Energy Efficiency and Sustainability Efforts of UCLA
Starts with a C
Green Labs
90s
100
A department within the U.S. government that employs professions in its Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy?
What is the Department of Energy?
100
This action plan provides the roadmap for meeting the UC policy of attaining 1990 carbon emission levels by 2020.
What is the Climate Action Plan?
100
This type of outdoor lightbulb is preferred to mitigate Light pollution as it shines light directly down. It reduces misdirected lighting into neighbouring homes.
What are CFLs?
100
Consume 5x more energy than a typical office space.
What are laboratories?
100
R.L. Stine is known for this series of children's horror fictional novel.
What is the "Goosebumps"?
200
A major from this UCLA school enables one to find both technical and non-technical careers in the energy field.
What is Henry Samueli School of Engineering?
200
This UCLA initiative is focused on helping the Los Angeles region by relying exclusively on renewable energy and local water by 2050.
What is the Grand Challenge Initiative?
200
This metal when layered under pots and pans heat more efficiently when cooking on the stove.
What is copper?
200
This resource, used to clean equipment, can be used inefficiently in the lab.
What is water?
200
Japanese Digital Monsters
What is digimon?
300
This sector of the energy industry accounted for 2.7 million U.S. jobs in 2010.
What is energy efficiency & renewable energy?
300
This UCLA Institute generates research and academic progress regarding energy efficiency and sustainability.
What is the Institute of the Environmental and Sustainability?
300
If these structures are vacuumed, less energy is used to power the ventilation system.
What are coils?
300
This lab appliance, chock full of old DNA samples, uses as much energy as a house each day?
What is a deep freezer?
300
Playing for Chicago Bulls, this basketball player won 6 titles.
Who is Michael Jordan?
400
This provider of natural gas to the Southern California region offers internships in both engineering and accounting/finance.
What is the Southern California Gas Company?
400
All new UCLA buildings are required to be certified with this award, which certify that the building uses less energy and water, and generates less waste.
What is LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Certification?
400
For efficient use, runs this device counterclockwise in the warm summer and clockwise in the winter in order to produce an updraft of warm air below the ceiling.
What is a ceiling fan?
400
It is not uncommon for air in the lab to be exchanged 10-20 times per hour, thanks to this device .
What is a fumehood?
400
A nickelodeon show that features a nomadic family documenting wildlife, and a daughter that has a secret gift to communicate with animals.
What is the Wild Thornberrys?
500
2.2% of jobs in this region of the United States are related to energy efficiency and clean energy.
What is the West Coast?
500
All new UCLA buildings are required to be certified with this award, which certify that the building uses less energy and water, and generates less waste.
What is Clean Energy for Green Industry?
500
Creates distance and enlarges the impression of space. It can also trick the mine to reduce the temperature of a person by 3 degree celsius.
What are cold colors?
500
This piece of lab equipment can use up to 2500 gallons of water per day.
What is an autoclave?
500
This musical artist had the number one selling album of the 90s, titled Come on Over.