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Wednesday 1PM /Carpooling to increase fuel efficiency/  Abby Moton, Sarah Belland, Morgan Dunagan

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Wednesday 1PM /Carpooling to increase fuel efficiency/  Abby Moton, Sarah Belland, Morgan Dunagan

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During the duration of our lab Sarah, Morgan, and I went to Parking Services and asked them specific questions. We asked how many commuters there were on campus, how many cars were registered through parking services, and how many cars were registered on all five campuses as a whole. With the numbers they told us we were are able to see the ratio of total number of students vs. the amount of cars and shows us how many students are truly utilizing carpooling. The question we asked based on this knowledge and our idea of saving fuel efficiency is "How can the students of UNG be made aware of the environmental benefit of carpooling, and what would compel them to utilize it more to increase fuel efficiency?"

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Wednesday 1PM /Carpooling to increase fuel efficiency/ Morgan Dunagan, Abby Moton, Sarah Belland

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Wednesday 1PM /Carpooling to increase fuel efficiency/ Morgan Dunagan, Abby Moton, Sarah Belland

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Our question was refined to "How can the students of UNG be made aware of the environmental benefit of carpooling, and what would compel them to utilize it more to increase fuel efficiency?" We spoke with Parking Services and discussed with them the number of commuters on both the Dahlonega campus and all four UNG campuses combined, based on the number of commuter stickers purchased on each campus. This gives us an idea of approximately how many students are commuters, and comes to show that implementing carpooling would be beneficial. In speaking with the staff at parking services we also found out that there is a specific commuter only parking lot at the Gainesville campus. More research into this may come to show that it would be something we could not only implement here in Dahlonega, but be a tool that encourages students to utilize carpooling.

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Wednesday 1pm/ Water Fill stations/Alyce Burnett, Aaron  Stapleton, Isabella Varela 

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Wednesday 1pm/ Water Fill stations/Alyce Burnett, Aaron  Stapleton, Isabella Varela 

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We met up today to discuss what we were going to do for our project, and today we kinda refined our question to be How can we continue to eliminate waste (plastic) by using water fill stations? we will further need to talk to maintenance too see how much water people usually use and all the issues concerning water and what their ideas are with water fill stations. in order complete our project we would need to talk to faculty and staff about their opinions on water fill stations and other students. we would also need to work together to come up with ideas that would benefit our project

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Wednesday 1pm / Water Fill Stations Lab / Alyce Burnett, Aaron Stapleton, Isabella Varela

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Wednesday 1pm / Water Fill Stations Lab / Alyce Burnett, Aaron Stapleton, Isabella Varela

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We grouped together to discuss our intentions for this project. Once we decided what we want to do with the desired information we combined this into a single question that embodies our whole project. We then discussed how we will come about gathering this data and what questions we will ask students we plan to survey. We need the cooperation of students and faculty to complete this project. Then we began an outline for our Powerpoint and set it up to where we are all able to edit it.

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Wednesday 1:00 / Water Fill Stations / Alyce Bennet, Isabella Varela, Aaron Stapleton

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Wednesday 1:00 / Water Fill Stations / Alyce Bennet, Isabella Varela, Aaron Stapleton

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We met up in order to discuss our group project. Our refined question is, "How can we continue to eliminate waste by using water fill stations?" We will need to discuss with maintenance about the issues concerning water usage and the amount of water used in the water fill stations alone. In order to complete our project of course we will need to work together within our group, as well as the other individuals on campus assigned to sustainability in our area of concern, as well as maintenance personnel.

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WEDNESDAY 1:00 / Electric Police Fleet/  Justin Dettenmayer, Jacob Jarrett, Nick Gallo

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WEDNESDAY 1:00 / Electric Police Fleet/  Justin Dettenmayer, Jacob Jarrett, Nick Gallo

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We visited the campus police station. We found police cars can be replaced by hybrids and cut down gas used by roughly 1/3. Data is still be collected on miles driven daily. Which would give us a more accurate numbers on gas and money saved. Our question "How much of a difference would electric rather than gas cars have on the environment ?"

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Thursday 3:30/ Trees at UNG/ Krumm, Lauren  Stephenson, Korinn  Thompson, Kelsey

Our new question is how effective are the trees on campus to us and the animals/ insects living inside and around them? We are going to identify a certain number of trees around campus and give information on how long they can give and what benefits they bring to us and insects and animals living around them. After collecting our results on which trees are best for our UNG community we may even plant one with UNG's permission.

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Thursday 3:30/ Power Usage by TV Monitors/ Hubbard, Chelsey, Pulley, Zach, Patterson, Daizah, Fuzak, Bennett

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Thursday 3:30/ Power Usage by TV Monitors/ Hubbard, Chelsey, Pulley, Zach, Patterson, Daizah, Fuzak, Bennett

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Our refined question is "How much do the TV monitors cost a semster to run in the library?" We will collect the kilowatt per 24 hours. We talked with the IT department about letting us measure the wattage of the TV monitor. Our group member Bennett was sick.

