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JCCC Student Senate sponsors presentation of An Inconvenient Truth
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Written 4/26/07
Story by Julie Haas

JCCC Student Senate sponsors presentation of An Inconvenient Truth

Overland Park, Kan. – The Student Environmental Alliance at Johnson County Community College will sponsor a live presentation of the slideshow seen in An Inconvenient Truth, narrated by Mary English, Prairie Village, who was trained by Al Gore, at 6:30 p.m. May 2 in room 211 of the Carlsen Center on campus.

 In keeping with the tradition of energy management and sustainable design at JCCC, the Student Senate recently passed a resolution asking the college to obtain 10 percent of its energy needs from clean renewable energy by 2012 and increase that amount by at least 10 percent every five years.

The Student Senate’s clean renewable energy policy draft will be presented to the board’s Facilities committee in May.

The Student Senate notes the college’s consideration of environmental and economic impacts of the s design and electrical demands. The college was designed to be environmentally friendly and has done many things over the years to reduce pollution and conserve energy. For example:

  • An underground thermal storage tank in the center of the campus cools water at night for use in the air conditioning system.
  • All lighting systems are operated by a timed computer system and motion detectors have been placed in classrooms to ensure that the lights are shut off if no one is in them.
  • Two new buildings currently under construction were designed to meet LEED standards and built with red brick from Hoisenton and white limestone from St. Mary’s, Kan.
  • The roof of the Horticulture Science Building on campus was designed to catch rainfall and send it to a 10,000-gallon storage tank where it could be saved and used for irrigation purposes.

For more information about the Senate’s proposal, contact Benjamin Leary, 913-915-8161, benlry@gmail.com.