Beginning in March 2007, the staff at the Gateway Center at the University of Washington began an effort to share our knowledge and further educate ourselves about climate change.

This webpage is our repository for the artifacts associated with this effort.

Flyers

The flyers below were provided courtesy of the green effort at Evidence Based Treatment Centers of Seattle, PLLC. Click to download as Word documents.

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Resources

...in no particular order

• President Emmert's "Office Hours" video on the environment: In this 9-minute video, President Emmert talks about preserving the environment for future generations and some of the things the UW is doing to address the challenge.
• Standby Power Data: This site is about how much power appliances use when they aren't on but are still plugged in. It lists various appliances and their wattage but it also has a page where you can find specific brands or appliances to find ones that use one watt or less when in standby mode.
• The Story of Stuff: Annie Leonard, an expert in international sustainability and environmental health issues, hosts a 20-minute video about stuff. From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world.
• Pioneer Organics: For home delivery of organic fruits and vegetables.
• The Green Guide: Their vision is to be "the go-to source of information about practical everyday, environmentally responsible and health-minded product choices and actions." Includes product reviews, videos, tips of the week, etc.
• Smart Strip power strips: A power strip that suspends power to all PC peripherals connected to the handful of clearly marked jacks, making shutdown fast and easy and saving energy.
• "Blackle" custom Google search: This Google search page is primarily black, saving the energy consumed in turning all those pixels white. However, since LCD screens consume energy even to display black, the savings only works on CRTs (i.e., old-style monitors).
• UW's Common Book (2007-2008): Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert.
• "The First Sign of Global Warming": A short, funny video featuring a cosmetological polar bear. [WMV format, 500K]
• Waste Free Holidays: Give experiences instead of stuff! Get discounts if you do so!
• Stuff: The Secret Life of Everyday Things: by John C. Ryan and Alan Thein Durning. Mother Jones, September/October 1997 writes: "Documenting a day in the life of the average North American consumer, Stuff: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things, deconstructs the American Dream by unraveling the hidden costs behind the objects around us. From our morning cup of Columbian coffee to our South Korean-made sneakers, the book traces the environmental impact of the consumer decisions most of us make without thinking...Only occasionally verging on preachiness, this readable 88-page book is definitely worth the paper it's printed on."