for their own homes
and electric cars.

History of Solar Energy
Humans have always
tinkered with the idea of solar
energy. Ancient people and
civilizations have learned to
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harness solar energy to heat
their homes at night. People
have even figured out a way
to use glass and mirrors to
light fires using solar energy.
But it wasn’t until the 1950s
that solar energy was used to
create electricity. This was
done by using something
called photovoltaic cells, or
otherwise known to us as
solar panels. The basic
science of photovoltaic
technology was first
discovered in the late 1830s.
But the science behind this
has advanced significantly in
the 20th century. In 1954 Bell
Labs exhibits the first highpower silicon PV cell. Then in
1955 Western Electric sells
commercial license for silicon
PV technologies. Some of the
early successful products
using this PV technology
includes PV-powered dollar bill
chargers and devices that
decoded computer punch
cards and tape. The first ever
PV-array ever implemented
was used to power the radios
on the US Vanguard I space
satellite. Since the Vanguard
launch, innovative uses of
solar have been invented to
not only generate energy for
homes and buildings, but
move people in solar powered

cars, boats, and even
airplanes.

Types of Current Solar
Technology
Now, when we think of solar
panels, the first thing to come
to mind is the massive arrays
of solar farms that generate
electricity you have probably
seen all over the internet. But
there are multiple different
types of solar technology that
we use today.
 Passive Solar: Passive
solar doesn’t involve the
use of mechanical and
electric devices.
Windows, walls, and
floors collect, store and
distribute solar energy in
the form of heat in the
winter and reject solar
heat in the summer.
More and more homes
are being built to utilize
or deflect this type of
solar energy.
 Solar Thermal: Solar
thermal technology is
used for harnessing the
suns heat. Most people
today use solar thermal
panels to heat their
water in their homes. It is
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one of the most common
solar panels used in our
day to day life.
 Solar Photovoltaic:
Solar photovoltaic
technology is used for
producing electricity
from the sun using solar
cells, typically encased in
panels.
 Concentrated Solar:
Concentrated solar
technology is used for
producing electricity
from the sun using
mirrors (heliostats) to
concentrate a large area
of solar thermal energy
into a small area.
Electrical power is
produced when the
concentrated light is
converted to heat, which
drives a heat engine
(usually a steam turbine)
connected to an
electrical power
generator.

USFSP and Solar Energy
As USFSP continues their
going green projects, there
was one project that the
school wanted to do for the
St. Petersburg campus. This
project involved installing a

100-kilowatt (Kw) solar
photovoltaic system on the
top of the university’s Fifth
Avenue South parking garage.
These sells measure 7,100
square feet, with 328
individual panels. The energy
needs of USFSP average
approximately 19.1 million
kWh per year and solar panels
of this size can produce on
average about 164,250k kWh
of energy a year. Today, we
can see this project completed
and being put to good use.
These solar panels are being
used to power the lights in the
parking garage and they are
also being used to power the
electric charging stations on
the first floor of the parking
garage. Recently, Duke
Energy Florida and the
University of South Florida-St.
Petersburg unveiled a new
solar battery project that will
explore how to store and use
energy from the sun. The
funding for this research is
coming from a one million
dollar grant given to USFSP
from Duke Energy. The battery
project involves installing PVelectric batteries to store any
excess energy that gets
collected from the solar
panels. The grant also
involves funding research for
more sustainable projects the
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school has planned for the
future.

Part 2

USFSP Green Energy Gym
The USFSP gym has a loft
on their second floor called
Green Cardio Loft. This part of
the gym is run by the energy
created by its users. The
equipment includes Woodway
Curve treadmills, ellipticals,
and two types of machine
energy bikes. The treadmills
are not plugged into the wall.
The fans and display lights are
completely powered by its
users. The bikes and ellipticals
are connected to a cord that
sends the power generated by
its rider to a grid. This grid is
called off the grid energy and
is commonly used in
worldwide gyms to decrease
the overall power usage of the
gym. Other efforts our gym
has made to become more
sustainable has been adding
recycling bins throughout the
building. Things we could do
to further this going green
effort at the school and the
gym could be low power
consuming appliances.
Examples of these would be
LED television monitors, low
flow appliances in bathrooms
such as low flow faucets,

toilets and shower heads.
Though the gym was just
renovated we could also have
used bamboo as the flooring
in the yoga room. We also
could have replaced any
equipment with parts from
ones that are just sitting in
landfills. Another idea is a
board that displays how many
watts per day or week the
gym has generated. This will
help users understand how
much their contribution helps.
Though not at first, but years
down the road, by taking
these efforts, our gym will see
lower costs as a result of
switching to energy efficient
equipment. The price of
electricity is much less than
the cost of the equipment.

