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+ | <h1 class="box-heading">Green accomplishments</h1> | ||
+ | <p> In our GoGreenGuide we listed various suggestions for actions towards a green iGEM competition. Here are the tasks our team fulfilled: </p> | ||
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− | < | + | <li> Make your lab environmentally friendly </li> |
+ | <li> Organize your meetings and <a href="https://2017.igem.org/Team:TU_Dresden/Collaborations#GWM" style="color: green"><b>meetups</b></a> in an environmentally friendly manner </li> | ||
+ | <li> Track your labs consumption of materials and energy to calculate your teams GHG emission | ||
+ | <p class="reference"> We created an <a href="https://2017.igem.org/Team:TU_Dresden/iGEM-goes-green/Resources#calculator" style="color: green"><b>Excel tool</b></a> to calculate the carbon footprint of labwork </p></li> | ||
+ | <li> We calculated our teams <a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2017/c/c6/T--TU_Dresden--GG_Certificate.jpeg" style="color: green"><b>total GHG footprint</b></a> </li> | ||
+ | <li> We <a href="https://2017.igem.org/Team:TU_Dresden/HP/Gold_Integrated#compensating" style="color: green"><b>compensated</b></a> our teams' flights and our entire emissions. </li> | ||
+ | <li> Involve the public even more by organizing events </li> | ||
+ | <li> Help improve the <a href="https://2017.igem.org/Team:TU_Dresden/iGEM-goes-green/Resources#guide" style="color: green"><b>GoGreenGuide</b></a> by correcting mistakes or even sending us additional ideas or suggestions </br> <p class="reference"> We integrated all the feedback we received from teams in a new version of our <a href="https://2017.igem.org/Team:TU_Dresden/iGEM-goes-green/Resources#guide" style="color: green"><b>GoGreenGuide</b></a>. </p></li> | ||
+ | <li> Collect the money to <a href="https://2017.igem.org/Team:TU_Dresden/HP/Gold_Integrated#tree" style="color: green"><b>plant a tree</b></a>.</li> | ||
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+ | <h1 class="box-heading">Our experience</h1> | ||
+ | <h2> ... and what we can learn from it</h2> | ||
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− | We started our | + | We started our iGEM goes green adventure with a lot of motivation and enthusiasm. But we immediately had to face a lot of problems that halted our initial euphoria. Here we want to portray that planning and implementing a sustainable project is not always easy going and that bureaucratic obstacles, personal attitude and the lack of money can affect the realization and the efficiency of such project. </p> |
<h3>Bureaucracy</h3> | <h3>Bureaucracy</h3> | ||
− | <p>Our idea of planting trees was slowed down in the beginning when we figured out that there are many regulations of where, when and how to plant trees in Germany. Many emails and phone calls were necessary until we finally found our iGEM tree | + | <p>Our idea of planting trees was slowed down in the beginning when we figured out that there are many regulations of where, when, and how to plant trees in Germany. Many emails and phone calls were necessary until we finally found a spot for our iGEM tree. </p> |
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<h3>Personal interest </h3> | <h3>Personal interest </h3> | ||
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− | 14 different people – 14 different opinions. As an international and interdisciplinary group of students from different programs, varying in age, experience and habits it was often difficult to come to a solution everybody was happy with. | + | 14 different people – 14 different opinions. As an international and interdisciplinary group of students from different programs, varying in age, experience, and habits it was often difficult to come to a solution everybody was happy with. |
− | This became even clearer during the preparations for our German | + | This became even clearer during the preparations for our German-wide meetup event. Having members with vegan diets and dedicated meat eaters and everything in between amongst our team, the discussion what should be served for dinner was intense and emotional. Having a barbecue for 50 people without providing meat seemed unimaginable for parts of the team but buying big amounts of meat that in the worst case would produce leftovers was inconsistent with our ambitions towards acting sustainably. </p> |
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− | In the end we hosted a Tortilla party with delicious | + | In the end, we hosted a Tortilla party with delicious vegetables, handmade spreads, and meat alternatives which reduced the amount of organic chicken required. All of our guests were happy and satisfied afterward – so our final compromise was effective.</p> |
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− | Nevertheless, we had to accept that our team reflects the social debate about sustainability. In our not everybody totally supports the GoGreen part of our project | + | Nevertheless, we had to accept that our team reflects the social debate about sustainability. In our opinion, not everybody totally supports the GoGreen part of our project, but there are also people who really want to make changes towards a “greener” lab work and lifestyle. |
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− | <b>In the end we believe that we made iGEM goes green an interesting and successful project | + | <b>In the end, we believe that we made iGEM goes green an interesting and successful project! We hit some walls but also achieved some breakthroughs and we all learned that the way to success always requires compromises.</b> |
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