Our mission is to support the PMCS Strategic Plan objective of sustainability by incorporating a green-based mentality and delivery to our organization through investigation, education and action. PMCS Green Team volunteers focus on environmental and sustainability issues at our workplace in the Facilities Complex. We meet monthly and would love to have your input!
Green Teams are volunteer groups of faculty, staff, and students that work together on campus environmental issues at the departmental level. Since most decisions that impact the environment at the university are decentralized and made at the department, office or local level, Green Teams can have a big impact on campus!
Join the Team! To receive PMCS Green Team e-mails and meeting notifications, send an e-mail to Lauren Constant.
Attend the Next Green Team Meeting:
Monday, November 30th, 11:00am – 12:00 noon in FC1 Training Room C
Sustain This! Educational Speaker Series:
We host a range of interesting informational speakers on a variety of sustainability topics:
- Phillip Quindara and Elliot Easton of EYP/Energy and Katherine Johnson of Johnson Consulting Group, July 29, 2009. Download their Webinar (pdf) on phantom loads. Phantom loads--electricity used when appliances are not in use but still plugged in--is estimated to cost U.S. consumers $3 billion a year. The presentations explains how to reduce your devices' phantom load.
- Tom Lightfield, PMCS Project Manager, July 14, 2009. Tom demonstrated how to build your own water collection barrel at minimal cost.
- Meagan Jones, Division of Housing and Food Service, July 7, 2009. Download her presentation (pdf). DHFS is fostering a living and learning experience of environmental stewardship and sustainability awareness on campus.
- Bert Haskell, HelioVolt, June 8, 2009. Download his presentation (pdf). HelioVolt is an Austin-based company developing a new generation of efficient, safe, reliable and attractive thin-film photovoltaic solar power products for energy production at cost parity with conventional sources of electricity.
- Keith Whittier, IdeaPaint, May 29, 2009. Download his presentation (pdf). IdeaPaint is a low-VOC paint-on-dry erase product that can save time, labor and cost when renovating classrooms.
Green Tip of the Week
The New York Times published an article on Dan Phillips of Huntsville, who creates unique houses where about 80% of the materials are salvaged from other construction projects, hauled out of trash heaps or just picked up from the side of the road. Read the article and check out the slideshow!
Green Event
Tour the First LEED Platinum Hospital!
Alan R. Bell, director of Design & Construction for Seton Network facilities, has offered to give a tour of innovative build techniques that allowed Dell Children's Hospital to be LEED Platinum Certified. He has great insight as to why investors were willing to pay more in order to make the hospital LEED certified and can share ideas for how UT can make its buildings LEED certified.
When/Where: Saturday, December 5th at 9 a.m. at the main lobby of the hospital. (Meet at 8:30 a.m. at Littlefield Fountain if you would like to carpool. Email mihochman@gmail.com to arrange rides.)
Links & Other Green Teams on Campus
Download our graphic design intern, Erin Tilley’s new “PMCS Think Before You Print” signature block to help your e-mail recipients save paper and ink!
