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Events Promote Sustainability Awareness at Home and Far-Far Away
Director, writer and actress Angela Sun will visit the Urbana-Champaign campus at 6 p.m. on Tues., Oct. 21 for a screening of her film “Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch.” The documentary records the plight of the natural ecosystem of … Continue reading
Middle Schoolers Celebrate Clean Power on Earth Day
On Earth Day, April 22, Jefferson Middle School hosted a ribbon cutting to celebrate the completion of their 3.5 kW h wind turbine project. The clean energy project was funded by the Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation, ISTC, and high … Continue reading
Engineer Explains the Promise of the Other Hydrogen Fuel
Junhua Jiang, Senior Research Engineer at ISTC is featured in two Lightning Talk presentations from 2011 now available on the Prairie Research Institute’s YouTube channel. In one talk, Jiang deals with his work on improving electrochemical nanostructured microelectrodes for sensing … Continue reading
Sustainability Seminar Series: February 2013
ISTC will host two more seminars this month.
Illinois Biochar Group Meeting – Fall 2012
The Illinois Sustainable Technology Center (ISTC) is getting ready to host its fall Illinois Biochar Group meeting. Meetings are held three times a year and are usually located at ISTC. The Illinois Biochar Group encourages research in the production and … Continue reading
Science & Technology at the Market
This fall the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center (ISTC) at the University of Illinois will be presenting information about several of its research and outreach projects at Urbana’s Market at the Square. Topics include: • September 22 – Waste Biomass Projects: … Continue reading
Scientists look to turning plastics into oil
On Midway Island in the Pacific Ocean, a mother albatross returns from a trip out to sea to feed her chick. Unfortunately, she has mistaken a few of the countless, small pieces of plastic in a floating island of garbage … Continue reading
Campus food waste become campus soap
When students who produce sustainable energy generate a “waste product,” they don’t wash their hands of it. They wash their hands with it. Members of the soap group of the Illinois Biodiesel Initiative (IBI), are experimenting with recipes to create … Continue reading