Bring your e-waste to the Sustainable Energy Fair!
14 Mar
This year SEF is partnering with Inorganic Market to recycle e-waste. Inorganic Market repurposes and recycles old electronics to reduce the amount of waste that is shipped to landfills every year. So bring your old or broken iPods, printers, routers, cables and hard drives to the fair to be responsibly recycled free of charge.
For more information including which items are accepted please see this page.
29 Jan
2012 International Year of Sustainable Energy for All!
Sustainable energy should be an international priority, not just because of growing concerns about the environment, but also due to the great opportunities for development that it introduces to communities. It was by recognizing this that the UN declared 2012 the International Year of Sustainability for all.
This UN incentive is aimed at enabling participating governments and organizations in achieving the following objectives by 2030:
- ensuring universal access to modern energy services
- doubling the rate of improvement in energy efficiency
- doubling the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix
Incentives from providing clean cooking stoves that will reduce biomass fuel consumption to multinational conferences to raise awareness about the benefits of sustainable energy will take around the world in 2012. Communities of all sizes are encouraged to participate by organizing events that educate and raise awareness. Events taking place all over the world will be recorded in a map at http://sustainableenergyforall.org/events.
The University of Toronto Sustainable Energy Fair 2012 will join this global event registry and take place on Friday, March 16, 2012! Join the worldwide conversation by checking us out! And add your comments to this post to suggest ideas for our panel discussion.
Enter the Home Sweet Home Challenge!
16 JanThe 2012-13 OntarioGreenSpec.ca Home Sweet Home Student Challenge is open to all full-time students at accredited post-secondary institutions in Ontario, and is particularly well suited to students of architecture, engineering, construction, environmental technologies, design, and related fields. Success in this competition demands rigorous product specification research and technical design considerations, as well as attention to marketability and aesthetics.
Team entries are encouraged (up to four members) and may be inter-disciplanary and/or inter-institutional. The entry fee is $50 per team.
The Challenge will remain open for a full year to engage all semesters. The closing date is March 1, 2013, with awards the following month. At the awards function, student finalists are recognized alongside their professional counterparts in the parallel Home Sweet Home Competition, and provided with other career-networking opportunities.
http://hsh-competition.ca [Look for the Student Challenge section]
SEF Goes Social!
29 DecSustainable Energy Fair has embraced the tools of social media in the hopes of reaching more of you!
Like the Facebook page, follow @uoftsef on Twitter, and visit regularly for updates on facts and events in the world of sustainability.
Happy networking, SEF!
Be a Chair on the SEF 2012 Organizing Committee!
7 SepBe a part of this awesome event by joining the SEF 2012 Coordinating Team. We are currently recruiting until October 23rd for new members! You will meet great people, have a chance to network with industry professionals, and influence positive change. If you are interested, please email uoftsef@gmail.com for more details.
The Sustainable Energy Fair is an annual event in March that showcases ideas about our first steps towards a sustainable energy future through exciting exhibits from companies, student groups, community organizations, and researchers, and features an interactive discussion panel with Ontario’s leading industry experts. Participants will be educated on the consequences of today’s energy use patterns, the challenges posed by the coming transition, and new technologies that will play a bigger role in the future.
Call for Recruits!
24 AugSEF 2012 is getting ready for a new year… and we want your help! Volunteers are needed for two upcoming Club Days (events held to make incoming students knowledgeable about their extra-curricular options)!
If you would love to meet and interact with lots of new people, you should join us at the SEF booths to help make students at the University of Toronto aware of our cause!
The events run on Tuesday September 6th from 8am to 12pm, and Wednesday September 7th from 10am to 2pm.
If you are interested in helping us out, please e-mail uoftsef@gmail.com for more details!
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