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🔥TEAM HIGHLIGHT🔥 This week we are showcasin

🔥TEAM HIGHLIGHT🔥

This week we are showcasing our Sustainability Demonstration House Heat Pump Team! Team members include Chemical Engineering major Lola Mull, Mechanical Engineering major Collin Wisnieweski, and Environmental Engineering major Leah Komarzac.

This is one of our newest teams formed in spring 2024 to design a heat pump system to replace the outdated boiler in the SDH. The team has been working closely with local contractors and manufacturers to choose the best system for our cold weather months!

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💧TEAM HIGHLIGHT💧 Meet our Rain Gardens Team

💧TEAM HIGHLIGHT💧

Meet our Rain Gardens Team! This is our biggest team this semester! Made up of Lydia Minzey, Addison Jeltema, Katherine Schneider who are all 3rd year Environmental Engineering majors. Along with Allison Dolan who is a 4th year Environmental Engineering major, Paige McKeen a 5th year Environmental Engineering major, and Anna Kavanaugh who is a 5th year majoring in Environmental Engineering and Sustainability Science! 🌿

The team was started last year as a way to address the decreased walkability on campus from rain and snow melt. The team is designing rain gardens to be implemented around campus and near Lot 26 to reduce water accumulation on campus, filter pollutants in stormwater entering the Portage, and create a designated space for increasing native biodiversity and ecosystems on campus. 🌧️

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Happy Halloween!! 🎃 The GCE celebrated the sea

Happy Halloween!! 🎃
The GCE celebrated the season by carving pumpkins! (p.s. when your pumpkin starts looking sad remember they’re compostable!)
We hope you celebrate safely (and sustainably!) this Halloween 🐈‍⬛👻🧙‍♀️

🍃TEAM HIGHLIGHT🍃 Meet our Composting Team!

🍃TEAM HIGHLIGHT🍃

Meet our Composting Team! Composed of Claire, a second year Environmental Engineering major and Paige, a fourth year Environmental Engineering major!🍃

Paige and Claire are currently working with WUDDPR on a big project for a large scale composting system that MTU hopes to be apart of!
Our composting teams have done a lot in the past when it comes to working on campus but this is the first project involving the larger community and municipalities! 🌱

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🌱TEAM HIGHLIGHT🌱 For the first team highlig

🌱TEAM HIGHLIGHT🌱

For the first team highlight of the semester we are showcasing our Waste Heat Team! This semesters team is made up of 4th-year Chemical Engineering Major Caroline Brown and 3rd-year Chemical Engineering Majors Olivia Amash and Owen Stauffer.

The Waste Heat Team has worked on a variety of projects throughout its lifetime, with this years project targeting the HVAC system in the Chemical Sciences and Engineering Building. Researching technologies including loop coils, enthalpy wheels, and heat recovery chillers, the team is designing a system to increase efficiency and reduce required utilities to heat the ChemSci.

Stay tuned to hear more about what our other teams are working on this semester! 💚🐛🪴

We had such a blast at Enterprise Day yesterday!💚
We hope to see more curious faces at our meetings! Every Thursday @ 5pm in Dow 875 🤓🌱

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Meet our 2024 Green Campus Enterprise!🌱 Be on

Meet our 2024 Green Campus Enterprise!🌱

Be on the lookout for team spotlights!🌼

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We had a blast at K-day, our first recruiting even

We had a blast at K-day, our first recruiting event of the year!! Thank you to everyone who stopped by to chat with us and a special thanks to @s4s_mtu and @mtu.sdh for letting us share their table.

We’re extremely excited to have added several new project teams this year, so keep an eye out for upcoming team highlights for more information on what we’re up to 💚🌿🐛

GCE had a great time at Enterprise Day meeting pro

GCE had a great time at Enterprise Day meeting prospective new members and sharing all of our projects! Thank you to everyone who stopped by and we look forward to seeing some new faces at our meetings every Thursday at 5 pm in DOW875 💚🌱🐛

GCE had fun curling last weekend! 🥌🥌🥌 Th

GCE had fun curling last weekend! 🥌🥌🥌

This week in Green Campus, four of our project teams will be presenting what they've been working on this semester. Join us this Thursday (2/22) at 5pm in Dow 875 for presentations from our on-campus composting, Houghton County waste audit, aquaponics, and waste heat teams! Prospective enterprise members are encouraged to attend!

