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The Alliance to Save Energy’s Green Campus Program is currently in place on twelve California university campuses: Humboldt State, Sonoma State, CSU Chico, UC Berkeley, UC Merced, UC Santa Cruz, UC Santa Barbara, CSU San Bernardino, Cal Poly Pomona (in development), UC Irvine, UC San Diego, and San Diego State University.
Program Goals
- Design and implement student-led campaigns that result in measurable energy savings;
- Create effective and lasting student-staff partnerships that lead to systemic and sustainable energy efficiency;
- Foster environmental stewardship by raising campus awareness about the relationship between energy and the environment;
- Develop replicable energy education curriculum and integrate it into academic offerings.
Program Structure and Resources
- Green Campus interns work closely with administrators, faculty, and staff to create a strategic plan that addresses each of the program’s goals and is uniquely tailored to the needs, challenges, and strengths of their school.
- Green Campus is a student-driven program; each Green Campus school has funding for forty hours of intern time per week.
- The Alliance to Save Energy recruits, selects, and oversees between two and four interns per campus; with supervision from Alliance staff, and input from campus staff, these interns are primarily responsible for the day-to-day implementation of Green Campus at their school.
- The Alliance supports Green Campus interns through continuous remote consultation, regular on-campus visits, and bi- annual program-wide convergences.
- Interns at Green Campus schools have an operating budget that they use to secure space for events, incentivize student conservation, and purchase new metering equipment.
Program Rationale
- Educational campaigns can result in significant energy savings by changing behaviors and purchasing decisions.
- Students are effective advocates on college campus, able to reach their peers and high-level decision makers.
- Students can offer valuable assistance in greening campus operating procedures; student research can defer information gathering costs inherent in switching from conventional to more sustainable practices.
- Green Campus enriches students' educational experience while allowing them to take more responsibility for campus operations.
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