| Overall Rating | Silver - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 46.81 |
| Liaison | Stephanie Del Rosario |
| Submission Date | Sept. 11, 2015 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
California State University, Fullerton
EN-5: Outreach Campaign
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
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2.00 / 4.00 |
Tamara
Wallace Sustainability Projects Coordinator Facilities Operations |
Has the institution held at least one sustainability-related outreach campaign directed at students within the previous three years that has yielded measurable, positive results in advancing sustainability?:
Has the institution held at least one sustainability-related outreach campaign directed at employees within the previous three years that has yielded measurable, positive results in advancing sustainability?:
The name of the campaign (1st campaign):
A brief description of the campaign (1st campaign):
Over the course of one (1) month, students collected plastic water bottles from the on-campus student residence halls. Building a display with the collected plastic bottles, the students demonstrated the amount of waste produced by their fellow students to advocate for a campus ban of plastic water bottles. Further, they were asking for water refill stations to be installed throughout the campus to promote use of reusable beverage containers.
The students demonstrated the plastic bottle display next to their "taste test" station of bottled water vs. tap water at the campus' 5th Annual Earth Week events.
A brief description of the measured positive impact(s) of the campaign (1st campaign):
Facilities Operations conducted an inventory of all drinking fountain locations and status of physical condition, to establish a priority retrofit list of units to be replaced with water bottle refill units.
Within the approximately 12 months since the refill station roll-out program, over 100,000 plastic water bottles have been reduced from reaching the landfill, which amounts to approximately 1.5 tons of plastic bottles.
The website URL where information about the campaign is available (1st campaign):
The name of the campaign (2nd campaign):
A brief description of the campaign (2nd campaign):
The "Brown is the New Green" student campaign was in response to the California Governor's call to reduce landscaping water by 20%. The ASI Committee on Environmental Sustainability initiated the campaign at the end of a long summer drought in the region. The Committee requested that landscaping irrigation be turned off around the Titan Student Union (TSU) and the Student Recreation Center (SRC) building footprints.
A brief description of the measured positive impact(s) of the campaign (2nd campaign):
The TSU and SRC "Brown is the New Green" student campaign had a measured impact of increased awareness of the recent drought, landscaping and irrigation campus water-reduction measures, and overall water resource awareness with both employees and students. As a part of this campaign, the Governor's Office released an Executive Order on April 1, 2015 mandating reduction of all water usage by approximately 20%, which the campus is incorporating into its water reduction strategies for 2015.
The website URL where information about the campaign is available (2nd campaign):
A brief description of other outreach campaigns, including measured positive impacts:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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