| Overall Rating | Gold - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 67.29 |
| Liaison | Jennifer Andrews |
| Submission Date | Aug. 2, 2011 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
University of New Hampshire
ER-2: Student Sustainability Outreach Campaign
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
5.00 / 5.00 |
Sara
McKinstry Associate Director Sustainability Institute at UNH |
Does the institution hold a campaign that meets the criteria for this credit?:
The name of the campaign(s):
A brief description of the campaign(s):
Run by the UNH student group the Ecological Advocates, the Challenge is an energy use reduction competition held on the UNH Durham campus every fall semester! The major goal is to engage students living on campus in activities that reduce their ecological footprints - in particular, energy use. Students compete as a residence hall or apartment complex to reduce their per capita energy and water consumption compared to their building’s average usage from the past three years.
A brief description of the measured positive impact(s) of the campaign(s):
Area 2, which includes Alexander, Devine, Engelhardt, Fairchild, Gibbs, Hetzel, Hitchcock, Hunter, Mills and Randall Halls, won the 2009 Energy Waste Watch Challenge. Students in Area 2 used 30 kilowatt hours less energy per person during the month of October than the next ranked area. This comes out to 60,000 kilowatt hours of savings for all of Area 2 which is equivalent to 43 metric tons of CO2 or 100 barrels of oil. Within Area 2, Hetzel Hall had the lowest energy usage over the course of the competition.
The website URL for the campaign:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
UNH has many other sustainability student outreach campaigns, from "Take Back the Tap" on bottled water (in collaboration with Food and Water Watch) to RecycleMania to campaigns around sustainable food, Fair Trade, human rights, and more.
UNH has many other sustainability student outreach campaigns, from "Take Back the Tap" on bottled water (in collaboration with Food and Water Watch) to RecycleMania to campaigns around sustainable food, Fair Trade, human rights, and more.
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