{"id":1592,"date":"2012-08-17T15:30:47","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T20:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/?p=1592"},"modified":"2012-08-17T15:30:47","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T20:30:47","slug":"us-dept-of-energy-digging-sustainability-at-umm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2012\/08\/17\/us-dept-of-energy-digging-sustainability-at-umm\/","title":{"rendered":"US Dep&#8217;t of Energy digging sustainability at UMM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hUPA8WOJzIQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Department of Energy is featuring a small set of six U.S. colleges and universities that they feel are doing cool things to help us move into a more sustainable future. <a href=\"http:\/\/energy.gov\/articles\/morris-minnesota-creating-sustainable-college-campus-and-local-jobs\">The second video to be &#8220;aired&#8221;<\/a>? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.morris.umn.edu\/\">The University of Minnesota, Morris<\/a> :-)<\/p>\n<p>Our computing folks are getting involved in this by building tools that will help provide community members with current (hopefully nearly real-time) information on both energy consumption and production. Down the road we&#8217;re hoping to give people some predictive assistance, suggesting possible times when discretionary high-load jobs would take best advantage of things like our wind turbines.<\/p>\n<p>Most (all?) of the photos from Fashion Trashion (about two minutes in) were also taken by yours truly. Thanks to Jess for inviting me to take photos at these extremely cool events.<\/p>\n\n\t<div class=\"st-post-tags \">\n\tTags: <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/college\/\" title=\"college\">college<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/colleges-and-universities\/\" title=\"colleges and universities\">colleges and universities<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/computing\/\" title=\"Computing\">Computing<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/department-of-energy\/\" title=\"department of energy\">department of energy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/energy\/\" title=\"energy\">energy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/energy-consumption\/\" title=\"energy consumption\">energy consumption<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/fashion-trashion\/\" title=\"Fashion Trashion\">Fashion Trashion<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/minnesota\/\" title=\"minnesota\">minnesota<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/sustainability\/\" title=\"sustainability\">sustainability<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/sustainable-future\/\" title=\"sustainable future\">sustainable future<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/turbine\/\" title=\"turbine\">turbine<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/umm\/\" title=\"UMM\">UMM<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/universities\/\" title=\"universities\">universities<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/university\/\" title=\"university\">university<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/university-of-minnesota-morris\/\" title=\"University of Minnesota Morris\">University of Minnesota Morris<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/video\/\" title=\"Video\">Video<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/wind-turbines\/\" title=\"wind turbines\">wind turbines<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/youtube\/\" title=\"YouTube\">YouTube<\/a><br \/><\/div>\n\n\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2010\/06\/24\/computer-scientist-foolishly-submits-photography-to-art-jury-for-campus-building-no-film-anytime-soon\/\" title=\"Computer Scientist foolishly submits photography to art jury for campus building (no film anytime soon) (24 Jun 10)\">Computer Scientist foolishly submits photography to art jury for campus building (no film anytime soon)<\/a> (2)<\/li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2013\/03\/25\/remembering-richard-crandall\/\" title=\"Remembering Richard Crandall (25 Mar 13)\">Remembering Richard Crandall<\/a> (0)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Energy posts video featuring the sustainability efforts at the University of Minnesota, Morris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[4,17,16,20],"tags":[703,748,859,750,147,747,539,246,583,749,653,225,550,559,158,876,496,278],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-pG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1249,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2010\/04\/06\/what-should-a-new-umm-director-of-information-technology-person-do\/","url_meta":{"origin":1592,"position":0},"title":"What should a new UMM Director of Information Technology person do?","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"6 Apr 10","format":false,"excerpt":"This is essentially a re-posting from the UMM CSci blog. UMM has recently opened a position for a new Director of Information Technology. The full job description is attached, and the description and application page are on-line. 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