William Atkins
Tuesday, 25 November 2008 02:25
Science -
Energy
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College students at Allegheny College, in Meadville, Pennsylvania, are hanging their undergarments (bras, socks, undies) out to dry as part of 350 Project—an international campaign to make people aware that 350 parts per million is the highest level of carbon emissions that Earth’s atmosphere can tolerate before irreversible damage occurs.
Their message, as stated in the
Fox News article “
Coeds take off underwear to be ‘green’” is “
… even something as simple as hanging out clothes to dry can be helpful.
The western Pennsylvania college,
Allegheny College, is a national liberal arts college about over 2,000 students. Check out "
Environmental Initiatives at Allegheny College."
As of November 24, 2008, exactly 350 pieces (for 350 parts per million (ppm) of carbon emissions in the Earth's atmosphere) of collegiate underwear, collected from the students in class “Environmental Science 101,” are hung up outside the Allegheny College Campus Center.
These environmentally aware students hope that people who see the underwear with messages across the material, and read about it in articles such as this one, will help with saving energy and help reduce the amount of dangerous carbon-dioxide emissions into our atmosphere.
A video of the underwear project is found at the Meadville Tribune website “
VIDEO: Underwear project at Allegheny College.”
Lauren Quintrell, part of the Allegheny College project stated,
“At first, we thought about hanging 350 bed sheets on clotheslines to express the ‘350 Project.’ But we soon figured out that we wouldn’t be able to collect 350 sheets.” [Meadville Tribune]
Information on 350 Project is found on page two.
