Campus Conservation Nationals aims to engage, educate, motivate, and empower students to conserve electricity and water in their residences

Agenda

1. Introductions (5 minutes) - Organizing team - Workshop participants

2. Research review (5 minutes) 3. 2010 Results review (2 minutes) 4.CCN 2011/12 Structural Overview (10

minutes)5.Discussion tables (20 minutes)6.Discussion tables feedback (10 minutes)7.Next steps overview (5 minutes)

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1. Competition engaged & motivate students; conservation was significant

2. Motivations & perceived benefits of conservation occur at different scales- Environmental motivation is skewed towards global and future concerns- Social motivations are more local- Competition links local and global motivations

3. Students feel higher degree of motivation than empowerment- Need to help students understand what they control that matters- Need to provide students with control

4. CCN website use was correlated with reductions- Social diffusion important (only 19% visited regularly)

5. Competition has potential to reach beyond the choir -The intrinsically motivated (high CNS) are least affected by competition - CCN may be most effective at engaging those least connected to nature

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Rules of Engagement

Dates: February 6th through April 23rd, 2012

Structure: Competition window

Competition Period: 3-week competition during the window

Buildings: Residence halls only, as many as you choose

Baseline: You choose, we recommend previous 2 weeks

Cost: Free

Sign up deadline: November 1st, 2011!

Schools can choose to compete in different categories

• Residence hall vs. residence hall • Regional • Peer group competition

All Savings entered into the National Gigawatt Challenge!

Participants will use Building Dashboard to track consumption and competition rank, and communicate with occupants and organizers

Reading meters manually versus utilizing an energy management system

Discussion Tables Building a coalition on your campus – (ACE) 1. How do you as a local organizer empower students to take ownership over the competition?2. How do you localize the competition for your campus making CCN campus specific?3. How do we get commitments from campuses to participate? What can we use to stress test schools to see if they are prepared to participate? (Letter of Commitment)

Outreach and Marketing – (USGBC)1. What are the best strategies to make sure that the students both know and are excited about participating in CCN? (Press releases, social marketing, guerrilla marketing, commitments etc). 2. What are the most effective ways to use the web platform/Dashboard to engage students? 3. What groups/dpts on campus should be involved and how? How best to engage those groups?

Leveraging CCN to further campus sustainability goals – (NWF)1. How can you leverage CCN to further other campus and educational goals (ACUPCC, STARs,) 2. How can we use CCN to develop long term environmental leadership among student organizers? 3. What educational and curricular goals should we incorporate into CCN?   Structural questions- What would the most effective method for communication during the organizing process (List serve, webinars, etc)? - How long do you want to have the competition for? Should we require competitions to be three weeks within the window, or let people compete for longer/shorter if desired?- What areas/topics do you think would be valuable for further discussion? - What resources do you think you need to be successful?

Next Steps1. Identify coalition representative on campus 2. Next week have them sign up online with the complete details

- number of buildings- resources - time frame- competition category

3. Download a Letter of Support and have it signed by different parties

4. Sign up deadline is November 1st 5. Download a press release and get the word out6. Dashboards distributed December 1st

7. Come to training webinars scheduled throughout the fall

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