UW News
February 9, 2015
Six Green Seed Fund winners selected for 2015
The Green Seed Fund, a grant fund for sustainability research projects at the UW, will award money to six projects that contribute to the university’s sustainability goals, are well-planned and achievable and will help the UW reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.
The six winning projects for 2015 will share about $250,000 in grant money and were chosen by a committee of students, faculty and staff.
The projects are:
- Carbon challenge: Footprint reduction through curricular development and community building: This UW Tacoma project will create a friendly competition between students, faculty and staff to lose carbon weight. The competition will use social networks to spread challenges among the UW Tacoma community.
- Enhancing the sustainability of electronic waste handling on the UW campus: This project will identify electronic waste from campus that’s being sent to landfills and create recycling and reuse stations for the waste to be collected on campus.
- Reducing non-recoverable waste: Examining opportunities for durable medical equipment reuse: Participants will look at durable medical equipment reuse and recycling at UW Medical Center and Harborview Medical Center to reduce non-recoverable waste at the hospitals.
- UWT Husky Lines: This project will try to increase the use of public transportation by UW Tacoma students through bus lines with no transfers.
- Value-driven property-investing strategy for the UW campus — a lighting example: This study aims to demonstrate that lighting retrofits can generate significant energy savings and improve user experience, ultimately leading to better worker performance.
- Measured benefits of the UW Green Wall and water harvesting system: A continuation of a 2014 Green Seed Project, this award will allow completion of the research project on the potential benefits of the Gould Hall Green Wall.
Read the full story about this year’s winners. See a list of last year’s winners here.
