GREEN PROJECTS The 2008 Green Design Solutions conference will focus on hot green topics such as Mixed-use project, Construction, Schools, Finance and more. This 2-day conference will bring together industry professionals and environmental building leaders all with one common goal in mind - green design efficiencies for environmental building. Industry leaders will present seminars, case studies and lectures that may offer AIA continuing education credits. Conference starts May 23 and ends May 25. All seminars will start 9am each morning and end 3pm every evening. Come join our green revolution! Sign up to become a green member today.
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.
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.