| Overall Rating | Silver - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 46.98 |
| Liaison | Joanne Wong |
| Submission Date | Feb. 27, 2015 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
Mills College
EN-5: Outreach Campaign
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
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4.00 / 4.00 |
Britta
Bullard Sustainability Coordinator Campus Facilities |
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?:
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?:
The name of the campaign (1st campaign):
A brief description of the campaign (1st campaign):
Mills College partnered with a company called I'm in Control, focused on metering and monitoring small-scale commercial buildings. To pilot the technology and ability to find unusual electricity activity at the building level, we installed the metering system in the two first-year student residence halls. Over a three week period, we held an energy competition between the halls and posted daily energy graphs to engage the student population. Overall, there was a positive engagement level with students going above and beyond to reduce energy, as well as realizing an overall electricity savings.
A brief description of the measured positive impact(s) of the campaign (1st campaign):
Calculating the exact kWh of electricity savings is tricky, as the competition was held in the fall during the shift of warm weather to colder weather, as well as daylight savings. However, in comparing the electricity usage at the beginning of the competition vs the end, we can clearly see a reduction in usage as well as a lower increase than anticipated with the shifting season.
The website URL where information about the campaign is available (1st campaign):
The name of the campaign (2nd campaign):
A brief description of the campaign (2nd campaign):
Mills College steps up to the plate for RecycleMania! The entire campus is engaged through kick-off events, sorting games, and a daily trivia contest with prizes. Especially for the trivia contest, campus community members come from all over campus to email in trivia answers and get prizes. The Sustainability Coordinator also makes daily announcements on the daily email digest and Sustainability Center Facebook to keep the whole campus informed and engaged.
Another huge component of the competition is the RecycleMania Residence Hall Competition. Six traditional residence halls go head to head in the competition to win most recycling per capita and most compost per capita. The winning hall for each category wins an ice cream party for the whole hall. Eco-Reps and a student group from the Introduction to Environmental Science class go from hall to hall each morning and weigh the recycling and compost in each trash room. They then make the calculation and report out to the campus, that same morning. At the end of three weeks, whichever halls recycle and compost the most per person wins.
A brief description of the measured positive impact(s) of the campaign (2nd campaign):
Recycling and composting increase campus-wide during this time period. Overall, the trainings also help decrease contamination campus-wide. It is also helpful to get residential students to clean out their room early in the semester, so more is diverted from the landfill during move-out (with the possibility that more will be wasted during the rush). It has also helped with large events on campus, more events are implementing recovery and diversion practices because more constituents are knowledgeable about the campus goal of Zero Waste.
The website URL where information about the campaign is available (2nd campaign):
A brief description of other outreach campaigns, including measured positive impacts:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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