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Can Meadville, PA be sustainable, resilient community by 2030? Check out this report from Spring, 2018.
This website was prepared by students enrolled in the Allegheny College Junior Seminar in Sustainable Development (Environmental Science 585) in the spring semester, 2018. We used the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals to assess how the city of Meadville, PA was doing in making progress toward achieving sustainability by 2030.
The Spring 2011 Environmental Science Junior Seminar in Sustainable Development at Allegheny College assembled a very comprehensive website on how to produce biogas from organic wastes. It’s an excellent resource on the topic.
Carr Hall now hosts Allegheny’s first solar panels. Installed by Carlyn Johnston as part of her senior comprehensive they also include a website on renewable energy:
Here is the Presentation Kelly Boulton and I presented at the American Association for Sustainability in Higher Education in October 2011. AASHE.2011
Representation of Carr Hall Entryway
Here is the Power Point prepared by the Junior Seminar in Sustainable Development, ES 585, Fall 2011. It contains the recommendations for plantings for the lobby and front entryway to Carr hall.
Carlyn Johnson, ES and Physics major ’11, was responsible for the installation of Allegheny’s first electricity producing solar panels.
At last we have live data for the two photovoltaic solar panels on Carr Hall. Click here to see how much energy we are producing right now and to learn how much energy these panels have produced since they were first installed.
Here’s what I learned about making authentic, artisanal French sourdoughs. Read more…
