Document Actions
UO E-clips, Sept. 4
Top stories for September 4, 2008: UO's Climate Masters program, heading into Springfield, is part of the climate solution, writes the Register-Guard; volunteering at the UO art museum is a topic covered by KVAL 13-TV; and the Daily Journal of Commerce reports that the UO is looking to build co-generation plant
Climate Masters become part of solution (Register-Guard): Calling all Springfield residents: The Climate Masters program wants you. No, it doesn’t mean you’ll be able to order up the kind of weather you want for your next picnic, but it will give you a chance to learn how to control your own household’s greenhouse gas emissions and, as the adage says, be part of the solution instead of the problem of global warming. ... The University of Oregon’s Climate Leadership Initiative developed the program, which aims to change the idea that ordinary people have no power to control -- or reverse -- global warming.
Learn more about volunteering at the UO art museum (KVAL 13 News): The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon is recruiting volunteer exhibition interpreters to provide tours for K-12 students, college students and the general public. Volunteers can learn more at a free, recruitment social, on Tuesday, Sept. 9 at 10 a.m. The 12-month training program for new guides begins in October and offers instruction on museum education, inquiry-based discussion, visual thinking strategies, public speaking, art history and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art's collection.
UO looks to build co-gen plant (Daily Journal of Commerce): The University of Oregon is planning to replace its gas-fired central power plant with a 17 megawatt cogeneration facility. On Friday the school will ask the Oregon Board of Higher Ed for permission to request $21 million in article XI bonds from the state legislative emergency board. The money would help pay for phase 1 of the project to build a new chiller plant, cooling tower and upgrade the electrical grid for a total cost of $34 million. The 2007 legislature already approved $13 million to retrofit the old plant, but a study of the project revealed a much greater need for a full replacement, according to the university. The project would help meet the OUS goal of shrinking its carbon footprint. The only wrinkle (besides securing the funding) is that the school doesn't yet know what alternative energy source would power the cogeneration facility. Biomass? Landfill gas?