University of California, Los Angeles
ER-2: Student Sustainability Outreach Campaign

All-Hill Halloween is an annual event in the UCLA residence halls where children from the community are given the opportunity to go Trick-or-Treating in the residence halls. This event provides a safe place for children to go Trick-or-Treating. In 2008, another goal of the event was to make it sustainable. Start and end dates of the campaign(s): October 2008 was when the sustainability component of the competition was established. The actual event began approximately 20 years ago. All-Hill Halloween: http://www.sustain.ucla.edu/news/article.asp?parentid=2592 The annual "Do It in the Dark" Energy Competition takes place for one month across all on-campus residential buildings. Students pledge to decrease their energy use and then compete with other buildings to have the lowest energy use. Students are given energy-saving tips, disseminated by Team Green, and are further motivated by the chance of winning prizes. Housing and Hospitality Services Energy Competition: http://www.sustain.ucla.edu/news/article.asp?parentid=6139

All-Hill Halloween: This competition helped residents gain first hand experience with sustainability. The competition also educated residents on how product choice and material use affect how sustainable their decoration designs are. Resident Assistants oversaw the Halloween decorating and encouraged residents to reuse materials as well as be conscious of the amount of material that was being used. Fourteen buildings participated in this competition and one floor from each building was awarded with the Most Sustainable Floor. Three floors won the overall sustainability award including the Most Creatively Sustainable Floor. The overall floor winners received pizza gift certificates. For only four of the fourteen buildings, the amount of paper that was saved in 2008 compared to 2007 was 500 pounds or the equivalent of 30,000 square feet. This program was featured on the local news. Housing and Hospitality Services Energy Competition: In the 2010 competition, over 1,500 students pledged to help reduce their residential hall's energy consumption by 10% and together an estimated 52,980 KWH of electricity was saved for the month of February. This is nearly double the 27,580 KWH of electricity savings from the Energy Competition in 2009, indicating growing student engagement.