“End the Cycle”: Sustainable Laundry Campaign Goal: Educate residents about how they can adopt sustainable laundry habits.
Method: Laundry Tips Posters in all campus residence hall and family housing laundry rooms. Static-Cling Stickers on every washing machine to encourage the cold water setting to save energy. ANNUAL METRICS:
Residents
Laundry Rooms
Washing Therm Savings Machines
kWh Savings Lbs CO2 Avoided
$ Savings
Residential Halls
6730
47
168
7,770
1,920
105,500
$7,970
Family Housing TOTAL
2901
28
142
3,700
910
50,250
$3,790
9631
75
310
11,470
2830
155,750
$11,760
Achievements: Expansion to Cal Greek Community: Laundry Tips posters in 18 sorority & fraternity houses, 210 pre-implementation surveys, presentations at multiple meetings. Outreach to Campus Housing Residents: 125 preimplementation surveys for unit residents, bilingual online surveys for family housing.
By: Kimberly Lam, klam789@gmail.com Green Campus Program: greencampus.berkeley.edu
CACS 8th Annual Sustainability Summit 2011