Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 83.26
Liaison Megan Litke
Submission Date Feb. 12, 2014
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STARS v1.2

American University
ER-2: Student Sustainability Outreach Campaign

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 5.00 / 5.00 Joshua Kaplan
Sustainability Outreach Specialist
Office of Sustainability
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Does the institution hold a campaign that meets the criteria for this credit?:
Yes

The name of the campaign(s):
Do It in the Dark & Kill-A-Watt Challenge

A brief description of the campaign(s):

From November 12, 2012 to November 30, 2012 residence halls, office buildings, classrooms, and laboratories competed to see who could reduce the most energy. Participants were encouraged to sign a pledge to save energy to increase their commitment. Energy savings were tracked with the building dashboard run by Lucid.


A brief description of the measured positive impact(s) of the campaign(s):

Our energy reductions summed to 138,509 kilowatt hours of electricity saved campus-wide, which is equivalent to 464,435 tons of carbon dioxide and $15,421 dollars.


The website URL where information about the sustainability outreach campaign(s) is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Tons of carbon saved was calculated using the EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalency Calculator: http://www.epa.gov/cleanenergy/energy


Tons of carbon saved was calculated using the EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalency Calculator: http://www.epa.gov/cleanenergy/energy

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