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Education Energy, Stephine Deeren, Stephanie Snook, Dustin Vandervest
Education Energy, Stephine Deeren, Stephanie Snook, Dustin Vandervest
LIB 322: Wicked Problems of Sustainability
Team Education Energy formed at Grand Valley State University’s Traverse City campus in the winter of 2015 through a course called “Wicked Problems in Sustainability” (LIB 322). For their project Team Education Energy reached out to Traverse City West Middle School with the idea to create an energy fair. The mission of the project was to help promote ideas of environmental stewardship and to engage and utilize student’s creativity in contributing to the solution of energy efficiency and energy use. The middle school students formed teams and used these concepts to determine what energy efficiency improvements could be made within …
Team Earthship, Alaina Maceachern, Katie Riling, Mandy Thompson
Team Earthship, Alaina Maceachern, Katie Riling, Mandy Thompson
LIB 322: Wicked Problems of Sustainability
Through a Grand Valley State University course on “Wicked Problems in Sustainability”, our team was formed focusing on energy efficiency. Inefficient energy within our homes is one of the biggest culprits in unsustainable energy use; “The amount of energy wasted by 75,000 average American homes in a single year is equal to the waste that occurred in the 2010 BP Oil Spill” (erc-co.org). Looking at more energy efficient ways of living, we explored Earthships. “The Earthship is the epitome of sustainable design and construction. No part of sustainable living has been ignored in this ingenious building” (earthship.com). As a design …
Boardman Lake Trail, Kelsey Stephenson, Earl Whitney, Sarah Carden, Blase Masserant
Boardman Lake Trail, Kelsey Stephenson, Earl Whitney, Sarah Carden, Blase Masserant
LIB 322: Wicked Problems of Sustainability
Today in the United States, a significant portion of energy use is devoted to transportation needs. To address sustainable energy use in transportation, Team Wicked Awesome formed in the class LIB 322: “Wicked Problems in Sustainability” at Grand Valley State University in the winter of 2015. Looking to wicked problem solving methods, we examined Traverse City’s need for alternative options for transportation (other than single occupant vehicles). As an alternative mode of transportation, we looked into a number of ways to promote bicycle ridership and came to discover there was a tentative plan to complete a portion of the Traverse …