[SustainableNC] University Dorms Energy Effeciency

[Sharron Rogers]

University and Community College Listers and Parents of College Bound Kids,
may want take notice and share with appropriate campus staff an opportunity
for educating dorm occupants in energy effeciency.
 
    Create Your Own ENERGY STAR Showcase Dorm Room

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On move-in day, many freshmen bring to their first dorm room both a desire
to help the environment and a supply of electronic equipment. When colleges
and universities work together with their students to build awareness of the
connection between electricity use and the environment it helps lower the
school's energy bills while preventing pollution.  

 

An ENERGY STAR Showcase Dorm Room provides a visible example of how students
can use energy wisely and put their environmental practices to use. To make
it easy for campuses across the country, the US Environmental Protection
Agency's ENERGY STAR program has created a step-by-step guide
<http://yosemite1.epa.gov/Estar/business.nsf/content/ShowcaseDormRoom.htm>
http://yosemite1.epa.gov/Estar/business.nsf/content/ShowcaseDormRoom.htm on
how to create your own Showcase Dorm Room. 

 

Last year, Tulane University unveiled the first of these Showcase Dorm

Rooms, featuring ENERGY STAR labeled 

Lighting

 <http://yosemite1.epa.gov/estar/consumers.nsf/content/homelighting.htm>
http://yosemite1.epa.gov/estar/consumers.nsf/content/homelighting.htm , 

 

Office equipment

 <http://yosemite1.epa.gov/estar/consumers.nsf/content/homeoffice.htm>
http://yosemite1.epa.gov/estar/consumers.nsf/content/homeoffice.htm, and 

 

Consumer electronics

 
<http://yosemite1.epa.gov/estar/consumers.nsf/content/consumerelectronics.ht
m>
http://yosemite1.epa.gov/estar/consumers.nsf/content/consumerelectronics.htm


 .  

 

Three sophomores resided in this two-bedroom suite.  Two others ran the
demonstration project as work-study positions. As part of their outreach
efforts, the students produced an online brochure
<http://green.tulane.edu/energysmart/EnergySmart.html>
http://green.tulane.edu/energysmart/EnergySmart.html and gave tours of the
room to faculty and staff.  Sponsors provided energy-efficient products and
additional promotion of the Room. 

 

At Tulane the students estimated that if every one of the 1,708 dorm rooms
used ENERGY STAR products, the university would save more than $200,000 over
the course of the school year and offset energy-related air pollution. 

 

In addition, the students planned a "Sleep Is Good" campaign to raise campus
awareness of ENERGY STAR's easy-to-use energy saving "EZ-Wizard" software
that enables computer monitor power management
<http://www.energystar.gov/powermanagement>
http://www.energystar.gov/powermanagement or sleep mode.  The students
distributed "Sleep Is Good" door hangers and created informational kits that
residential advisors could use to decorate their halls.  The materials
helped to raise awareness across campus about energy usage in students'
daily lives. 

 

If your school is interested in hosting its own Showcase Dorm Room, please
contact Melissa Payne, US EPA/ENERGY STAR National Manager, Education
Sector, at  <mailto:Payne.Melissa at epa.gov> Payne.Melissa at epa.gov , or
Michelle Salisbury, The Cadmus Group, Inc./ENERGY STAR Consultant, at
<mailto:msalisbury at cadmusgroup.com> msalisbury at cadmusgroup.com   or (617)
673-7153.

 

 

 
 
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