Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 52.28
Liaison Stephen Ellis
Submission Date Nov. 25, 2014
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.0

Boston University
EN-5: Outreach Campaign

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 4.00 / 4.00 Dennis Carlberg
Associate Vice President for Sustainability
BU Sustainability
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Has the institution held at least one sustainability-related outreach campaign directed at students within the previous three years that has yielded measurable, positive results in advancing sustainability?:
Yes

Has the institution held at least one sustainability-related outreach campaign directed at employees within the previous three years that has yielded measurable, positive results in advancing sustainability?:
Yes

The name of the campaign (1st campaign):
Join the Challenge

A brief description of the campaign (1st campaign):

Boston University created “Join the Challenge” to engage all students, faculty, staff, and alumni in a competition to reduce their environmental footprints. Join the Challenge is a friendly competition among the schools and colleges on campus through carbonrally.com, which provides monthly carbon footprint metrics and per-capita totals for each school or college’s CO2 reductions and determines a winner. Scoring is done at the end of each month and the school or college that reduces its carbon footprint the most for that month wins a prize that relates to that month's challenge.


A brief description of the measured positive impact(s) of the campaign (1st campaign):

Through "Join the Challenge" we have been able to engage over 13408 participants in the BU community in behavioral change activities. The campaign is open to all members of the community who are able to accept as many challenges as they want in order to reduce their carbon footprint. Since BU launched Join the Challenge in 2010, carbonrally estimates that collectively through our sustainable actions, we have reduced our CO2 emissions by 167.26 tons. (updated 04/10/14)

http://www.carbonrally.com/leagues/boston-university


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