Switch-It-Off Team Meeting (March 10, 2015)
Team Attendees
Ryan Thai
Owen Pierce
Michael Dunne
Erik Kaptanowski
Agendas:
- Review Step 1 (1:50 pm)
- Erik wrote the statements for this last Thursday (March 5, 2015)
- We thought about improving State Hall before
- Talking further with Larry Fodor (Thursday 9:00 am Mike and Doug)
- Voting 5:1 Feasibility vs Proposal Option
- Add a statement saying that current work of the website is outdated (1:57 pm Ryan)
- Discussing with Jared (1:58 - 2:03 pm)
- Feasibility testing and why will it work
- Jared likes it
- Come up with three possible improvements
- Split into groups of three for research
- Evaluations will be of good use (2:12 pm)
- The current energy action plan is too basic and outdated (2:13 Mike)
- The need to be improved upon with new technology and techniques
- Our current Step 1 does in fact establish our genre. Need to state as to why
- The most problematic that will be an issue to our group project will be the criteria (pg. 548) (2:24 pm)
- The questions to current events (context) may cause problems to our ideas (2:26 pm)
- Wayne State just recently renovated the Student Center (Cost issue) (Can we Afford it?)
- Side effects to our ideas (Is it desirable?)
- Any construction done in Wayne State in class buildings will move classes else where
- Triple bottom line concept to think about (2:36 pm)
- Carbon footprint is the current problem for Wayne State
- We are looking to provide three alternatives
- We will provide examples which work from different institution in their buildings
- Audience is the Office of Sustainability http://livinggreen.wayne.edu/index.php
- A bit of work needed to explain what is stated above for Step 1 (2:44 pm)
- More revisions along the way
- Erik is working on this
- Next Meeting at the UGL 1:25 pm (Third Floor)