Gustavus AdolphusCollege

National Campus Energy Challenge Planning Page

For more info, contact:

JeffJeremiason

KarenKatz

JamesDontje

Planning Outline

Timeline

Resources

Planning Outline

Focus Area	Goals	Organizer (help them out—they are just one person)	Possible activities (only just the beginning)
Number crunching	Guide conservation efforts with past experience and current data	Ethan Sommer	Look at experience in 2007 Energy Wars-what worked and what didn’t Look at current energy use patterns for clues
Tooting the horn	Encourage the entire GAC community to join the effort Tell the world what we are doing	Gwen Freed	Tabling, table tents, Weekly articles, web pages, community awareness events Kick-off event to publicize the GAC electricity monitoring web page Distribution of CFL bulbs
Rooting out the energy hogs (the buildings not the people)	Look at our biggest energy users (Campus Center and Lund) to see where the energy goes	James Dontje	Building walk through with facilities personnel and managers of programs housed in these buildings looking for energy use.
Turnin’ out the lights and checkin’ em twice	Active steps to stop energy waste during February (and beyond)	Breanna Draxler	Teams to make sure lights are off in unoccupied rooms and that windows and entry doors are secure. Assigning building monitors to keep track of progress.
Faculty support	Academic and administration buildings are responsible for 75% of energy use	Chuck Niederritter	Faculty discussion and focus on the topic. Faculty leaders in each classroom/office building

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Proposed Timeline

Date/Time	Activity	Location (if applicable)
14 Dec. 2007, 8 AM	Initial organizing meeting	Interpretive Center
14 Dec. 2007-2 Jan. 2008	Planning and preparation amidst holiday break festivities
3 Jan. 2008, 3 PM	Planning meeting-NOTES	Interpretive Center
2 Jan. -25 Jan. 2008 ??	Walk through of Lund (Jan. 8) and Campus Center
10 Jan., 2008, 4 PM	Planning Meeting	Campus Center
23 Jan. 2008, 3:30 PM	Planning meeting	Interpretive Center
30 31 Jan 2008, 4 PM	Public “unveiling” energy website and announcement of NCEC effort	Campus Center
5 Feb.	Baseline data submitted to NCEC
12 Feb. 2008, 4 PM?	NCEC kickoff and “hoopla” to welcome students back	Campus Center
Feb., 2008	Ongoing events—film series?, student teams checking buildings?, contests

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Resources

National Campus EnergyChallenge website

Gustavus Adolphus College electricity usewebsite

See also historical records

PastGustavus February energy use*

EnergyWars 2006 energy results summary*

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*The number of daysduring the 2007 February billing period in these spreadsheets may be incorrect.