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Late Night Breakfast | Roger Williams University
Hosted the night before the last day of classes each semester in Upper Commons and served by RWU faculty. No meal plan required. Located on Narragansett Bay with all the beauty and peril of an North Atlantic waterfront setting.
Redivivus
Today we break down best practice literature for recycling enterprises in education communities. Insiders know recycling struggles to be economically feasible and environmentally effective but signals virtue and pays off mightily in cool points.
Electronic Equipment Recycling
The education industry is a large consumer of electronic equipment and should be involved in standards setting for managing the acquisition, use and disposal of electronic equipment that expand contamination fields during floods. NSF International was founded at the University of Michigan in 1944.
The Seven Sins of Greenwashing
Professor Pascual Berrone: "Many companies highlight one green positive aspect of their product or service, and hide the true impact that its production has on the environment”. With more and more NGO’s act as public watchdogs, "the consequences of getting caught can be, in terms of reputation but also economically, severe”.
Quadrivium: Spring
Educational settlements should be magical places. The stack informing the beauty of these "cities-within-cities" changes 100 to 1000 times per day globally. Titles are time-sensitive, copyright protected and land in public law. We monitor the action continuously to formulate response to public consultations. Topics appear on our CALENDAR and explored every day at 15:00 UTC. Recommend refresh of this web page once or twice to see timeliest information.
Classroom Furniture
Very often the cost of furnishing an occupancy in our industry is buried within a project budget as a lumped sum on a layer of a spreadsheet known only to a few "budgeteers". A visit to the university "Property Disposition" offers insight into the scale of education industry interior furnishing spend. A West Michigan ANSI-accredited standards developer.
Current Issues & Recent Research
We are tooling up for the NFPA 2029 National Electrical Code Technical Committee Meetings in September and the IEEE Industrial Applications Society Meetings in October.
Solar Panel Recycling
Annick Anctil is an Assistant Professor in the School of Civil Engineering. Her special expertise is in the environmental impacts of renewable energy, with a concentration on solar photovoltaics.