Questions?
E-Mail Stephen Nason, Director of Residence Life/Assistant Dean for Student Affairs or telephone (207) 948-3131 ext 284
Sustainability In Residence Life
Residence Life Sustainability Reports
Sustainability Articles
- Defining Sustainability
- Take Back the Tap
- You Can't Manage What You Don't Measure
- Unity Student Passive House Transforming the Approach to Student Housing
Sustainability Links
- NASPA region one Sustainability Knowledge Community
- Green Student
- Climate Culture
- Carbon Footprint
- Vampire Energy
- How much water do you use
- Energy Star
All Residence Halls
- Environmentally Farmed Timbered residential furniture in resident rooms, study rooms, and lounges.
- Centralized recyclying bins in each residence hall collecting white paper, color paper, cardboard, bottles & cans, and metal & glass.
- "Green" cleaning chemicals are used by custodial staff to clean residential common areas.
Cianchette Hall
- Alaskan Slab floor hot water heating system
Cottages
- Eco-Cottage living/learning housing where students can experience using solar and/or wind power to power their living areas.
Eastview
Maplewood
- Alaskan Slab in floor hot water heating system
- Solar Tube lighting in hallways
- R34 walls
- R52 roof
TerraHaus
- Passive Energy building using sunlight as the passive energy source
- R50 walls
- R80 roof
- R70
- R8 windows
- designed to use about 186 Btu per hour compared to 11,000 Btu per hour a normal similar size building would use (about 14 Btu per square foot per year).
- After the passive energy gains, the building’s remaining heat needs will be met with electric heat with an annual cost of $335.
- huge two-story windows are situated so that they get the maximum sunlight in the winter and minimum sunlight in the summer
Westview
- Extra insulation in roof
Wood Hall.JPG "Wood Hall front 2")
- New roof