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Meet the Spring 2025 Green Campus Enterprise!🌱

Meet the Spring 2025 Green Campus Enterprise!🌱

Our enterprise contains teams working on Auqaponics, Carbon Footprint, Rain Gardens, Composting, Solar Power, and more! 📚

Sound interesting❔Drop by our weekly meetings, DOW 875 at 5 PM on Thursdays! 💚

Meet the Enterprise!🌱 Want to learn more stop

Meet the Enterprise!🌱

Want to learn more stop by our meetings! Every week at 5 PM in DOW 875! 🍃

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Had such a blast working in our statue during all

Had such a blast working in our statue during all nighter!❄️

Thank you all the members who spent time working on it!🙌

See everyone next Thursday!💚

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Meet the Advisors!🌿 This semester we have thre

Meet the Advisors!🌿

This semester we have three advisors, Rob, Alan, and Lauren. Learn more about them below!👇

“ Hello I’m Dr. Robert Handler, I’m an assistant professor for Chemical Engineering. I got my Bachelors in Chemistry and a PhD in Environmental Engineering. I’m a huge fan of anything outside and hanging out with my kids. I wanted to get involved in Green Campus due to their previous projects! This semester I’m advising the Carbon Footprint, Solar, Waste Heat, Aquaponics, and Bioretention teams! “

“ My name is Alan Turnquist, I am the Director of Sustainability and Resilience. I have a Law degree and my Masters in Applied Economics. I enjoy cooking, baking, and love to ski! I wanted to get involved because Green Campus is a great opportunity for students to get involved with sustainability. This semester I am assisting with the Composting, Heat Pump, and Carbon Footprint Team. “

“ Hi, I’m Lauren Furey and I am the Manager of Sustainability Programs and Outreach. I have an MA in German and MS in Environment and Sustainability. I love being outside especially with my dog, Leela. I thought Green Campus was super fulfilling and motivating for students as they get to see their work impact their community. This semester I am awaiting the Hancock GHG team. “

Come meet our advisors in person❕ Stop by our meeting tonight, 5pm in DOW 875! 🌱

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🌱TEAM HIGHLIGHT🐟 This week we’d like to i

🌱TEAM HIGHLIGHT🐟

This week we’d like to introduce this past semester Aquaponics team! Made up of Ray Busnzli, a 5th year Chemical Engineering major, Joey Gannon, 4th year Chemical Engineering major, Emily Johnson, a 2nd year Environmental Engineering and Erin Loeschmann, a 2nd year Sustainability Science and Anthropology double major.

Read more about what the team did this semester! ⬇️

Aquaponics is a symbiotic relationship between plants and fish in which the fish help provide nutrients to plants and the plants help clean the water for fish. We are working on creating and implementing an aquaponics system into the bubble greenhouse on campus. Our goal is for it to serve as an educational opportunity to learn about biology, ecology, and sustainable agriculture. 🐠
Next semester, we plan to design a larger aquaponics system that may be used for research purposes. our team is additionally working with Keweenaw CAPE, an educational non-profit that is interested in aquaponics. We are working on helping them implement a system that works for their capacities.

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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.

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