 | David Blume: Alcohol Can Be a Gas! |
A Discussion with David Blume
Friday, April 30, 2010
7:00pm, Room 180 Science Hall
Co-Sponsored by: Energy Hub
and our friends at Town and Country RC&D
Join us afterward for discussion
on the Memorial Union Terrace!
Students attend free. $10/carload donation suggested for non-UW community.
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| Powered Green Earth Day Scavenger Hunt |
Energy Hub’s friends at Powered Green have placed 40 Powered Green stickers* around UW-Madison campus.
Snap a photo of a sticker and upload it to Powered Green’s Facebook page and win cool Earth Day eco-friendly gear!
*editor’s note: Energy Hub does not endorse vandalism 
| UW, state should follow Austin’s lead on energy |
As part of the Daily Cardinal’s ongoing “Green Room” series, UW graduate students Stephen Collins and Danny Spitzberg propose that Madison follow the example of Austin, Texas and implement a new cooperative effort to “promote conservation and clean energy, such as smart grid technology and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.” This effort would combine the resources of major stakeholders in Madison, such as city government, the University of Wisconsin-Madison (including the Energy Institute and Wisconsin Public Utility Institute) and Madison Gas and Electric.
| eHub Exclusive Brown Bag Lunch on Climate Change |
On March 25 and March 26, UW-Madison will host Dr. Gavin Schmidt, a high-profile NASA climate scientist and co-founder of the RealClimate.org blog, which has become a major voice for science in climate debates.
Energy Hub members have an exclusive opportunity to have an informal lunch talk with Dr. Schmidt on Thursday, March 25. The brownbag lunch talk will take place from 12:30-2 pm at 2180 Mechanical Engineering. Please register by clicking this link.
Dr. Schmidt will also be giving a public lecture at 4 pm in 1106 Mechanical Engineering entitled “Communicating Climate Science: Tiptoeing through the Minefield.”
| Saul Griffith speaks at UW – Presented by Holtz Center |
THE FUTURE OF ENERGY SERIESThursday, March 11, 2010 – KEYNOTE LECTURE
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| eHub Tour: MG&E West Campus CoGen Plant |
Madison Gas and Electric has arranged to give Energy Hub members a tour of the West Campus Cogeneration Facility on Friday, March 19, 2010. Tour starts at 3:00pm.
The Co-Gen facility is a state-of-the-art natural gas-fired generation station, completed in 2005. Learn more about how the CoGen plant works online, or by visiting the plant and seeing for yourself on the March 19 tour.
| “Fossil Fools” talk with Joe Shuster, March 9 |
Energy Hub, the UW-Madison chapter of the American Nuclear Society (ANS), and the UW-Madison Center for Business, Environment and Social Responsibility have teamed up to bring a special lecture to the UW campus. Join us on March 9 to learn about Joseph M. Shuster’s “Roadmap to Energy Independence”.
7:00pm, March 9, 2010
Morgridge Auditorium, Grainger Hall
UW-Madison School of Business
975 University Avenue, Madison WI 53706
*refreshments served at 6:45pm
| Wisconsin: Focus on energy education |
By Danny Spitzberg and Stephen Collins
Earlier this week, fellow Daily Cardinal opinion writer Anthony Cefali posed a question: “How do we [in American education] inspire our science program to shoot for the moon, or at least our own modern equivalent?” Well, we think we have an answer.
Look no further than clean energy. Some are calling it the biggest market opportunity in history. Experts of all stripes have repeatedly stated that the nation that wins the clean-energy race will be the nation that leads the 21st century economy. Discovering and implementing cheap, clean and reliable energy technologies is our generation’s final frontier.
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| Residence hall energy competition to take place throughout February |
Source: The Daily Cardinal
The fourth annual UW-Madison Residence Hall Energy Competition, organized by Big Red Go Green begins Monday.
According to Clay Thomas, Big Red Go Green media intern, the competition encourages residences of each dorm on campus to reduce their energy consumption, offering a prize for the winning dorm. Big Red Go Green is a campaign run by the Wisconsin Students Public Interests Research Group on campus.
Thomas said in the past that the prize has involved parties or socials for all members of the winning dorm, but the organizers are looking into new ideas for this year’s prize.
He added that students who promise to save energy individually by signing a pledge will become eligible to win prizes from area businesses such as Buffalo Wild Wings, Sconnie Nation and Underground Textbook Exchange.