Last week, we started our final presentations for

Last week, we started our final presentations for the fall semester! These presentations are a great way for our teams to showcase the results of all their hard work this semester. Pictured here our our Composting and Bioretention teams.

Tomorrow we will hear from the Carbon Foot Print, Aquaponics, and Waste Audit teams. If you are interesting in hearing about any of these projects please join us in DOW875 at 5pm! 🌿🐛♻️💚

On October 12th, we started this semesters team pr

On October 12th, we started this semesters team presentations! We had the pleasure of hearing from the Waste Heat, Bioretention, and Composting teams. These presentations are a great time to learn about the goals each teams are hoping to accomplish and the progress they have made so far this semester.

If you are interested in hearing from the Aquaponics, Waste Audit, and Carbon Footprinting team please join us in Dow 875 at 5pm on October 26th!! 💚🌱🐛

This semester, we're going to periodically take ti

This semester, we're going to periodically take time to spotlight the work our enterprise teams are doing. This week, we're spotlighting our carbon footprinting team!

The carbon footprinting team works to establish both a location based and a market based model for the amount of CO2 created directly or indirectly by Michigan Technological University. Location based reporting models emissions from electricity consumption proportional to the local power grids average emission intensity - where market based models offsets emissions in accordance with the wind credits MTU purchases.

The first two pictures are examples of 2022 carbon footprint from both perspectives, and the second two pictures are timelines of how MTU's emissions have changed over time.

Our carbon footprinting team is now working on creating a carbon footprint for the 2023 fiscal year, and retrieving all data and creating calculations associated with that process.

Green Campus Enterprise meets every week, from 5-6pm, in DOW 875. We're always recruiting and love to see new faces, so you should stop by and say hi!

Along with our returning members, lots of new face

Along with our returning members, lots of new faces have joined Green Campus Enterprise this semester. Be on the lookout for future updates on the projects we are working on to make our campus more sustainable! 💚🌱🐛

We had a great time meeting a bunch of new faces a

We had a great time meeting a bunch of new faces at K-Day! Did you have time to stop by our booth and see our diagram of MTU's carbon footprint?

Green Campus meets every week, on Thursdays at 5-6pm in DOW 875.

GCE had a great time at the Sustainability Expo at

GCE had a great time at the Sustainability Expo at Walker Lawn last Friday! We also had a dog.

Our first meeting of the semester is this Thursday August 31st at 5pm in Dow 875. Everyone is welcome!

Interested in what Green Campus has been up to thi

Interested in what Green Campus has been up to this year? Here's some information about what our Wast Heat team had achieved!

The first three photos are from our first project, working with the EERC sidewalk to design a snow melt system which utilitizes heat generated from the nearby server room. A water glycol will be run through the pex pipes shown in the picture underneath the pavement at a high enough temperature to melt snow and ice. This project is nearly finished, we're just waiting on a few more details to be finalized.

As we've been waiting for details regarding the sidewalk, we' transitioned our focus towards the dow. Photo number 4 shows one of the dows water chillers, and photo number 5 shows one of the vents outputting hot air into the environment. Both of these provide excess heat to be harnessed, and we're working through how and where to apply that heat right now!

If you're interested in more information, please feel free to visit us at our meetings on Thursday from 5-6pm in Dow 875. We're currently doing final presentations, so now is a great time to swing by and see what all our teams have accomplished this semester!

Happy syrup season everyone!

Happy syrup season everyone!

Representing Green Campus at Spring FLARE was real

Representing Green Campus at Spring FLARE was really special! It was great to expierience this event for the first time of hopefully many more!

Had a great time meeting all of you at Enterprise

Had a great time meeting all of you at Enterprise Day and sharing about our projects to improve our campus!

Thank you to everyone who stopped by!!

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