Part 3

Green Cleaning & Recycling
Green cleaning is a
method that the USF St.
Petersburg campus adopted
that focuses on cleaning up
the campus. There are many
ways to clean campuses,
more specifically bathrooms,
classrooms, and the interiors
of all buildings as well as
landscaping. A lot of these
methods contain harmful
chemicals that can destroy
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grass, trees, and other types
of brush around campus.
Destroying these things can
destroy animals and insects
that rely on them to survive. If
we destroy these animals and
plants how are we being
green by any standards? We
also harm marine wildlife be
using these harmful chemicals
outside near the bay. When it
rains or sprinkler systems
wash water down into the bay
through drainage systems it
also brings along the harmful
chemicals, fertilizers, and
other things collected in the
water directly into the ocean.
Every marine organism such
as fish, sharks, crabs, other
crustaceans all absorb these
harmful chemicals or eat
smaller organisms that have
absorbed them. This causes
the affected marine life to
either die, or go through
mutations because their
organizational structure isn’t
meant to come into contact
with such things. Then we as
humans catch these fish,
crabs, etc. and either sell
them or eat them which can
cause us to get sick or have
some other issue by
consuming the fish or marine
animals that have absorbed
the harmful chemicals, our
human bodies aren’t meant to

consume these chemicals
either. By helping the marine
life and other land animals by
avoiding to use these harmful
chemicals and fertilizers we
are essentially helping
ourselves at the same time.
These green cleaning
methods are used to help us
clean with keeping our
environment healthy at the
same time. The compounds or
substances put together lack
a lot of the harmful products
but instead only contain
substances such as: Baking
soda, vinegar, and lemons.
These things don’t harm the
environment and are
biodegradable, which means
they don’t last after used in
the environment they slowly
disappear not long after used
so the environment isn’t
exposed to them very long
(About.com/housekeeping/gre
en). Other than this other
green products use recycled
packaging and/or donate their
profits to environmental
organizations
(About.com/housekeeping/gre
en). These are methods for
the interior of buildings. There
are many alternatives to
exterior previous cleaning
methods, this includes:
pesticide management, use of
chemicals and pressure
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washings to clean exterior
sides of buildings,
landscaping, efficient use of
energy and water utilized for
all outside cleaning methods,
waste steam management,
environmentally preferred and
safe products implemented in
these processes, outdoor
cleaning quality (not done
quickly but efficiently and
carefully), and continuing
green programs to continue
improvement of exterior green
cleaning methods
(Issa.com/green-cleaning).
Most companies including
USFSP have to go through
certifications and policies
before using and
implementing these methods.
I believe this is a very good
thing because it needs to be
done correctly, so the time,
effort and money used, isn’t a
complete waste. Regulatory
companies help make sure of
this. Products used and
implemented by USFSP and
other companies to be used in
exterior cleaning methods
need to have the green care
seal located on it. This is also
regulated, if the product
doesn’t have that seal on it
then the substances it is
made up of cannot assuredly
be understood as
environmentally safe.

