Greenhouse Gas Reductions

Gideon Burdick is a junior at Warren Wilson College. He and a team of students are developing a Real Time Utility Monitor that will provide dorm residents with up to the minute feedback on their electrical, natural gas and water use. This web based system aims to provide feedback on how individual actions carry environmental and economic repercussions.  In addition, Gideon is involved the colleges Greenhouse Gas Reductions Task Force, student body elected representatives and Environmental Action Coalition.

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March 18, 2009

Gideon earns $13K in grants and press for his Real Time Utility Monitoring Project:

http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009903160307

April 09, 2009

Slow and steady progress is starting to pay off. The design of our custom “data-loggeresque” circuit board is complete, as is the custom designed software. We’re currently waiting for the boards to be shipped to us so we can populate the boards and install them. We’ve identified our pilot dorm, a small dorm with 17 residents due to the relative closeness of all of the utilities we’ll be monitoring. The rest of this academic semester will be spent laying the groundwork for 10 additional dorms. This will include identifying the dorms, ordering required hardware and ensuring that everything is in place to either be installed over the summer, or immediately when student return in the fall (Wilson is one of seven work colleges requiring all students to work at least 15 hours per week, in order to utilize student labor and keep costs low we will be installing as much of this in house as possible). In addition, conversations are underway to have a work crew established around the utility monitoring project next fall.

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