Every Junior Seminar in the Department of Environmental Science has as its main focus a project whose completion is important to some stakeholder outside the college. Sometimes the party waiting for the report being prepared by students enrolled in the seminar is mildly interested in the outcome, prepared to take into consideration the research and ideas of Allegheny's juniors. Other times--and this is one of those unusual occasions--the outside participant is anxiously awaiting the class' findings.
Your task, at least on the face of it, is rather simple. If your research and reports are professionally sound and of high enough quality you are likely to see the fruits of your labor around the time you graduate from Allegheny College.
Allegheny College wants Carr Hall to be green, but I'm not sure they are fully aware of what benefits a green building could bring the campus beyond the feel-good nature of what it can do for the ES department. That's what your job is. WHY build green? What does it mean for the ES Department? The Physics Department? The student body? Administration? Fund Raisers? Prospective students? Funders? Graduates? Visitors? Future buildings, maintenance and operations?
