Get faculty, staff, and administration involved

Get the faculty from your school involved in NCEC by encouraging them to talk to their classes about it. Get the cooperation of the administrative and custodial staff to inform the student body about energy usage on campus. If possible, get academic departments and/or the school to sponsor awareness events and/or speakers. The National Campus Energy Challenge is a whole-campus initiative. You can do a lot with just students, but the real potential for the NCEC will be realized by engaging all members of your campus community and by collaborating with other colleges.

 

• Ask professors to tell their class about NCEC and the associated youth climate movement - most of them will love the fact that young people are finally starting to be more proactive...
• Encourage science departments to ensure that ventilation systems are only used when necessary.
• Working with technological services on saving energy in tech support systems.
• Work with facilities management to turn down heating as much as possible.
• Work with facilities/ upper administration to finance cost-effective electrical efficiency or weatherization projects. See http://www.aashe.org/resources/pdf/CERF.pdf.
• Propose class projects or work-study positions to research and implement energy-saving practices.
• Work with departments to save energy in offices and classrooms.
• Identify supporters across campus whom you can inform about ways to save energy in their own departments.
• Find ways to use natural light and heat in campus buildings.