Although it may contain some
same compounds there also
may be some questionable
products infused as well, this
is usually as attempt for a
company to go around the
‘green’ method and save
some money while still
advertising their product to be
completely environmentally
safe (Issa.com/greencleaning). The process of
sustainability and
environmentally safe outdoor
cleaning doesn’t stop when
the cleaning ends. USFSP and
other companies that use this
are required to disposing,
dispensing, or recycling their
used products in the most
efficient way. Too many
business just leave their used
products in either garbage
can which can be dumped
over or dispersed by an
animal to end up scattered all
over the ground, and even
worse businesses just
sometimes leave the products
at the site without even taking
it to a garbage disposal or
recycling bin. What is the
point of green cleaning to
leave the site almost as bad
off as when they company or
business cleaning it arrived?
Also, the equipment used in
these methods, not the
cleaning products, but
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machines like pressure
washers, vacuums,
lawnmowers, hedgers, and
any other machine that is
similar and used for cleaning
methods needs to be certified
by a green cleaning program
and go through a test phase
to see if the machine is
energy efficient
(Issa.com/green-cleaning).
USFSP like other companies
can use indoor and outdoor
methods efficiently and at a
low cost through the proper
certifications, test phases, and
other pre plans.
USFSP also utilizes other
green methods to be energy
and resource efficient other
than indoor and outdoor green
cleaning methods. Battery
disposal and recycled
computer parts such as
chargers, and other parts that
can be issued out. USFSP
really makes a big impact with
these two methods. There are
many recycling dispels
located all over campus.
Because of these great
opportunities for students and
teachers to dispose of used
batteries and computer parts
USFSP can ‘reload’ or fix these
parts and components and
issue them back out to
whoever in need. This saves
everyone money and time by

not having to go out and
purchase more of these
things, instead we can just
keep recycling the same
products used until they are
unusable. USFSP, consumes a
lot let resources by doing this
which is why as a campus we
are making a big impact in the
environment and in the
community. We are meant to
live by example as USFSP
students and that is what this
campus as a whole is proving
to others, that being green
can be fun and very rewarding
when we start to see the
impact it has on those around
us and in the environment.

Part 4
Refillable Water Bottle
Stations
Cost of Maintaining Water
bottles in America.
As recycling gets more
popular the cost maintaining a
steady effort in collecting and
handling shall rise with it, the
effort to not only recycle but
reduce and reuse is becoming
a more eminent event with
the addition of refillable water
bottles along with water
fountains built with a filtered
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reusable water bottle fill
station.
Water
Bottle
Consumption

(recycle reduce and reuse)
instead of just recycling.

Energy

The recommended eight
glasses of water a day, at U.S.
tap rates equals about $.49
per year; that same amount of
bottled water is about $1,400.
To reach the demand of this
bottled water consumption in
America the cost equals out to
enough fuel to power 1.3
million cars for a whole year. It
is estimated that the waste
from using water bottles is
equivalent to the energy
power for 190,000 homes. The
solution
to
this
energy
consumption is a clear one
but usually not seen due to
the luxury of bottles, the
invention of the reusable
water bottle. The Recycling
cost per ton comes out to
$240 per ton, this amount
equals out to almost double
the cost to throw products
away. The movement to be
more green has now reached
a pivotal moment where the
cost to maintain a purely
recyclable lifestyle is now
longer applicable, the ever
rising fact that a green earth
must survive on all of the 3Rs

Reusable Bottles
The invention of the
Reusable water bottle has
become another stepping
stone in moving towards a
green earth. This invention
capitalizes on the Reduce and
Reuse aspects of
environmental awareness that
we seek to create a greener
earth. Not a new invention the
reusable bottle can range
from as low as $6 and fillable
the cost of water equaling out
to $1.60 per thousand gallons
from a tap along with a water
filtering system costing on
average usually $30 the cost
in miniscule to the amount of
$10.6 billion on bottled water
that America spent in 2009.
The introduction of a reusable
bottle into a person’s life also
has the chance to improve a
person’s health, all tap water
is safe and highly regulated
by the federal government
while the Food and Drug
Administration only regulates
the 30-40% of bottled water
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sold across state lines.
Another risk in using plastic
water bottles are phthalates
and BPA (Bisphenol A) both
are carcinogenic chemicals
and can seep into the water.

system. With the
implementation of these
stations it helps the University
of South Florida maintain its
waste and also improves the
water consumption rate for
the campus.

