Sustainable Enterprise Accelerator

November 2013

Universal Wasteland
Get Involved

November 7
Rising Artist Showcase
7 p.m. in ATS Lobby
Business Casual Event

November 11
Buy Organic, Buy Local
7 p.m. at the Macoskey
Center
November 14
Slow Foods Meeting
6 p.m. at La Famiglia
Italian food theme & beer
making demonstration
November 30
PASSHE Business Plan
Competition Intent to
Compete Deadline

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john.golden@sru.edu

Sustainable
Enterprise
Accelerator
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-Stephanie Skinger, Editor

When you think recycling, often what comes to mind is a way of getting rid
of cans and bottles that helps reduce space in landfills. But its not all bagging up
some cans and putting them on the curb for pickup. In our October newsletter
we brought you an article about Terracycling on campus. Terracycling takes
hard-to-recycle items like shampoo bottles and mascara tubes and repurposes
them (for more information visit www.terracycle.com). But what about other
hard-to-recycle items like laptop batteries and fluorescent light bulbs? Paul
Novak, director of Slippery Rock Universitys Department of Environmental
Health & Safety, says those items must be recycled, or at least disposed of
properly.
We cant throw those away even if we wanted to, Novak said.
Novak explained that there are some materials that are special kinds of
waste. Everything is considered solid waste, but then there are subsets that solid
waste is categorized under. Hazardous waste, such as lab chemicals, must be
disposed of properly. Chemicals are collected from SRUs labs, packaged up and
stored in a small hazardous waste facility, and then twice a year a transporter
comes to take them away.
Novak went on to say that hazardous waste has its own subset, universal
waste.
Some of those, if you choose to manage by recyclingchanges their
designation from hazardous waste to universal waste, Novak said.
According to Novak, there are three major categories of universal wastefluorescent lamps, rechargeable batteries, and e-waste (or electronic waste).
These are items that cannot be thrown away because they pose a threat to the
environment. Used fluorescent light bulbs, for example, have some mercury in
them. We are required to manage these items in a certain way, and Novak says
it makes sense, environmentally and financially, for the University to recycle
them.
As of January 24, 2013, PA law put a ban on throwing away covered devices
and their components under the Covered Device Recycling Act. This means
that you can no longer throw away items like computers and televisions, they
must be recycled.
Novak says he has been working with Paul Scanlon, Special Assistant to
the President for Sustainability Planning & Operations, to have an e-waste day,
where the university and Slippery Rock community could get together to recycle
e-waste all at once (since the university does not handle community waste) but
its still in the planning stages.
Novak has also been working on getting an area designated as the SRU
recycling center. He says it would be nice to have all the recycling in one area
rather than spread out, and would make it easier to promote recycling to the
community.
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Basically, Novaks message to the SRU community: bring in your recyclables, they are collected and
bagged up every day. And definitely bring in your universal waste. You can drop off items like laptops at the
Department of Environmental Health and Safety office. If youre not sure about what can be recycled and what
cant, the Environmental Health and Safety page on SRUs website can be found at
http://www.sru.edu/financeandadministrativeaffairs/EnvironmentalHealthandSafety
Any student that has any questions and needs to recycle anything can contact us, Novak said.
A list of SRU campus recyclables is also listed below:
- Aluminum cans, glass & plastic bottles
- Cardboard
- Paper (non-confidential)
- Paper (confidential)
- Universal Waste

Used lamps (fluorescent)

Non-alkaline batteries

Non-PCB ballasts

Electronic waste, including monitors

- Miscellaneous
Tires

Scrap metal

Toner cartridges

SRU Professor Attends DC Technology Conference

Dr. Frances M. Amatucci, associate professor in the School of Business at Slippery Rock, attended the
international conference, Energizing Low Income Communities: Realizing the Promise of DC Technology
in Prague, Czech Republic on October 4-5, 2013. The conference was organized by the Business of Humanity
Project (www.katz.pitt.edu/boh) at the University of Pittsburgh and Nupharo Park in Prague (www.nupharo.
com) The Business of Humanity project was founded by Dr. John C. Camillus, Donald R. Beall (Professor of
Strategic Management at the Katz Graduate School of Business) and Dr.
Bopaya Bidanda (Ernest Roth Professor and Chairman, Swanson School
of Engineering, both at the University of Pittsburgh). Nupharo Park is a
new business incubator and innovation center for smart, clean energy.
The two-day conference was attended by seventy participants from
three continents representing business, government, non-government
organizations (NGOs) and academia. The purpose was to bring together
a network of knowledge and capabilities to accelerate the adoption of
DC technology in urban, low-income neighborhoods. In the legendary
War of the Currents, alternating current (AC) advocated by Nicola Tesla
and George Westinghouse won out over direct current (DC) advocated by Thomas Edison as the standard for
electrical power transmission. However, with the advancement of technology today, DC proponents claim it
offers advantages related to cost savings and increased energy efficiency. Most consumer electronics, such as
tablets, PCs and flat-screen TVs, run on direct current and must use an AC adaptor to turn the AC into DC.
Also, DC is more compatible with renewable sources and local generation of power.
Other participants from Western Pennsylvania included William Peduto, Democratic mayoral candidate;
Grant Oliphant, President of Pittsburgh Foundation; Aradhna Oliphant, President of Leadership Pittsburgh,
Inc.; and faculty from the University of Pittsburgh, Slippery Rock University, Robert Morris University, Carnegie
Mellon University, Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Edinboro University. Timothy E. Martinson,
Director of Starline DC Solutions in Canonsburg, PA, was one of the keynote speakers.

