From the 2010 Alliance to Save Energy Green Campus Energy Efficiency Summit – Greening the Campus, Building the Workforce

1. Campus Conservation Nationals

2. INTRODUCTION
• The first of an annually recurring energy and water reduction
competition among residence halls.
• The competition will run for three weeks, with winner in
multiple categories.
• National competition with local, state, regional, and self-
defined sub-competitions

3. Project Goals
• Build communities within campuses around resource conservation.
• Provide a context in which students teach themselves conservation
behaviors that they can employ in the home and workplace in the future.
• Utilize innovative solutions to educate students around energy and water
conservation and sustainability .
• Achieve measurable resource savings (kWh, gallons, GHGs)
• Enable students to develop leadership and community organizing skills.

4. Why Competitions
• On campuses activities in buildings account for most of the energy,
water and GHG emissions for colleges and universities (~90%)
• Upgrading infrastructure has been a focus, but changing the
behavior of building occupants is equally important.
• Research (Cialdini 1993) has shown that resource reduction
competitions in provide an important means of engaging,
educating, motivating and empowering students to conserve
resources and foster behavior change.

5. Competition Guidelines
• Participating campuses must commit by March 1, 2010.
• All campuses will use the same baseline, which will be a 3-week period immediately
before the competition takes place.
• Electricity and water reductions will be based on percentage reduction from a
baseline.
• Any given campus or residence hall will be able to compete in either electricity
competition, water competition or both.
• The resources will be measured in the following way:
– Electricity (kwh) will be monitored using whatever metering exists
– Water (gallons/hr) will be assessed in a fashion that is similar to electricity.
– Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions associated with electricity and water use
competitions will be measured but not used for the competition.

6. Signing Up
• In order to join, participants must commit to the following:
o Letter of Commitment
o Organize and promote competitions on their local campuses
o Participate in conference calls to discuss best practices.
o Submit data through a web form to CCN administrator.
o Provide information about energy efficiency on campus

14. Building Dashboard Example
http://buildingdashboard.com/clients/hamilton/
www.CompeteToReduce.org