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Programs
 Iowa
Energy Poster Contest
The Iowa Energy Poster Contest
is a popular educational experience for school children in grades
1-6. The contest promotes renewable energy resources and energy efficiency
among Iowa school children.
 Iowa
Electrathon
The Iowa Electrathon is an exciting
program for high school students to design, build, and race small, one-person
electric vehicles.
 Rebuild
Iowa - Conservation City
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.
Sole
Power This program is now sponsored by UNI's Wellness and Recreation Services. For
additional information, such as handouts, please visit the CEEE.
The goals of this project is to encourage students in the grades sixth through eighth to learn more about renewable energy sources. This program is sponsored by Iowa Energy Center. For questions about the Iowa Junior Solar Sprint, please contact (319) 273-3850 or e-mail JrSolarSprint@uni.edu.
 Educating Students for Behavior Changes in Energy Use Project of the Iowa Energy Center
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.
Cedar Valley Solar Tour
The National Solar Tour is an annual event held by The American Solar Energy Society (ASES). Thousands of homes and buildings are opened throughout the country to provide the public with an opportunity to experience solar power, solar heating, cooling, and hot-water, wind power, daylighting, and green building technologies.
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Environmental
Programs
Environmental
Issues Instruction
This program is specifically designed
to train teachers in environmental issues and concepts that can be introduced
into their classrooms and help to bring students to take positive environmental
action.
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.
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.
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.
Local Food Project
Find out how you can strengthen the local food economy in Iowa through a variety of means. Also see a short history of the work and accomplishments of the Local Food Project and find out why it is important to buy locally-grown food. Find out where you can find locally-grown food in Black Hawk County and neighboring counties.
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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Center for Energy and Environmental
Education
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0293
Phone: (319) 273-2573
Fax: (319) 273-7140
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