Green Rooms
How many residents have been certified in the halls?
Are you concerned about the sustainable practices of you dorm room? Are you interested in making the residence halls a more environmentally friendly and less wasteful place? Then you should sign up for the PowerSave Campus Green Rooms program! In case you were wondering, PowerSave Campus is a student internship organization that conducts projects around college campuses in order to make them more sustainable.
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Our newest program Green Rooms, is a sustainability auditing and certification program for your dorm room. A PowerSave intern will conduct and energy audit and behavioral interview of your room and calculate a score from our checklist. Once your score is calculated you will be given a rating out of 5 stars, which will then be placed on a door placard that will presented to you and your roommates that will serve as a certificate of your accomplishment as well as a notice to others of the degree of sustainability your room has.
In order to sign up for this program, one member of your room must volunteer to be the green delegate, this person will then fill out the registration link below with their names and room number. A mutual meeting time will be established (most likely during U-hour) at which time the intern team will perform the audit.
Lastly, here are some tips that you can do to help make your room more sustainable and thus help you get a higher score.
In order to sign up for this program, one member of your room must volunteer to be the green delegate, this person will then fill out the registration link below with their names and room number. A mutual meeting time will be established (most likely during U-hour) at which time the intern team will perform the audit.
Lastly, here are some tips that you can do to help make your room more sustainable and thus help you get a higher score.
- Replace all desk lamps with more efficient bulbs, such as LED or CFL
- Cut down on appliances and use Energy star rated ones if possible
- Use power strips
- Use your window and blinds instead of the thermostat
- Utilize the recycling bin
- Turn off computers when not in use and use the sleep mode function
- Wash your clothes on the cold setting
- Take shorter showers
- Utilize reusable dishes and silverware