Conclusion
USF’s Movement for Reusing
USFSP contributes into
the movement of reusing
bottles with the addition of
The Elkay EZH2O bottle refill
station. Water fountains are
equipped with a bottle refill
station with integrated digital
screens showing students how
many bottles are being saved,
Bottle filling stations are
estimated to save 1500
plastic bottles annually. These
stations also include a hands
free fill sensor and a filtration

University
of
South
Florida St. Petersburg has
made many successful efforts
towards going green. The on
campus
committee
called
SGEF has set up a program to
fund these efforts in a way
where everyone is involved.
The campus has added things
from trash cans to huge solar
panels. The school has found
a way to get everyone
involved by raising awareness
within its community. Today
USFSP continues to make
strides towards going green.

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Annotated Bibliography
1.) Green Cleaning and LEED® for Existing Buildings: Operations and
Maintenance What’s the Connection? (n.d.): n. pag. Web.
http://www.issa.com/data/moxiestorage/regulatory_education/green_cleaning
/green-cleaning-and-leed-ebom_11-2-09.pdf
This pdf file explained in extreme detail on what green cleaning is and gave
several examples of how it works. This was an extremely helpful file for our
white paper.
2.) http://www.usfsp.edu/sustainability/waste/
This source explained the process of what the school does for recycling and
waste. The show pictures of all the recycling and waste areas around
campus.

3.) “USFSP News Center »Duke Energy to Invest $1 Million in USFSP Research
Project.” University of South Florida St Petersburg. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Nov.
2015.
http://www.usfsp.edu/blog/2014/09/18/duke-energy-to-invest-1-million-inusfsp-research-project/
This source goes into detail on the solar panel project. They also talk about
the one million dollar grant that Duke Energy gave the university to continue
doing more sustainable go green research. They also go on to explain what
future projects the school will be doing.

4.) “USF One of Nation’s Top Green Colleges.” – University of South Florida.
N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Nov. 2015.
http://news.usf.edu/article/templates/?a=2295
This article describes where the school is standing as far as sustainability
and go green status. They give a lot of great information that we used for the
executive summary and in some areas of the body of the white paper.

5.) “Solar Energy: Past, Present and Future – Green Mountain Energy
Company.” Green Mountain Energy Company. N.p., 04 June 2014. Web. 18
Nov. 2015.
https://www.greenmountainenergy.com/2014/06/solar-energy-past-presentfuture/

This site helped with all the solar panel and solar energy information. This
was a very vital site that gave a lot of good and vital information on the solar
energy section.

6.) “An Innovative Way to Making Your Campus More Sustainable: The
Student Green Energy Fund.” PriMEtime. N.p., 17 Dec. 2012. Web. 18 Nov.
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This article mainly talks about the go green energy fund. They also go on to
show what projects got funded by the go green energy fund group and what
projects are being planned for the future.
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This Article is a generalized information regarding The Student
Environmental Awareness Society (SEAS) and The Student Green Energy
Fund (SGEF). It goes into detail on the projects and movements the
university is taking to keep moving forward in the going green movement.

8.) “ELKAY | Elkay Unveils “Next Generation” Bottle Filling Station.” ELKAY |
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2015.
http://www.elkay.com/news-bottle-filling-station
This Website shows the features and benefits for the Elkay Bottle filling
stations, further going into the background of the company and their
movements forward into the sustainability in higher education.

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Glossary

 Passive Solar: Passive solar doesn’t involve the use of
mechanical and electric devices. Windows, walls, and floors
collect, store and distribute solar energy in the form of heat
in the winter and reject solar heat in the summer. More and
more homes are being built to utilize or deflect this type of
solar energy.
 Solar Thermal: Solar thermal technology is used for
harnessing the suns heat. Most people today use solar
thermal panels to heat their water in their homes. It is one of
the most common solar panels used in our day to day life.
 Solar Photovoltaic: Solar photovoltaic technology is used
for producing electricity from the sun using solar cells,
typically encased in panels.
 Concentrated Solar: Concentrated solar technology is
used for producing electricity from the sun using mirrors
(heliostats) to concentrate a large area of solar thermal
energy into a small area. Electrical power is produced when
the concentrated light is converted to heat, which drives a

heat engine (usually a steam turbine) connected to an
electrical power generator.
 Green Cleaning: refers to using cleaning methods and
products with environmentally friendly ingredients and
procedures which are designed to preserve human health
and environmental quality.

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