Renewable Energy Club - Tuesday Meeting

Hello everyone, sorry for the last notice, but we are having a meeting tomorrow again, at the solar house at 11. I want to set up the officer positions which I kept saying I would do, so, if you want to take a role on, come tomorrow or let me know if you cannot make it and Ill see what I can do.

Tomorrow I want to talk about the Solar Heating Project for the Reccenter in detail, go into where it came from, who wants to work on that project now and what our next move is in that campaign. It should be a great project and something that I feel is really viable and necessary for our pool.

There are a few interested professors I have spoken with, so one may stop by but if not he will be attending a future meeting to talk about how he sees the project and what he can help out with.

Announcements:
The Green Campus Program is off to a start on campus and the interns are looking for volunteers who may be interested in helping out. For those who do not know,  last spring, a group of students applied and got a grant to run energy efficiency programs on campus. The program comes from the state of CA and the Alliance to Save Energy and 12 schools are choosen, 6 UCs and 6 CSUs. Cal Poly was the 6th and this is such an amazing honor! We are a Green Campus, or, trying to be. But, projects entail dorm energy competitions, monitoring systems for the dorms, IT energy efficiency program use, Occupancy and Load reduction in campus buildings. If anyone is interested in any of these, there are people to contact. Ask me about it tomorrow.


Focus the Nation is in the planning stages. The event is a day-long simposium on Global Warming Solutions for America. There is planned to be a green job fair, speakers on all sides of the issue, from business solutions, engineering solutions, arch, social, political. There are art installations planned for the UU and Dexter, there is a band playing on that day. Basically, a whole lot of fun. But, the group needs more help to plan for the event. They meet on Fridays at 11 in garden grill and the date is not till January 31st, but that will come soon! Let me know if you are interested.


Neil Bulger
Renewable Energy Club, President

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"Be the change you want to see in the world." ~Mahatma Gandhi

Renewable Energy Club First Meeting

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Fall Quarter. I hope you are all as excited as I am about this coming year!

We will have our first meeting this Tuesday from 11-12 at the Solar House on campus. (see attached for location). I would like to get a room with more chairs for next time, but for now, this will do wonderfully! Plus the house is off-the-grid.

Attached is the agenda, I will print a few but if you could, please bring a copy for yourself. Id rather save some trees and not print out a ton.

Thanks,

Neil Bulger
Renewable Energy Club, President
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"Be the change you want to see in the world." ~Mahatma Gandhi

Renewable Energy Club 07-08

Hello Renewable Energy Enthusiasts! I hope you are all having a wonderful summer, maybe workin with some green energy yourself. I have been to DC and back in a leadership workshop called Change It 07! where I meet some of the most amazing campus coordinators involved in sustainability and the likes at their school. But everyone was impressed by Cal Poly. So lets continue the trend and STEP IT UP IN 07-08!

I'm sending this out to find out a little info:
ONE! This Fall I hope to start strong with fresh ideas and a bit of enthusiasm. If anyone is interested in planning the first meeting or has some wonderful ideas LET ME KNOW! I plan to be working on it the week prior to school. On Sept 14th WOW club day will be going on as well, and We'll be there. Exciting huh?!

TWO! IF you are an alumni, faculty, or anyone else who may not want to receive emails constantly such as 'when to meet at the library to...', LET ME KNOW! and I will create a separate group of contacts to send out monthly updates on where the club is, where we're heading... nice little summary thing. Wow, wouldn't that me nifty?

That's it! If anyone has any questions, please ask.

Neil Bulger
Renewable Energy Club
recclub.calpoly.edu

Rec Center Pool

The Solar Thermal Rec Center project has been shown some new light. I have created a web group to continue discussion and ideas over the summer and into next year. If you would like to join and add comments, visit the site at: http://groups.google.com/group/reccenterproject

This is a great way we can all work together and share ideas, enjoy!

Announcements

1. Upcoming Revolution in Construction Monday, June 4th, 2007 @ 1:00 PM Room 107 Bonderson Projects Center. Dr. Khoshnevis of USC presents contour Crafting is a mega-scale fabrication process aiming at automated construction of whole structures as well as subcomponents. The potential of CC became evident from investigations and experiments with materials and geometries.

 

2. Surf-Rider Event Tuesday, June 5, 2007 night in cayucos, should anyone not be too partied out by the time we are done with our own gala.

the information for Cuesta's grassroots club is also below. i'll be sure to get them out to some empower poly meetings next year.

 

3. Physics Colloquium, Thursday, June 7, 2007 @ 11:00am in Blg.52:E45.   Dave Hafemeister speaks on "Plug-in  Electric and Hybrid Vehicles"

 

4. South County "2030 Challenge" Thursday, June 7, 2007 @ 6:00-8:00pm at the South County Regional Center: 800 West Branch St., Arroyo Grande.   The SLO-Green Build in partnership with the South County Major, City Council and Planning Commission regarding the 2030 Challenge, regarding the 2030 Challenge (zero energy and carbon-neutral building).

 

5. Sustainable Rangeland Management June 8, 2007 Michael Hall, Animal Science Dept. 12pm Blg 10-215 (Part of the Brown Bag Lecture Series)

Spring Work Party

There will be no work party Saturday May 26th. Sorry for the late notice, but we will be meeting the following weekend in the morning and have a small bbq that afternoon/evening at the solar house for all the members and advisors.

Invited for solar talk

Tomorrow (5-22-07) Dr. Vigil is planning on talking about solar efficiencies while doing a lab experiment.  If anyone is interested in attending his class at 1:30pm email me at phaidra_rice@yahoo.com.  He said that he would like about 3 or 4 people to attend if they would like!  See you all Tuesday at 11!

 

Neil Bulger
REC, President