GET City took a trip to Lansing Community College (LCC) and visited Sean Huberty, a professor in the Alternative Energy Program Technology Program. They learned about LCC’s “off the grid house” that they designed and plan to build in Northern Michigan.
“Show Green” Competition Winners!
On Saturday, Get City veterans Jasmine Boyd, Camryn Turner, Chantalice Hicks, Jayla Dunlap and Jessalyn Embry walked away with awards for their entries in the Energy Works Michigan “Show Green” Student Film Challenge.
What we learned from solar and wind experiments
Today the GET city group participated in demonstrations of solar and wind technology. These demonstrations showed the students how natural resources can produce energy without using fossil fuels. After the demonstrations, two questions were asked: What did you learn, and what questions do you have? Here are some of the answers:
Introductions
Introducing the Get City participants for 2010-2011!
Painting Chicago Green
August 19-20 a group of 16 GET Citians trekked from Lansing to Chicago to expand their work on green energy technologies.
Summer Surprise
Thanks to Michigan Energy Options and Riverfront Cycles for donating bikes for all participants in GET City’s 2010 summer program. The theme was “Complete Streets” and this gift will give GET Citians a chance to practice alternative energy! We even made the local news- check it out below.
Make that Change
Jazzy, Chantalice and Camryn visited their school, Pleasant View Elementary, in search of incandescent bulbs that could be replaced with with CFLs. In this video, they explain why that’s important. It also looks like a lot of fun!
Coal Rap
Bianca & Theresa rap about coal In this video rap, we tell you the story of coal: how it is harvested and its impact on the environment. This is important because many electricity plants use coal to make electricity.
Repower America
Aaron and Nick show Daryll the video wall at repoweramerica.org Aaron Quinney and Nick Clark, Mid-Michigan reps for Repower America, came by the club to visit with GET City today. Nick and Aaron talked to the club about how we all have tools and resources to solve the climate crisis, by using less energy, using …
Change a light, Change Michigan (Update)
Jessalyn and Chontealice show off their progress in changing incadescent bulbs for CFLs. They’re also measuring energy saved and carbon dioxide emissions eliminated. Did you know that incandescent light bulbs use five times as much energy as compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs), causing more coal to be burned and more carbon to be emitted into …