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Wednesday 1:00/ Green Roofs/ Taylor Salinas, Sarah Smith, Nicolas Rhoades

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Wednesday 1:00/ Green Roofs/ Taylor Salinas, Sarah Smith, Nicolas Rhoades

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We reviewed last semesters green roof progress and decided to further explore their experiment. Our refined questions include: What is the effect of green roofs on water drainage quality? ​and How can it change the acidity of drain water?​​ We will need to collect water affected by green roofs and water without it and test the pH levels of each. We will need to talk to Darrin Martin to gain roof access and possibly other professors with more knowledge on acidity of water and green roofs. We found some research on building green roofs and also reviewed some of the research from the previous green roof group.

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Thursday 3:30/ Green Fees at UNG/ Adams, Kaleigh. Smith, Maddie. Bailey, Rachel. Young, Katie. 

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Thursday 3:30/ Green Fees at UNG/ Adams, Kaleigh. Smith, Maddie. Bailey, Rachel. Young, Katie. 

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Our new and improved question is, "Would students, faculty, and staff be willing to add a small $6 Green Fee to our tuition and fees per semester? If so, what are some sustainability project ideas students, faculty, and staff have that this Green Fee could go towards?" We will conduct a survey that will potentially be sent out through the UNG Dahlonega campus-wide email, asking 1) If students, faculty, and staff would be willing to pay a Green Fee, and 2) If those who answer yes would be interested in being on a Green Fee Committee. In addition to our survey, we will also conduct in-person interviews asking 1) If the interviewee knows what a Green Fee is, and 2) Some ideas they have about how to use the money collected from the Green Fee. We plan to meet with a psychology professor to learn how to ask questions efficiently that will give us unbiased, honest feedback. We will also need to speak with those in charge of survey-emails in order to get our survey approved and out to the students and staff. Each member of our group did research ranging from Green Fee studies, to budgets, to other universities who have recently implemented a Green Fee, such as at GCSU and GSU.

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Thursday 3:30/ Recycling in the Suites/ Kennedy, Zach. Fricks, Dawson. Boest, Thomas

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Thursday 3:30/ Recycling in the Suites/ Kennedy, Zach. Fricks, Dawson. Boest, Thomas

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Our refined question is "If recycling is made more convenient and accessible to the residents of the suites, will they increase their amounts of recycling?" We will survey the students of the suites asking about their current recycling habits and their willingness to recycle more if it becomes more available. After surveying we will test this by observing and measuring increases or decreases in recyclable objects in the bins by the trash dumpsters. Some of the key people we could complete our project with are RA's and RD's in the building to help us getting the survey out along with encouraging it. Some useful research we found is that of other recent recycling changes in various colleges across America like the University of Idaho that is similar to ours.

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Thursday 3:30/ Water Bottle Refilling Stations in Donovan/Hesse, Chris. Bemis, Jeremy. Alday, Carson. Cason, Sydney

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Thursday 3:30/ Water Bottle Refilling Stations in Donovan/Hesse, Chris. Bemis, Jeremy. Alday, Carson. Cason, Sydney

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Our revised question is, "How many water bottles are saved in relevance to students in Donovan, and how would this compare to the whole campus?" The total number of water bottles saved to date it 36,575 water bottles. We will collect the water bottle counts every week for a month to see the increase in amount of water bottles saved. Some key players could be the President of the school to ask her how she saves on water bottles, and let us know who else we can talk to. We each articles from Duke, Syracuse, Penn State, and Virginia Tech about how much these refilling stations have saved the colleges.

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9am / Rainwater capture at Ecological Protection Lab / Lo, J

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9am / Rainwater capture at Ecological Protection Lab / Lo, J

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We calculated the amount of rainfall that can be captured from the roof of the building to be 12,135 gallons. This would fill a 55 gallon rain barrel 220 times in a year. More than enough water for 25 hemlock trees which need 485 gallons per tree or 1.33 gallons per day. NEXT we shall install a rain barrel or cistern and irrigation tape.

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Thursday 3:30 PM / Energy consumption in the Rec Center / Laine Hunt, Mads Baek-Larsen, Logan Hinson, Tatum Watkins

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Thursday 3:30 PM / Energy consumption in the Rec Center / Laine Hunt, Mads Baek-Larsen, Logan Hinson, Tatum Watkins

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Our revised question is "what is the energy consumption of the treadmills  in the Rec Center in comparison to the unused machines and how could it be improved?" We will measure the actual energy consumption of the treadmills and the unused machines, and from there calculate the total and individual energy output of them. We will also use the staff at the Rec Center to estimate the amount of time that the different machines are being used on a daily and weekly basis. Through our research, we have found the energy consumption of other gyms and of specific machines which we can compare to our project. We also found articles about gyms in England that actually provided power instead of just spending it.