Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 60.54
Liaison Sarah Fortner
Submission Date March 6, 2020
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STARS v2.1

Carleton College
EN-5: Outreach Campaign

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 4.00 / 4.00 Alexandra Miller
Sustainability Program Coordinator
Energy and Sustainability
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Has the institution held at least one sustainability-related outreach campaign during the previous three years that was directed at students and yielded measurable, positive results in advancing sustainability? :
Yes

Has the institution held at least one sustainability-related outreach campaign during the previous three years that was directed at employees and yielded measurable, positive results in advancing sustainability?:
Yes

1st Campaign 

Name of the campaign:
Climate Action Week

A brief description of the campaign, including how students and/or employees were engaged:
Climate Action Week is a series of sustainability awareness and education events including environmentally-related movie screenings, speakers, contests and panel discussions on internal or external sustainable initiatives. The week also incorporates a no impact competition aimed at developing habits to reducing consumption and waste.

A brief description of the measured positive impact(s) of the campaign:
We developed a weigh in system for students to come with their trash that they create over the two week period. There are multiple weigh-ins and we are able to see how the waste changes during the competition and look back at previous years.

The website URL where information about the campaign is available:

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2nd Campaign

Name of the campaign (2nd campaign):
Bike to Work Week

A brief description of the campaign, including how students and/or employees were engaged (2nd campaign):
Bike to Work Week was created in 2016 to encourage faculty and staff to bike to work when the weather starts to warm up and to reduce commuting emissions. Faculty and staff will have the opportunity to sign up and participate, logging their trips and mileage throughout the week. Individuals with the most enthusiasm and dedication will be recognized, and everyone will receive fun goodies for participating with the opportunity to win raffle prizes!

A brief description of the measured positive impact(s) of the campaign (2nd campaign):
We conduct a pre and post survey of the participants to gather information like total commute distance, a goal for biking this week, something they would like more information about, how many days they ended up biking and what challenged them (post-survey).

The website URL where information about the campaign is available (2nd campaign):

Optional Fields 

A brief description of other sustainability-related outreach campaigns, including measured positive impacts:
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The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
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