Taste of the Season: Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread

-Michele Sneddon

Ever wonder what to do with the insides of the pumpkin that you take
out when you carve it for Halloween? If you puree them, you can turn the
seemingly useless guts of the pumpkin into delicious bread to serve to
all your friends. If youve already tossed this out or want to make this dish
during the rest of the year, you can simply use pumpkin puree from your
grocery store, but be sure it is not pumpkin pie mix.

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Ingredients:

Instructions:
1. Preheat oven to 350F degrees. Grease & flour loaf pan.
2. Sift together flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder & salt.
3. Combine pumpkin, eggs, oil, vanilla & sour cream until smooth.
4. Make a well in the flour mixture & pour in wet ingredients.
Whisk together until smooth.
5. Fold in 1 cup of chocolate chips.
6. Pour into prepared loaf pan. Sprinkle 1/4 cup chocolate chips on top.
7. Bake 60-75 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
8. Cool in pan on a wire rack 20 minutes before removing to wire rack
to cool completely.
9. Dust top with powdered sugar to garnish.

1 cup pumpkin puree

1 tsp vanilla
3 eggs
1/4 cup sour cream
3/4 cup vegetable oil
1 cup sugar 1 2/3 cup flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 cup + 1/4 cup chocolate chips
powdered sugar, to garnish

Heatless Hairstyles

-Taylor Huerbin

Hey Ladies! Tired of constant curling, crimping, and straightening just to end up with hair
that frizzes an hour later? Tired of racking up that electric bill by accidentally leaving your
straightener plugged in for hours at a time? Well, theres an easy solution for that: the Internet!
Technology is ever present in todays society, so why not utilize it? Get on that computer,
iPhone, or any gadgets of yours that connect to the Internet and go crazy exploring Pinterest.
com, Youtube.com and search engines like Google. These easy-to-use websites offer a wide
variety of creative ideas to help you with any task you are looking to tackle, like heatless
hairstyles. Simply do a search on any of these sites, typing in heatless hairstyles or some
variation of that. This will give you a plethora of image and video tutorials on how to braid,
weave, crimp and twist your hair for that desired look without racking up your electric bills!
Many styling utensils such as blow dryers, straighteners, hot rollers, crimpers, and curling
irons damage hair from constant extreme temperature exposure. Using these styling tools
extensively causes the hair cuticle to become dry, brittle and eventually crack, leading to
more dead ends and frizz. Constant styling also damages your wallet by unnecessarily using
electricity. According to Science Club by Cockeyed.com, after various tests with these named
electric appliances, heat is the main component contributing to higher electricity usage.
Cockeyed.com gives the breakdown of electricity usage when styling with a blow dryer: Low
air, low heat: 66 watts; low air, med heat: 375 watts; low air, high heat; 622 watts, high air, low
heat: 119 watts; high air, med heat: 742 watts; high air, high heat: 1,239 watts. So ladies, if you
cant handle giving up your styling tools, at least lower the heat settings on them to use less
electricity, save money, and save your hair!
Image from Pintrest.com

SEA Snapshot

SEA Updates
The Sustainable Enterprise Accelerator
sponsored the POWER OF AN
IDEA PANEL on October 29. The
entrepreneurs behind Martys Market
(located in the Strip District) and Reyna
Foods (also in the Strip District) spoke
about their ideas that sparked the start
of their businesses. Joe Flock, a food
scientist and former Heinz employee,
spoke about his business ventures as well.
The Sustainable Enterprise Accelerator has
been actively working on promotional videos
for the NORTH COUNTRY BREWERYs
beer that will be sold in cans. Look foward
to these in the coming months as the
Brewery begins this new business venture.
The
Sustainable
Enterprise
Accelerator partnered with the
NORTH COUNTRY BREWERY
to provide five fellowship
opportunities
for
students
with proposals that involve
sustainability in some way and/
or sustainable entrepreneurship.
The Sustainable Enterprise Accelerator is
sponsoring the upcoming SLOW FOODS
meeting at La Famiglia with the theme of
Italian food. The meeting will be on November
11 at 6 p.m. Craig Cowan, an SRU alumnus
will also give a home brewing demonstration.

The Sustainable Enterprise Accelerator

helped to produce a wrap-around for
FRANK CAPELLIs new childrens show
People, Places, and Things. Capelli won two
regional Emmys for his show Capelli and
Company in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
The pilot was filmed at the WSRU TV Station
on Slippery Rock Universitys campus.
The Sustainable Enterprise
Accelerator is working with
VOLANT MILL to improve
the appearance of the Mill
and restore the water wheel.
The
Sustainable
Enterprise
Accelerator has distributed a
SUSTAINABILITY SURVEY for
Slippery Rock in Bloom to provide
an analysis on sustainability
within the Slippery Rock area.
The Sustainable Enterprise Accelerator is
sponsoring two upcoming events: BUY
ORGANIC, BUY LOCAL will be at the
Macoskey Center at 7 p.m. on November
11 presented by Bob McCafferty (North
Country Brewery), Greg Boulos (Blackberry
Meadows), and Eric Rifenberrick (Pine Run
Farm). The RISING ARTIST SHOWCASE in
ATS on November 7 at 7 p.m. and will display
artists and fashion designers. The event is
business casual, please no jeans or sweatpants.