(Notícia em Inglês)
People from all over the state flocked to Champaign this Friday for the 5th Annual Sustainable University Symposium at the I-Hotel, 1900 S. 1st St., Champaign.
About 400 people attended the event, which included speakers such as Gov. Pat Quinn, Robert Easter and Michael J. Hogan.
William Kelleher, senior in Engineering, spoke on student led campus biodiesel production for carbon reduction because he has had experience in that field.
“I was in charge of a group that turns our campus dining hall waste vegetable oil into fuel for university vehicles,” he said.
This campus is an especially sustainably oriented, Kelleher said.
“We have the student sustainability committee with the billion dollar annual budget now, so that’s really significant. We have the student farm, the student biodiesel movement, and Student for Environmental concerns,” he said. “They all do a lot of really great things.”
Other student speakers included Suhail Barot, graduate student and SECS member, spoke on campus climate action plans and how to effectively leverage students.
He said not many students attended the event because many had class while it was scheduled, which was disappointing.
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People from all over the state flocked to Champaign this Friday for the 5th Annual Sustainable University Symposium at the I-Hotel, 1900 S. 1st St., Champaign.
About 400 people attended the event, which included speakers such as Gov. Pat Quinn, Robert Easter and Michael J. Hogan.
William Kelleher, senior in Engineering, spoke on student led campus biodiesel production for carbon reduction because he has had experience in that field.
“I was in charge of a group that turns our campus dining hall waste vegetable oil into fuel for university vehicles,” he said.
This campus is an especially sustainably oriented, Kelleher said.
“We have the student sustainability committee with the billion dollar annual budget now, so that’s really significant. We have the student farm, the student biodiesel movement, and Student for Environmental concerns,” he said. “They all do a lot of really great things.”
Other student speakers included Suhail Barot, graduate student and SECS member, spoke on campus climate action plans and how to effectively leverage students.
He said not many students attended the event because many had class while it was scheduled, which was disappointing.
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