Sustainable Energy

There is a lot of talk about alternative energy. UW Oshkosh has been a leader in Wisconsin in the purchase of green energy.

History

In 2003, UW Oshkosh became the first Wisconsin university to join the EPA's Green Power Partnership, purchasing 3% of its energy from renewable sources in the NatureWise® Program of Wisconsin Public Service. We won an EPA Green Power Purchaser award.
In 2006, we increased our purchase of green power to 11%, continuing to lead all state agencies in the purchase of alternative energy.

New initiatives

Perform an engineering analysis of the campus heating plant and other facilities to develop a plan to transition away from the use of fossil fuels.

Goal

In 2006 Governor Doyle chose UW Oshkosh and three other campuses to pursue the ambitious goal of becoming 100% independent of fossil fuel energy for electricity, heating, and cooling.

Want to know more?

Here is a link to the section of our Campus Sustainability Plan on sustainable energy: CSP IV C - Energy

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by David Barnhill — last modified Feb 13, 2009 01:03 PM

Bike and Pedestrian Survey

The City of Oshkosh is updating its Pedestrian and Bicycle Circulation Plan and they are looking for public input from people who live, work, study, or recreate in Oshkosh. They have developed a website that has links to an online survey:

pedestrian_bicycle_plan

Even if you do not currently use a bike or walk to campus, completing the survey will help the city learn why you do not, or how they might improve city infrastructure.

Most of us use city facilities every day: sidewalks along streets carrying automobiles through campus are built by the city, to their current standards. The last public meeting was in August, so student and staff input was not representative of UW Oshkosh pedestrians and bicyclists. So please consider giving the city some feedback from the campus community.