| Overall Rating | Silver |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 54.05 |
| Liaison | Tony Gillund |
| Submission Date | March 23, 2023 |
Purdue University
EN-5: Outreach Campaign
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
4.00 / 4.00 |
Tony
Gillund Director of Sustainability Campus Planning, Architecture and Sustainability |
Has the institution held a sustainability-related outreach campaign during the previous three years that was directed at students and yielded measurable, positive results in advancing sustainability?:
Has the institution held a sustainability-related outreach campaign during the previous three years that was directed at employees and yielded measurable, positive results in advancing sustainability?:
Name of the campaign:
A brief description of the campaign:
Friday Night Lights is a volunteer program created to reduce energy waste from lights being left on over the weekend across campus. Volunteers (students and sometimes employees) spend an hour on Friday evenings going from room to room in campus buildings turning off lights. The campaign is also a subcommittee in the student organization Purdue Student Sustainability Committee.
A brief description of the measured positive impact(s) of the campaign:
In the first season beginning in October 2013, Friday Night Lights engaged over 242 volunteers over 8 weeks and turned off 15,320 light bulbs. Since then, over 1,900 volunteers have turned off over 149,624 lights to help conserve energy.
Name of the campaign (2nd campaign):
A brief description of the campaign (2nd campaign):
Since 2010, Purdue University has participated in Campus Race to Zero Waste, formerly called RecycleMania, an annual spring recycling competition among hundreds of universities across the United States and Canada. Students and employees engage in this friendly competition to increase recycling rates and reduce overall waste. On a weekly basis over the course of eight weeks, Purdue University reported the amount of recycling and trash collected. Reported numbers are used to rank participants in various categories, including per capita recycling rates, highest recycling rate as a percentage of total waste, and lowest amount of combined trash and recycling. In the past, Purdue has achieved higher rankings in various categories, including electronics recycling and Food Organics.
A brief description of the measured positive impact(s) of the campaign (2nd campaign):
The Campus Race to Zero Waste campaign helped create a friendly competition to encourage waste reduction in the campus area.
A brief description of other sustainability-related outreach campaigns:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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