Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 68.39
Liaison Sam Lubow
Submission Date June 29, 2012
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STARS v1.2

Stanford University
ER-2: Student Sustainability Outreach Campaign

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 5.00 / 5.00 Jiffy Vermylen
Sustainability Coordinator
Sustainability & Energy Management / 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):
(1) RecycleMania & (2) Conservation Cup

A brief description of the campaign(s):

(1) RECYCLEMANIA
http://sustainable.stanford.edu/be_cardinal_green_recyclemania
Recyclemania is a national 8-week intercollegiate competition and benchmarking tool for higher education recycling programs. Each year during RecycleMania, Stanford reports recycling and trash tonnage and attempts to surpass other schools in categories such as total tons recycled, waste diversion rate, waste minimization, and per capita recycling. All members of the campus community are encouraged to participate and evaluate their own waste and recycling habits during this annual competition.

(2) CONSERVATION CUP
http://glc.stanford.edu/conservationabout
Stanford hosts an annual Conservation Cup, a month-long competition between student dorms to see which residences can achieve the greatest energy and water savings. Weekly challenges and web pledges help keep up the student momentum.

(3) CARDINAL GREEN CAMPAIGNS
http://sustainable.stanford.edu/be_cardinal_green
In addition to RecycleMania, there are many other campus-wide Cardinal Green campaigns in which students are encouraged to participate.


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

(1) RECYCLEMANIA
During Recyclemania, Stanford judges success based upon both competition ranking relative to peer institutions and also absolute improvements in the different waste and recycling categories. In 2011, Stanford achieved a personal best in seven out of eight categories during RecycleMania. All results from Stanford’s past five years of participation are available online (http://sustainable.stanford.edu/be_cardinal_green_recyclemania).

(2) CONSERVATION CUP
The Conservation Cup carefully monitors energy and water use in each campus dorm and compares it to energy and water consumption during the previous year. Residences are recognized when they reduce energy and water consumption by more than 5% from the previous year. Dorms that lower consumption by more than 10% receive special recognition. In 2011, one dorm achieved greater than 10% reduction and six achieved greater than 5% reduction.


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