Projects:
Biodiesel
Pushing UAF to apply research and use of alternative fuesl. See offsite link
UAF Vehicle Sharing Program?
Live on campus? Wish you could have part time use of a Flexcar-like vehicle? Join Us and make it happen.
Will Bios Be Green?
The Bioscience Facility is well in the design phase. This would be a positive step toward making it a LEED certified Green Building. This makes UAF more sustainable by lowering maintenance costs and environmental impact into the future.
UAF Campus Community Bikes
SCTF has all the tools and materials to set up a fully functional bike shop for maintenance and repair of an entire bike fleet! We even have more than 70 bikes that have been donated, many of them already working. We want to start a free bike loaning program for anyone who wants a bike to get around campus with, as well as help people maintain their own bikes.
The Honors House
The UAF Honors House is slated to be burned down in two years. Our faculty advisor Rich Seifert, the housing and energy specialist at UAF Cooperative Extension, has done an audit to determine what needs to be updated and brought up to code as a part of a green renovation. This building is still worth saving. We want to make this project a learning campus sustainability.
Past Accomplishments:
- Initiated, organized, and hosted the Sustainable Living Conference annually since 2005
- Organized a UAF Earth Day Fair every year.
- Organized the Sustainable Living Tour of Fairbanks annually since 2005.
- Motivated the formation of the Fairbanks Biodiesel Collective, which is in weekly production.
- Gave input to the Sustainable Leadership Group (UAF’s former admin. sustainability committee).
- Made bins for one sided paper reuse and put them next to printers all around campus.
- And let’s not forget the Cuptopus! A gigantic sea monster made of found cups and materials, which lit up, talked, sang and danced (ok, only by ventriloquism). It was created for a recycled art contest that we hold at the Earth Day Fair.
Despite our artistic pretensions, sophistication and accomplishments we still owe our existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.Chinese Proverb