Aside from touring the incredible systems The Wild Center uses, Sustainable Synergy used the time and facilities for a planning/strategy session. The members that were able to attend performed a sort of gap analysis of the club. They set out a plan for wrapping up current projects by the end of the semester and began to outline projects to begin in 2010. There was a consensus that the club needs to focus on larger scale projects if they hope to achieve lower levels of energy consumption and higher levels of renewable energy production on campus. These projects will include multidisciplinary audits of targeted buildings and processes on campus to find areas of improvement. The group will also begin fostering relationships with other institutions to broaden the perspective on issues they are facing at “home”.

Also, the group wishes to thank Jerry Hacker who is a board member at The Wild Center. He assisted in securing the group access to the facilities as well as spending time with the group to help develop projects.

Stay tuned for pictures from the visit to The Wild Center coming later this week.