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Welcome to the

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Official Campus Carbon Challenge Website!

What is the Campus Carbon Challenge?

In February, 2008 the Student Sustainability Initiative and grant recipient Carly Johnson will invite hundreds of students, faculty and staff at OSU to participate in this month-long event via an online survey and various on-campus events. Participants will pledge to make a few simple changes in their lives throughout the month and their progress will be tracked. The goal of the Challenge is to demonstrate how easy it is to reduce your personal carbon footprint with small, managable changes.

A few examples of some of the pledges participants can take include:

  • Using compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs)
  • Stopping junk mail
  • Switching to online bill pay
  • Buying local food
  • Weatherizing your home
  • Properly inflating your tires
  • Biking or walking to school
  • Reusing before recycling
  • Breaking the water bottle habit
  • Spreading the word.

 

How low can you go?

How to participate:

January 1st: Sign up for the Challenge listserve here! You will recieve more information about the survey over the next month.

February 1st: Take the first Challenge survey and choose your emission-reducing actions

Throughout February: Reduce your carbon emissions!

February 29th: Take the second Challenge survey and tell us about your experience!

 

Printable information about the Campus Carbon Challenge can be found here.