Super Zero | Carbon Zero House | Mission Zero | CU Boulder | Climate Change
Mindy Zarske's GEEN 2400 engineering students at the University of Colorado Boulder are working on climate solutions with funding support from Mission Zero.
The Super Zero team from CU's Fall 2021 GEEN 2400 course developed a model home to help people relate their home to the power it consumes. It gives the user the ability to control the energy and see what it means to be carbon zero. As the team developed this model they realized that solving climate change is accessible and does come from everybody making small improvements to their daily energy consumption. Their model shows that small changes to your home can make a big impact in reducing your carbon footprint.
Building or upgrading to carbon zero isn't more expensive, it isn't some faraway goal, it's possible now. Converting homes to carbon zero will help curb climate change by reducing our dependence on the fossil fuels that produce greenhouse gas emissions.
Engineering course working on the Super Zero model: colorado.edu/eplus/courses/geen-2400-engineering-projects-community
More about Mission Zero: missionzero.io