Hello everyone!

We have one week left, it's time to kick into overdrive! Here are some reminders:

• Hosting short events like study hours are easy, require little set up, and allow you to inform a ton of residents about Eco-Olympics.
• There is a participation award this year. Even if your hall is doing so hot conserving energy, there is more than one way to win!
  • Post picture to our FB page, get people to sign up, hold events!
• SHIRTS! Shirts are a great way to advertise the competition at events. Let me know if you need yours!

Check out the results here: Right here!

Here is the current sign up standings:

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Let's make this year amazing! Attached our energy saving tips you can post around your hall. Just print them off and tape them up!

Cheers!

Jessica Mondello
Eco-Olympics | Director

Think Globally. Act Locally.

On the agenda at the ECBS SWATeam meeting:

1) Final review of Illini Lights Out (ILO) recommendation;

2) Scott Willenbrock visiting April 14 meeting;

3) Updates:

- iCAP Portal.  Work of Morgan and Chenxi Jiang;

- Earth Hour photo;

- Eco-Olympics;

- Green Lab Coordinator

4) SWATeam next meeting time and date:  April 13th, from 3:30 to 5 pm. 

Hello Eco-Olympic followers!

It's not too late to sign up! For those who have their team up and running, I highly encourage you all to meet before spring break begins. Once we get back, the competition is on! If you let me know the time and place, I can bring shirts to hand out.

Here is the count of participants signed up for each hall:

Remember that each person signed up gives your one point towards the participation price! Have some tabling events to get people interested!

Best,

Jessica Mondello
Eco-Olympics | Director

Think Globally. Act Locally.

It’s time for promoting and encouraging energy conservation in the halls through Eco-Olympics energy competition, we are displaying the coveted trophy in various locations around housing starting this week through the end of the competition. The grand prize, a catered banquet is secured and awaiting the winning hall!

New to this year’s competition!

1)      We are asking Chancellor Jones to be the signatory for the leadership certificates this year.

2)      We are also supporting a participation prize of $200-$500 for the hall with the most and best participation efforts, your thoughts on this and more on that in a minute.

3)      All Eco-Olympics meetings will be held at your individual hall, accommodating busy schedules and making it easier to attend.

4)      Housing is helping with marketing support for the competition and individual halls.

5)      We have been working with campus utilities to identify meters that are impacted by students and only recording energy usage from these meters to better gauge the teams efforts.

Is your hall competing? 
If you have not seen, flyers posted, group meetings held, plans for participation events or heard conversation about Eco-Olympics it is time to stir the pot and get your residents in contact with us.

• Committed Halls are: Allen, LAR, Busey-Evans, FAR, and ISR (Wardall)
• Halls that have expressed interest (someone signed up but has not followed up with email communication): Bousfield, Barton, Lundgren and Nugent

This leaves us with nine (9) buildings competing at various levels of effort, we are shooting for 12-15 buildings this year and would like your help in making this happen?

If your hall is not listed as “committed” help us get the word out by contacting us, we will make arrangements for a  presentation/recruiting opportunity and marketing materials to be distributed.

Your input is Greatly appreciated, this year we are measuring participation efforts and awarding a financial incentive (between $200-$500) to the hall with the highest level of participation. This will be measured by number of team member’s signup with Eco-Olympics from each hall, number of events held in the hall, and number of participants at each event, verified through organization representatives, and photos of the event.
What we would like from you is to let us know your thoughts on the idea of motivating participation with a $200-$500 incentive for your residents. This prize could be used for the students in any way they like, of course we would encourage it to be used for sustainability and energy conservation efforts, but that would not be mandatory.

We are looking forward to our best and biggest competition ever!

Thank  you 
Paul Foote

Think Globally. Act Locally.

At the ECBS SWATeam meeting this week, Sam Wilson, a grad student in Communication, presented his ongoing research efforts on fume hood behaviors, which will tie into the development of our Green Labs Initiative.  Big Picture Recommendation discussion continued as the team worked on making clear connections to iCAP 2015 in the document, which is set to be submitted by the end of next week.  The online Energy Dashboard has been updated, courtesy of Mike Marquissee.  Eco-Olympics results indicated competing buildlings across campus achieved up to a 10.6% reduction in energy usage (Lundgren Hall).  Grad student Anna Tanaglia presented the success of public speaking sections (CMN 101) that focused on campus sustainability; students seemed to enjoy these topics and some have expressed interest in getting more involved in campus sustainability efforts.  Claudia presented a social marketing campaign class project on student involvement in campus sustainability efforts, the findings of which may guide future campus engagement efforts.