| Overall Rating | Silver - expired |
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| Overall Score | 53.74 |
| Liaison | Stephen Ellis |
| Submission Date | March 1, 2016 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
Boston University
EN-5: Outreach Campaign
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
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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?:
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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?:
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The name of the campaign (1st campaign):
Join the Challenge
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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 the carbon footprint metrics, calculates per-capita totals for each school or college’s CO2 reductions, and determines the winner.
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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 16,504 participants in the BU community in behavioral change activities. The campaign is open to all members of the community who can 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 371.4 tons. (updated 09/15/15)
http://www.carbonrally.com/leagues/boston-university
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