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Green Roof Project

Finding a solution to a problem rarely involves moving directly from point A to B. Instead, the problem in itself changes and new obstacles present themselves along the way, leading to an unprecedented...

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Water Pressures Documentary screening

Water Pressures was screened at Northwestern on 20 March and will be shown at Columbia on 5 April.  Kudos to the groups who gathered and we hope some great action plans result. The post Water Pressures...

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What’s a SmartTree? Creating awareness about solar energy on campus (and...

The Design Thinking and Communication course at Northwestern creates groups of engineering students and assigns them to a client, in this case the Northwestern Clean Energy Project.  The students learn...

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An Introduction to Northwestern University’s SmartTree

Our first introduction post can be found here. SmartTree was born out of Northwestern’s Student Club, Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW) when we found out we had some solar panels that had been...

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Northwestern SmartTree End of Quarter Update

The Spring Quarter wrapped up in the past couple weeks at Northwestern, and ESW does not plan to meet over the summer; however, we have made great progress this year overall! Through the past three...

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SmartTree in the Middle of Summer

The beautiful days in Chicago this summer have made me think about how I would love to be able to plug in on Northwestern’s beautiful Lakefill using the power of Solar Energy! In other news, the club...

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Oh no! My cell phone battery is dead…

With the almost continual reliance on staying connected nowadays, a dead cell phone battery can be a catastrophic event in one’s daily life.  Remembering to charge that device to keep it functioning...

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