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Re: Job Title / Team Title Ideas Please!
2010-04-13 11:11:21 UTC
Waste is a human concept.
Zed Langston
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Re: University Energy Efficiency
2010-03-16 12:45:30 UTC
Hello, Barbara,
We have implemented our CBSM strategy starting by "1) Id barriers/benefits 2) Strategy using CBSM tools (Commitment, prompts, effective communication, norms)
3) Pilot 4) Evaluation. We have not completed 5) Community implementation or 6) The final report Getting the word out)." We have had success and failure so far. Our project covered 3 areas (rooms). In one of the rooms, we did not have administrative support. I forgot to lay the foundation for sustainability ahead of time and as a result was not able to go any further at this time. In another lab area (GIS), we were able to place prompts and let people know what we were doing. So far it has been very successful, however it has only been a week. There was an increase in participation by 40% in the first couple of days. Yesterday the monitors for stations not being used were all off (rare) in the areas where the prompts (4" x 5.5") were placed. The prompts were very visible and stated: Please Remember Shut Off Your Monitor. Thank You! placed about 46"-50" AFF, a little above the standard work plane height above the monitors, so that when people got up they would see the signs as they were standing up. We decided not to use incentives mostly because of our limited financial resources. We did a survey to try to uncover perceptions/attitudes and figure out more about our audience. At this point we will keep evaluating and "monitor monitoring," revise and get input/feedback until we are sure that we have a significant behavior change and our strategy is effective. We estimated about a $10-$20 dollar savings per room per year. Lane Community College has hundreds of rooms and computers, this could be significant. With computers that would be switched on/off more than seven times a day, we will adjust sleep setting to three minutes. Research suggests that if a monitor is not used for more than ten minutes they should be turned off. Turning off less than ten times a day will save money and not shorten the lifespan of the equipment. This was an interesting project and very important as computers are one of the fastest growing electricity users. Thank you for sharing your strategy with me. I really appreciate it.
Zed Langston
Lane Community College
Eugene, Oregon
Zed Langston
United States -
University Energy Efficiency
2010-03-06 14:15:01 UTC
I am working with a small group to implement our first CBSM program for Lane Community College in Eugene, OR. Our goal behavior is for students to go above and beyond the sleep setting and to turn off the monitors when they are done with computers. I would like to know if anyone has any advice from other similar projects. We would also like to know of any barriers that were encountered. We are planning on using prompts to remind students and would like to incorporate other tools (e.g., commitment) as well. Thank you.
Zed Langston
United States
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