The
Smith Sustainability Scavenger
Hunt
• Please register your
team online:
• Teams should be from a single
house (Adas who don’t live in houses may create
their own teams)--No team may have
more than 10 members (therefore if 20 people from your
house want to play, divide into two teams).
• Prizes will be awarded
to the two top-scoring teams. Judging will be based on
accuracy, completeness and creativity of answers--and especially
creativity.
• Important Dates/Times:
Completed answers due by noon on Friday, September 4 in
Bass Hall 107; Prizes! Everyone who participates receives
a gift--big prizes for the top two teams--along with interesting
and witty commentary, at 7 p.m. on Sunday, September 6,
in Sage Hall.
• If you ask other teams for answers, you don’t
learn much, and Smith is about learning.
• Please obey all laws
and keep out of private and locked spaces.
• Good luck! Here are the
questions:
Food and
Agriculture
1. Name
three vegetables planted in the Smith Community garden in
summer 2009 (1 pt.)
• Provide the GPS coordinates
for the Community Garden (3 pts.)
2. Name up to three places
locally where you can get a vegan meal (1 pt. each)
3. There’s
an architectural element on campus that depicts local agricultural
history and what we would consider a tough workout. Where
is the element? What are they picking? (5 pts.)
Water
4.
What’s
special about the toilets in Ford Hall? (1 pt.)
• Design a communications piece
that describes this to building users (up
to 10 pts.)
Waste
5. What’s a project you can
do with an old plastic bag (Hint: Smith Environmental Sustainability
FB page) (1 pt.)
• Submit an example – (up to
10 pts.)
6. Name a location where you
can recycle an old cell phone, ipod, a CFL, or battery on
campus (1 pt.)
Transportation
7. Submit the
rubbing of the license plate from a Smith campus ZIP Car
(3 pts.)
8. Design a new bike rack for
the Campus Center and identify where it should be installed
(up to 10 pts.)
9. What are the 3-step instructions
on the bike rack on a PVTA bus? (2 pts.)
• Re-write them in iambs, limerick
or haiku (up to 10 pts.)
Energy
10. Describe in your
own words how Smith’s co-gen
system works (up to 5 pts.)
11. Name up to five ways to
keep an electric device from being a “vampire.” (1 pt each.)
12. Where is there a solar hot
water system on the Smith Campus? What does it do? (3 pts.)
Smith People
and Culture
13.
Bring back a rubbing from the office name plate of a current
or past chair of the Committee on Sustainability. (1 pt.
for each.)
14. Where and when will the
Green Team meet this fall? Submit a rubbing from the number
plate of the room where meetings will be held. (3 pts.)
15.
List 7 of the possible 12 departments from which faculty
advisers in the Environmental Science and Policy Program
come. (2 pts.)
16. List up to five ways that
students can get involved with environmental/sustainability
issues on campus. (1 pt. each.)
17. On page 185 of The
Green Collar Economy Van Jones writes:
“Many of the best ideas have not yet surfaced or been taken
to scale. As the green wave encompasses more people, it will
produce more innovation, inventiveness and passion than we
cannot possibly appreciate or imagine.”
Describe what skills, knowledge or inspiration you hope the
Smith community at large can provide you in preparation for
a greener future (up to 5 pts.)
• Submit your answer in verse
(up to 10 additional pts.) |
