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Gazette opinion: Bright ideas: Take students’ smart energy advice

January 8, 2013 /

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The MDT Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Program encourages and supports the participation of companies owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals in transportation contracts.

University students are teaching Montana valuable lessons about spending money wisely and efficiently.

The Smart Building Initiative of student governments at Montana State University and the University of Montana calls for the entire University System to adopt energy-saving, high-performance building standards for all new construction and major renovations.

UM and MSU student body presidents gave updates on the initiative to the Board of Regents in May and again in November. In the course of their study, the students learned that the Montana Legislature in 2009 already directed that all state agencies set high-performance building standards. However, that directive has yet to be fulfilled.

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