Tahoe Community College

Step towards the future

Here at Tahoe Community College we promote excellence in education for northern California communities. Tahoe C.C. takes pride in providing quality classes, instructors, and labs for our students and surrounding communities. Here at Tahoe CC we stay involved with our local communities and local businesses. We promote advances in creativity and inter-dependence for our various partnerships in surrounding communities and as well as our sister colleges throughout California.

Earth-friendly TCC student activists are building a device that converts cafeteria grease into biodiesel to power their automobiles.

Tahoe Community College students are helping plan an expanded student union building, proposing everything from solar technology to environmentally friendly hand soap in the restrooms. And students aggressively practice recycling at Cal State San Marcos, which won a national contest this week by diverting nearly 60 percent of campus trash from the landfill.

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Green Buildings & Energy Curriculum

As part of its commitment to energy education, the TCC is creating a sustainable development curriculum that integrates classes, green building education and certificates along with displays such as learning solar station kiosks on each college campus.

A major feature of the TCC's green building program is its 9 Megawatt Solar Energy Plan, which calls for the installation of enough photovoltaic (solar) panels on site at each of its nine colleges to produce at least one megawatt of electricity, enough to meet all daytime electricity needs. Future plans call for using excess electrical energy to convert water into oxygen and hydrogen, and to use the hydrogen in the evening to power fuel cells for electricity on each campus.

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Green Solutions

The Green Solutions ExpoGreen Solutions began as a grass roots effort to raise awareness in West Central Illinois of the efforts of local companies and organizations to be environmentally friendly and what we can each do in our own lives to mitigate our impact on the natural environment.
Higher Education Goes GreenACE is creating and investing in renewable and alternative energy, reducing energy and water usage, building “green” facilities—America's colleges and universities are going green and the American Council on Education (ACE) is celebrating those efforts on its new Solutions for Our Future web site, Higher Education Goes Green.
Green Business AllianceThe GBA is now front and centert in preserving the environment. Go Green has taken on new meaning and importance. Green Business Alliance is guiding companies to Greenify by enabling them to integrate environmental stewardship into their daily business practices.