Education
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[edit] Education Goal
Provide education to residents, friends of residents, and random passersby.
[edit] Education Ideas
- Education in the Welcome Area
- Hold a dorm speaker series
- Maintain a library of the essential books on environment/sustainability (See our resource list)
- Subscribe to appropriate magazines: ABIL, ReadyMade, MAKE, Metropolis, Journal of Industrial Ecology, Science, Nature
- Post a calendar of environment/energy events on and off campus
- Have a comprehensive, interactive website
- Dedicated classroom/meeting room area for sustainable education in the dorm
- Meeting area for student groups: Students for a Sustainable Stanford, Green Dorm, Engineers for a Sustainable World, etc.
- Information about the Dorm for general public/passersby
- Speaker Series held in Green Dorm: Woods Institute Energy Seminars?
- Grant system for funding student research and experiments Green Fund now exists
- Hands-on Workshops (make your own Biodiesel, create a sustainable garden space, organic/sustainable beer brewing....)
- Maximize resident interaction with everything-empower them
- Signs throughout to explain to visitors AND residents the different features, how they work, and why they are the way they are.
[edit] Education Questions
[edit] Personal Opinion
- What have been the defining qualities of your favorite educational experiences? What makes a learning experience most effective?
- Nick: Hands-on learning, humor, lots of reading materials.
