uc merced green campus february 2012 newsletter

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U C M e r c e d

FEBRUARY 20

UC MERCED

1st National Water & Energy Conservation Competition

February 6th- 26th ; Valley Terraces

Last year UC Merced introduced the first water competition monitoredwirelessly and in real time with a new product by AquaCue. AquaCue is a startup company in the Silicon Valley that has developed a real time watermanagement product where the customer can access their water usagewirelessly via a computer or mobile devices. UC Merced, in partnership with

AquaCue, developed a dashboard that displayed the water usage data in a waystudents could understand their impact. With a 14% reduction rate and saving about 90,000 gallons of waterfrom last fall’s competition, UC Merced’s Green Campus Program decided tocontinue challenging students by participating in the 2012 Campus ConservatioNationals. UC Merced will participate in the Campus Conservation Nationals

starting February 6, 2012- February 26, 2012. The Campus ConservationNationals is a nationwide electricity and water reduction competition on collegeand university campuses. Participating Campuses will compete betweenFebruary 6 and April 23rd 2012, striving to achieve a national challenge goal of 1gigawatt-hour. Using Lucid’s Building Dashboard schools will be able to instantlycompare performance and keep track of current competition standings. This isthe first year the UC Merced will compete. Students will be challenged to savewater and energy in their dorms for 20 days. Green Campus, in partnership withHousing, have begun planning and promotion for this competition. The winningdorm for this year’s national competition will receive a free pizza party, freecanteens and giftcards. UC Merced’s Green Campus goal is to have a 15%

reduction rate in 20 days and outreached to over 700 students. To kick off thecompetition interns will be tabling in the Bobcat Cat Quad, where the GreenCampus Interns will have their bike blender giving students free milkshakes.

UC MERCED NATIONAL CONSERVATION COMPETITION

By: Martin Figueroa

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I’m Jared Calinisan, a new intern for the Green Campus Program at UC Merced. I am a juniormajoring in Management and minoring in Service Science. I have been involved in other programs thateducate people about energy efficiency, recycling, water conservation and other ways to be moresustainable. I believe that it is important to conserve Earth’s natural resources, be conscious of ourimpacts and to be considerate about future generations. I look forward to promoting sustainability andcreating projects that will get students involved and educated on how to become how to be greener.Hopefully, these projects will instill sustainable habits and inspire students to promote and spreadawareness themselves.

Welcome New Interns!

My name is Vanessa Estavillo, and I am a sophomore at the University of California, Merced. Afterpursuing a degree in Management from the University of California, Merced, with a minor in ProfessionalWriting, I plan to work with sustainable business to further promote technology which reduces energyusage. I am so glad to now be a part of Green Campus, which I hope will serve as a practical means toeducating the public about the true meaning of sustainable living.

As a “management major with a minor in writing”, as I am normally introduced, one might notbelieve my extensive work with sustainability. Being “green” and promoting sustainable behavior hasalways been important to me. I'm thoroughly excited to be part of the Green Campus program. One of my goals this semester is to make Green Campus at UCM a better and more interactive channel for the

student body. For instance, I would love to publish a research paper regarding sustainability in ournewsletters and have that newsletter broadcasted to students who attend our events. In addition, I feelthat student outreach is an important means of accomplishing our goals. We attend a sustainable schoolwith LEED certified buildings and yet very few of our students understand what it really means. With thehelp of my fellow interns, I know we can educate our campus to be sustainable, one student at a time.

Vanessa Estavillo

PR Intern

Jared Calinisian

PR Intern

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Professor John Haner is this month’s stakeholder spotlight! John

is a faculty member of the Merritt Writing Program at UC Merced. Hehas been involved in numerous Green Campus projects, generatingacademic infusion by involving his professional writing students inEnergy Efficiency, Water Conservation and Green Workforce Projects.John has assisted in the organization and execution of many projectsby generating marketing materials and developing new channels foradvertising and outreach. John Haner has also work closely withGreen Campus Interns when composing proposals and awardsapplications to successful projects. The Green Campus Team wouldlike to thank him for his continuos support and help!

John Haner

Greetings! A new year calls for new changes and new projects. The UC

Merced Green Campus team has many new plans and ideas for this semester.Our first project is the National Conservation Competition, a water and energycompetition. The 9 Valley Terraces are going national and will be competingagainst other campuses from all over the states. With a 14% reduction rate inwater usage from the water battle and another 6% the month after thecompetition, UC Merced has proven it will be a fierce competitor. Look out for the

team, as we will be announcing the date of the competition and how Merced isholding up with the other contenders. Another project that the Green Campus team will be working on is theCastle Air audit. The labs at the Castle Air museum will have a lot of potentialsavings since the museum was built in the 1940’s. A simple task such asswitching out an older lamp, an incandescent, with a newer lamp, a CFL, willmake the building more efficient. If possible, after the audit the team will also liketo retrofit the labs and museum. The team will also like to involve more parts of the campus. We areworking on a water and energy competition, which will also include the freshmendorms. Freshmen will now have a shot at the title as UC Merced’s energy saver.We will also be going Greek and will launch a competition between thefraternities and sororities to see who can acquire the most amounts of pledges.

The team is excited about working with everyone this semester towards agreener campus. We all have the power to save!

New Year! New Projects!

By: Dao Vang

Stakeholder Spotlight

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CONTACT THE TEAM

CHECK US OUT:

Website:www.ucmgreencampus.com

Email:[email protected]

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/pages/

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Martin Figueroa | Team Manager | Metrics [email protected]

Dao Vang | [email protected]

Vanessa Estavillo | [email protected]

Jared Calinisian | PR [email protected]

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