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Going Green while Saving Green GREEN ALTERNATIVES TO BLACK OIL NATIVES Cornell left is already using its location to help conserve energy, while the future site of UNC Asheville's Craft Campus is both pretty and powerful. use the methane from the Yancey County landfill to power kilns, The program isn't up and running yet, as they are still testing forges, and foundry applications. Power for kilns, glass furnaces, their brew to make sure it won't damage vehicle engines. Currently, and forges can be prohibitively expensive, but landfill gas vastly re- fleet vehicles run on B2 2 percent biodiesel , all of which is pur- duces or eliminates the energy costs, says Dan Millspaugh, director chased from an outside source. But if their homemade product is of Craft Campus and an art professor. Plans are also in the works to up to snuff, the university will save a bundle upward of $25,000 use cogeneration to produce heat and hot water, and the school has annually if we process 100 percent of the WVO, predicts Chris erected a wind tower to test the site's potential for wind power. Bachman, assistant professor of Integrated Science and Technology. Landfill gas not only reduces dependency on oil, but also, ac- Biodiesel is popular. Students at the University of Michigan in- cording to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, it is the only vestigated a similar project, estimating savings of $28,000 per year, renewable energy source that, when used, directly prevents atmo- and Eastern Connecticut State University is piloting a program spheric pollution. that uses B20 20 percent biodiesel to heat two residence halls. These uses of alternative energy prove that, with a little bit of Almost as ubiquitous as cooking oil are landfills and the methane thinking outside the oil can, IHEs can protect their budgets as well they produce. The University of North Carolina at Asheville is de- as the environment. signing its new Craft Campus, scheduled to open in fall 2008, to CITICAPITAL WENT TO COLLEGE AND MADE DEAN'S LIST. and other infrastructure assets, update your ne of the challenges of a school computer and telecommunications systems administrator is how to stretch your dollars or improve your office technology, furniture further than ever to create the best learning and fixtures. environment while staying within budget. It's a tough assignment, but you can do it We'll even do the math to structure a schedule when you finance your capital projects that lets you use the savings generated by through CitiCapital. your new energy efficiency equipment to make your lease payments. That's worth a gold star for CitiCapital offers flexible financing you and your students. To learn more, call CitiCapital programs,including tax exempt financing. at 1-866 - 4 1 4 - C I T I . So you can acquire energy efficiency equipment O G4 | June 2006 universitybusiness.com GreenEnergy.indd G4 5/18/06 11:23:50 AM http://universitybusiness.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of University Business - June 2006

Contents
College Index
Advisory Board
Company Index
Editor's Note
2006 AV Buyers Guide
Admissions
Internet Technology
On the Hill
Financial Aid
Going Green while Saving Green
Viewpoint
Back from the Breach
Value Added
Need Help?
Shared Pain & Payoffs
What's New
Direct Connect
Calendar of Events
End Note

University Business - June 2006