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Nike's got a new sustainable shoe made from scraps and safe materials.

Trash Talk shoe

Name: Josh Fishburn
DU Affliation: Electronic Media Arts Design/Digital Media Studies Graduate Student (3rd year), Research Assistant on P4Games project.

What to do now? 

Campus safety undermines motivation to ride bicycles to school. Bicycles get confiscated, U-Locks are required, etc.

Green purchasing group - premium associated with buying recycled paper, double-sided printing, etc. If one group made a campus-wide recommendation that departments could follow on their own.

01:30P Weaver is a closet scientist/engineer, with a background in Environmental Engineering prior to media.

The campus climate commitment is iterative, progressing over time. The definition of sustainability is a “moving target,” according to Weaver. Over time, the process of iteration becomes an intuitive process. For consumption, our use of materials can evolve .

Summary 

10:53 - Jeff Bemelen - Facilities Management at DU

Campus construction and change providing opportunities for rethinking energy and sustainability. Most changes were predicated on cost savings rather than sustainability.

Campus Energy Management

http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/20071127_green.html

RE<C, Google's looking to innovate in the energy market using renewable, alternative electricity production methods.

Prominent ideas for effective global solutions.

2008 TED Prize Winners

Vatican takes a role in keeping God's earth green

The Vatican is offsetting it's carbon footprint. A pretty prominent place for a sustainable response. Interesting...  

A solid attempt to average out the global and US use of energy through just the use of the Internet. An interesting area or research and consideration as more and more of our "tools" are becoming electronically powered.

This reasercher estimated it out to be: