CACS 9 th Annual Sustainability Summit 2012 Sustainable Laundry Campaign: “End the Cycle” Update Goal: Educate residents about how they can adopt sustainable laundry habits. Method: Laundry Tips Posters in all laundry rooms. Static-Cling Stickers on every washing machine to encourage the cold water setting to save energy. Tabling in Dining Halls to collect pre- and post- implementation surveys, and publicize the campaign with giveaways and activities. Achievements: Outreach to Families & Graduate Students: We sent out pre- implementation surveys to 1,200+ family and graduate housing residents and received 342 completed responses! Collecting & Analyzing Results: Preliminary results show that over 85% of family housing survey respondents have seen the Laundry Tips posters, and almost 60% considered washing with cold water after seeing our campaign! By: Kimberly Lam, [email protected] Sara Seacat, [email protected] Green Campus Program: greencampus.berkeley.edu COMPLETED: Posters Stickers Unit 1 14 36 Unit 2 14 36 Unit 3 5 18 Foothill, Stern, Bowles 6 30 Clark Kerr 8 23 University Village 28 139 Smyth-Fernwald 4 13 Other Graduate Housing 7 23 International House 3 10 Sororities & Fraternities 12 24 TOTAL: 101 352 Freshmen from Clark Kerr Residence Hall fill out a brief pre- implementation survey about their laundry habits and washing machine setting preferences. After project implementation, laundry rooms include static-cling stickers and a Sustainable Laundry Tips poster. Unit 3 residents proudly display their cold water detergent samples and giveaways, donated by Berkeley’s Vaska Herbatergent Co. Finished posting stickers and posters: We reached all campus- owned laundry rooms plus Greek houses. Support & Donations from WEB Laundry: The laundry machine contract company heard about our project and donated $100 in laundry gift cards and an iPod Nano as survey raffle prizes!
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CACS 9th Annual Sustainability Summit 2012
Sustainable Laundry Campaign: “End the Cycle” Update
Goal: Educate residents about how they can adopt sustainable laundry habits.
Method: Laundry Tips Posters in all laundry rooms. Static-Cling Stickers on every washing machine to encourage the cold water setting to save energy. Tabling in Dining Halls to collect pre- and post- implementation surveys, and publicize the campaign with giveaways and activities.
Achievements: Outreach to Families & Graduate Students: We sent out pre-implementation surveys to 1,200+ family and graduate housing residents and received 342 completed responses!
Collecting & Analyzing Results: Preliminary results show that over 85% of family housing survey respondents have seen the Laundry Tips posters, and almost 60% considered washing with cold water after seeing our campaign!
By: Kimberly Lam, [email protected] Sara Seacat, [email protected]
Green Campus Program: greencampus.berkeley.edu
COMPLETED: Posters Stickers
Unit 1 14 36
Unit 2 14 36
Unit 3 5 18
Foothill, Stern, Bowles 6 30
Clark Kerr 8 23
University Village 28 139
Smyth-Fernwald 4 13
Other Graduate Housing 7 23
International House 3 10
Sororities & Fraternities 12 24
TOTAL: 101 352
Freshmen from Clark Kerr Residence Hall fill out a brief pre-implementation survey about their laundry habits and washing machine setting preferences.
After project implementation, laundry rooms include static-cling stickers and a Sustainable Laundry Tips poster.
Unit 3 residents proudly display their cold water detergent samples and giveaways, donated by Berkeley’s Vaska Herbatergent Co.
Finished posting stickers and posters: We reached all campus-owned laundry rooms plus Greek houses.
Support & Donations from WEB Laundry: The laundry machine contract company heard about our project and donated $100 in laundry gift cards and an iPod Nano as survey raffle prizes!
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