The Associated Students of Oregon State University, OSU Sustainability Office and the OSU Foundation have launched the university’s first fundraising effort focused on reducing university carbon emissions.\u00a0 Addressing climate change means setting ambitious carbon emissions reduction goals – and doing everything we can to meet them!\u00a0 So, for the first time ever, we are partnering with the OSU Foundation to raise money from donors to fund projects that reduce carbon from campus activities.<\/p>\n
Because we have never done this before, we are unsure of the donor appetite to support an initiative like this.\u00a0 So we are starting with a modest project. \u00a0The Foundation has set up this page<\/a><\/strong> for a small project in Kelley Engineering Center, which would save around 2,000 lbs of carbon\u00a0emissions annually.\u00a0 The project repairs a solar hot water system on the roof of Kelley that has been consistently problematic and, in recent years, not functioning at all.\u00a0 The project will replace the collector assembly with more standard technology that allows lower maintenance and more continued operations.\u00a0 The project also provides student engagement and research opportunities. This helps reach our objective of using the campus as a living lab, and providing real world, applied learning for our students!<\/p>\n
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