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Rebuild Iowa
Student Energy Use Behavior Changes
Bio Fuels
Year 2000 Iowa GGI Inventory
Simple Living Initiatives
Yards for Kids
Value Added
Sole Power
Waste Reduction
Imagining Tomorrow
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Free Educational Materials
You can borrow these materials by emailing us at higby@uni.edu, calling (319) 273-6012, stopping by CEEE 111, or filling your desired material's form mailing it to CEEE Rm 111/ University of Northern Iowa/ Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0293. Click on each of the following to see what we have:
Click here to check availability of the above resources and/or to make sure you're on the list.
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Educating Students for Behavior Changes in Energy Use
Project of the Iowa Energy Center |
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| The goal of this research project is to reduce energy use in UNI residence halls by empowering students to change their behaviors using student-directed activities as change agents. The long-range goal is to encourage/help students establish a lifelong sensitivity to energy use and know how they can change their own behavior. This website is for educators who want to replicate this project. |
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BioFuel Resource Page |
| Temporary page that will contain new papers, articles, links, etc concerning bio fuel chemistry, industry, and the environment. |
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Year 2000 Iowa Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory |
| Iowa was among the first states to accept the challenge of quantifying its atmospheric burden of greenhouse gases, creating a baseline inventory for 1990. The intenet of this 2000 inventory is to update estimates of greenhouse gas emissions and gauge progress made toward greenhouse gas mitigation in the decade of the 1990's. |
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| Simple Living Initiatives Many people live at a pace that seems too fast and full of stress. This project has a purpose of developing tools that help Americans simplify. Simple Living Initiatives work with waste reduction, sustainable consumption, and simplicity issues. |  |
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| Yards for Kids
The goals of this project are to work with Waterloo/Cedar Falls metro area schools and parks officials, churches, child care centers, businesses to significantly reduce the use of lawn pesticides, and to carry out a variety of community-wide educational programs focused on practical alternatives to common home and garden pesticides. |
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Value Added
QUANTIFYING THE AMOUNT OF ENERGY SAVED BY RECYCLING
The energy required to produce paper, plastics, glass, and metal from recycled materials is generally less than the energy required to produce them from virgin feedstocks. This indicates a substantial “value added” component of energy conservation to the commonly recognized benefits of recycling. Because of rising cost and pollution from energy use, the energy saved by recycling is becoming more and more important. The objective of our research is to calculate the amount of energy saved by recycling. |
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Sole Power
This program is now sponsored by UNI's Wellness and Recreation Services. For additional information, such as handouts, please visit the CEEE. |
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Waste Reduction
This website's mission is to provide formal and nonformal educators with resources, lesson plans and a forum for information exchange to facilitate education about waste primarily in K-12 classrooms. |
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| Rebuild Iowa - Conservation City |
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| The aim of this program is to increase energy efficiency in Cedar Falls, and demostrate the numerous benefits that accrue as the community realizes its full potential for reducing energy consumption. Included among these benefits are increasing disposable income, creating jobs, improving air quality, and reducing emissions of the greenhouse gas CO2. |
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Imagining Tomorrow
Coming soon to this location is a link to http://www.itomorrow.theforesightproject.org/ and a link that will take you to the video "Kids Can Make It Happen."
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