[SustainableNC] Energy Star Dorm Room

[Shea, Cynthia Pollock (Sustainability Office)]

For those interested in increasing energy efficiency, the Energy Star Dorm
Room project at Tulane University provides a great model. Developed by
students, the campus environmental coordinator, and EPA, the dorm room has
been occupied and open for tours since the fall. A website was launched this
month to share the strategy and results. See http://green.tulane.edu  At UNC
Chapel Hill we are planning a model Sustainable Dorm Room and Sustainable
Office exhibit, complete with vendors, as part of our Earth Day activities.
I found that the Energy Star store locator website provided me with eight
Energy Star partner stores within 10 miles of campus.
http://www.energystar.gov/stores/storelocator.asp
We also plan to distribute information about environmentally preferable
products to next year's incoming students. 
If you have organized similar efforts, I would appreciate hearing about
them.

Cindy Pollock Shea
Sustainability Coordinator
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Voice: 919-843-5251
Fax:    919-843-4567

http://sustainability.unc.edu

Change is inevitable. It's the resistance to change that's optional.