Mission Statement

We, the students of the Environmental Studies Senior Seminar hope to educate and inspire students, faculty and staff of Mount Holyoke College through our efforts and research contained within this website. We aim to achieve a more sustainable campus by promoting environmental responsibility, conservation of resources, energy efficiency, and increased reliance on renewable energy sources.

Energy Initiative Homepage

Campus Energy

Dorm Heating & Energy
Campus Energy Surveys
Earth Day 2004

Energy Conservation

Green Buildings

Renewable Energy

Green Campuses Nationwide
Codes of Conduct
Eco-Villages
Looking Into the Future
What Can You Do?
References
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References

Campus Energy


Dorm Heating & Energy


Energy Conservation
--Flavin, Christopher, and Durning, Alan. Building on Success: The age of Energy Efficiency. Worldwatch Paper 82, 1988.
--Hollander, Jack M. The Energy-Environment Connection. Island Press Washington D.C., 1992.
Lechner, Norbert. Heating, Cooling, Lighting Design Methods for Architects. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1991.
--Sioros, Donna. Building for the 21st Century: Energy and the Environment.Georgia: The Fairmont Press inc, 2000.
--U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment. Building Energy Efficiency. Washington, D.C. U.S. Government Printing Office 1992.
--The Energy Conservation Idea Handbook. Prepared with the support of the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation. Academy for Educational Development. American Council on Education. Washington D.C. 1980.
--Energy Star. http://www.energystar.gov
--U.S. Department of Energy .http://www.eere.energy.gov/buildings/index.cfr?flash=yes
--U.S. Department of Energy. http://www.eere.energy.gov/buildings/university/index.cfm?flash=yes

Green Buildings
--Green Colby April 28, 2004. April 2004. <http://www.colby.edu/eag/>
--LEED Rating System 2003. April 2004. <http://www.usgbc.org/Docs/LEEDdocs/3.4xLEEDRatingSystemJune01.pdf>
--L. Robert Kimball and Associates 2003. April 2004. <http://www.lrkimball.com/Architecture%20and%20Engineering/ae_experience_green_objectives.htm>
--PixelWiz Studios 2000-2003. April 2004.<http://www.pixelwiz.net/photo/construction.jpeg>
--United States Green Building Council 2003. April 2004.<http://www.usgbc.org/leed/leed_main.asp>
-- Green Builder Program: A Sustainable Approach<http://www.sustainable.doe.gov/success/gdp.shtml>
-- National Renewable Energy Laboratory, High Perfomance Buildings <http://www.nrel.gov/buildings/highperformance/ >


Renewable Energy

--About Solar Energy - National Renewable Energy Laboratory -<http://www.nrel.gov/clean_energy/solar.html>
--Geothermal Technologies Program - U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency and renewable Energy, <http://www.eere.energy.gov/geothermal/>
--Annual Energy Review 2002. Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration - Posted: October 24, 2003.
--Small Hydropower Systems. July 200. May 2004 - National Renewable Energy Laboratory <http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy01osti/29065.pdf>
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D.L. Elliott and M.N. Schwartz. Wind Energy Potential in the United States. September 1993. May 2004. National Wind Technology Center. <http://www.nrel.gov/wind/wind_potential.html>


Green Campuses Nationwide
Brown is Green. 2 May 2004 <http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Brown_Is_Green/>
Harvard Green Campus Initiative
. 2 May 2004 < http://www.greencampus.harvard.edu/index.php#>
Students Engaged in Eco-Defense. 2 May 2004 < http://www.lclark.edu/%7Eseed/>
Middlebury Environmental Council.
2 May 2004 <http://community.middlebury.edu/%7Eenviroc/>
UB Green
. 2 May 2004 < http://wings.buffalo.edu/ubgreen/index.htm>
CU Environmental Center
. 2 May 2004 <http://www.colorado.edu/cuenvironmentalcenter/index.html>



Codes of Conduct

Authoring a Code: Observations on Process and Organization. May 2004. <http://www.iit.edu/departments/csep/PublicWWW/codes/coe/Writing_A_Code.html>
Codes of Conduct 2000. May 2004. <http://www.codesofconduct.org>
Guidelines for Writing a Code of Ethics/Conduct 2003. May 2004. <http://www.fei.org/download/DT_CodeGuidelines.pdf>

Ten WRITING TIPS for Creating an Effective Code of Conduct. May 2004. <http://ethics.org/code_writing.html>

Eco-Villages
Sirius Community Website:

Global Ecovillage NEtwork
United Nations Development Program: Agenda 21