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Greenest Student College Challenge
What better way to kick off the 2010 fall semester than with a contest in which the winner (aka the 'Greenest Student') will receive fame and fortune? ThinkGreenLiveClean announces its first ever Greenest Student College Challenge, a global contest for college students!
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UNI featured by The Princeton Review and U.S. Green Building Council
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa -- The University of Northern Iowa is one of the country's most environmentally responsible colleges, according to The Princeton Review. The nationally known education services company selected UNI for inclusion in a unique resource it has created for college applicants -- "The Princeton Review's Guide to 286 Green Colleges."
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Iowa River Revival's annual conference focuses on Cedar Valley
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa -- The University of Northern Iowa Center for Energy and Environmental Education is one of the Iowa River Revival's fifth annual conference sponsors, as the organization focuses in on the Cedar Valley in 2010. The conference will take place in Cedar Falls and Waterloo Friday through Sunday, April 30 through May 2.
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UNI's Panther Pick Up to give new life to old stuff April 29-30 and May 5-7
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa -- The University of Northern Iowa will hold its second-annual Panther Pick Up, a project to help the environment while benefiting the community, on Thursday and Friday, April 29 and 30, and Wednesday through Friday, May 5-7. Panther Pick Up is open to the campus community and the public.
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UNI holds 2010 Sustainability Forum on April 22
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa -- University of Northern Iowa President Benjamin Allen and Executive Vice President and Provost Gloria Gibson will update the campus community on the university's sustainable efforts at the 2010 Sustainability Forum from 2 to 4 p.m. Thursday, April 22, in the University Room of the Maucker Union on the UNI campus.
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UNI receives IAWIND funding for solar-wind hybrid power station
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa -- In order to help reduce carbon emissions, educate students, faculty and the university community and to provide a renewable energy teaching and research facility, the University of Northern Iowa will build a 12-kilowatt solar-wind hybrid power station.
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UNI to celebrate Earth Week
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa -- The University of Northern Iowa will celebrate environmental efforts during Earth Week, kicking off Monday, April 19, and culminating on Earth Day, Thursday, April 22.
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UNI Unplugged challenges students to reduce energy consumption
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa -- Nine University of Northern Iowa students are encouraging energy conservation through a campus-wide energy saving competition called UNI Unplugged, to take place April 15-22.
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Presentation at UNI on ecological restoration of native lands
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa -- Carter Johnson will discuss the commercial opportunities of converted cropland in "South Dakota's Prairie Farm: An Experiment in Economic and Ecological Sustainability," at noon on Monday, April 12, in McCollum Science Hall, Room 001, on the University of Northern Iowa campus. The event is free and open to the public. Read More..
CEEE offers free games for home energy efficiency ideas
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa -- The University of Northern Iowa Center for Energy and Environmental Education (CEEE) offers free educational games for families and other groups to learn about home energy-improvement projects. These resources, for all ages, can be downloaded from the Fabulous Resources for Energy Education (FREE) Web site at www.ceee.uni.edu/FREE.aspx or borrowed from the CEEE. Read More..
UNI's Tallgrass Prairie Center presents Sustainability of Agriculture Landscapes: Perspectives From Southern Australia
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa -- Sustainability of Agriculture Landscapes: Perspectives From Southern Australia will be held at 4 p.m. Monday, April 5. The presentation will be on the University of Northern Iowa campus in the McCollum Science Hall, room 001. The event is free and open to the public. Read More..
UNI Tallgrass Prairie Center to hold roadside prairie plantings and pollinator conservation seminar
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa -- The University of Northern Iowa's Tallgrass Prairie Center will hold the Roadside Prairie Plantings and Pollinator Conservation seminar at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 27. The event is free and open to the public. Read More..
Green Iowa AmeriCorps at CEEE leads weatherization blitz
On the MLK Day of Service Jan. 18 (M), Green Iowa Americorps workers through the UNI Center for Energy and Environmental Education will train and lead volunteers in weatherizing homes in Cedar Falls. Meet at 9 a.m. at St. Lukes Episcopal Church, 2410 Melrose Dr., Cedar Falls. To register by Fri., Jan. 15, email Cortney.Schiappa@gmail.com. For all skill levels. Wear work clothes and bring a sack lunch. Work will conclude 4:30-5 p.m. Participants will learn to:
UNI's Continuing & Distance Education to Offer Solar Energy Course This Spring
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa -- The University of Northern Iowa's Continuing & Distance Education is currently accepting enrollments for the upcoming 2-credit-hour course Solar Energy Applications and Issues. Read More..
