Our Big News: Sustainable UH!!!
Shanah Faith Trevenna
The mission of Sustainable UH is to be of service to those establishing the University of Hawaii System as a world leader in sustainable education, research and practices by facilitating community events and providing “student-power” for energy audits, waste audits, and other green projects at the request of organizations throughout the ten-campus system. And the Sustainable Saunders initiative continues under the direction of Dr. David Nixon of the UHM Public Policy Center as a living laboratory for innovative sustainability research.
The HUB’s new initiative, Sustainable UH, extends the momentum of Sustainable Saunders to those throughout the UH system requesting their services beginning with Honolulu Community College (HCC), and the Student Bar Association at the University of Hawaii at Manoa who intend to make the Richardson School of Law the greenest Law School in America! These initiatives are underway with lighting audits, dumpster dives and a computer power save pilot with Pacific Green IT. The goal is to replicate Saunders' success by achieving $150,000 in energy savings over the next year, all while training students for Hawaii's green work force.
Shanah Trevenna BSc.Mech.Eng.
Sustainability Coordinator