Vote for Phantom Hunter on GreenTube!!

Hi all -

Humboldt State Green Campus entered a 3-minute edit of The Phantom Hunter in the National Wildlife Federation's "Campus Chillout" competition on GreenTube. Please take a moment to watch our video and learn about how energy efficiency can save you money while fighting climate change. After watching our video, please vote for it, and pass this email on to others who are interested in climate defense and energy efficiency.

Phantom Hunter Video on GreenTube

Thanks for your support!

Chris
HSU Green Campus

Energy Auditing Workshop at HSU

Green Campus, Schatz Energy Research Center, and HSU Extended Education are presenting "Greening our Campus: An Introduction to Energy Auditing" - an energy auditing workshop on the HSU campus. The workshop will focus on institutional and office energy auditing, and is geared towards beginning intermediate auditors. The workshop is being offered either for credit (ENGR 280) or as non-credit (EENC 013). Please check out our flyer for more information. The flyer is in PDF format, so you'll need a PDF reader () to view it. To register, call Extended Education at (707) 826-3731 or visit them online.

HSU GCP is looking for Energy Interns!

ENVS 482 Green Campus Energy Efficiency Internships – Fall 2008

The Green Campus Program (GC) at Humboldt State University is offering 6 internship positions for academic credit this fall 2008 semester. Interns will work beneath a Green Campus program coordinator in one of three areas: Office Energy Audits, tabling and events planning, or public relations and outreach, and are expected to put in around 6 hours of work per week. Two (2) academic credits will be given to interns after being evaluated by Green Campus staff at the close of the fall semester. Evaluations are based on an intern’s overall commitment to their respective project. The internship begins September 8th and ends December 19th.

NOTE: This internship could result in a paid position with the Green Campus Program.

The 6 positions will be divided into pairs to fill these 3 areas within GC:

• Office Energy Audits coordination
• Events/Tabling coordination
• Public Relations/Outreach coordination

Job Descriptions

• Office Energy Audit coordinators: Interns will assist project lead in conducting office energy audits and will gain experience in: Energy basics and energy efficiency; Canvassing offices; Stakeholder/office contact relationship-building; Audit process coordination; Measuring energy loads of office equipment; Excel Workbook data input & analysis; Compiling audit reports.
• Events/Tabling coordinators: Interns will assist project lead at tabling events over the course of the semester and will gain experience in: Energy basics and energy efficiency; Energy efficient technologies; Tracking hard and soft metrics; Marketing events.
• Public Relations/Outreach coordinators*: Interns will assist project lead in devising new outreach methods and will gain experience in: Energy basics and energy efficiency; Scouting various media & publications; Creating press releases; Locating venues for GC to present or speak at; Assisting project lead in planning a GC logo competition.
* Graphic design skills preferred.


Questions? Please email Sarah Schneider at sys2 at humboldt dot edu

Green Campus website: www.humboldt.edu/~greenhsu

Green Campus goes to the HOP!

Green Campus HSU was at every single HOP (Humboldt Orientation Program) during the summer thanks to Kale, Jamila, and Sarah. The PCs were there to educate incoming students on the importance of energy efficiency in the fight against anthropogenic climate change and the need for our university to cut costs. Kale, Jamila, and Sarah spoke with dozens of incoming students and their families over the course of six HOP tabling events, and explained how energy efficiency is an easy and effective way for all of us to decrease our personal carbon footprints as well as the carbon footprint of the university community. A side note: Sarah is seen holding the "Phantom Load" interactive display that was built last semester by Natural Resource Interpretation students at HSU. The display explains the concept of phantom loads - many appliances and devices in our homes, classrooms, offices, and businesses drain electricity (and money) even when they are off. For more information on phantom loads, visit the wikipedia entry on Standby Power, and find out how to cut phantom loads at Mother Earth News.

Spread the Message, Help Make the Switch

Reps from GCP, HEIF, and CCAT traveled with TallChief Comet (HSU's sustainability coordinator) down the coast to Cal Poly SLO for the 2008 UC/CSU/CCC Sustainability Conference. Along the way we stayed with the generous Sol community in Oakland. I've got some pictures from the event that will get posted before school starts. Stay tuned!

I ran across this ad on YouTube over the weekend and thought it would pair up nicely with the awesome coal parody ad from a few months back.

The Phantom Hunter (Parts I & II)

Carmen King, Jeff Steuben, and crew made a short and sweet energy efficiency video a while back. It took some time, but we finally managed to get it online with some help from San Diego State Green Campus Program.

CFL study at Humboldt State University

Lou Jacobson, a recent MA grad in Sociology (and now an energy auditor at the Redwood Coast Energy Authority), wrote his thesis las year on CFL risk perception and barriers to adoption at Humboldt State. Here are some highlights from the study:

1. 52% have CFLs as their primary light source, and 16% have never heard of CFLs
2. Primary reasons given for not using the technology were (in order): high cost, mercury toxicity, flickering, and brightness
3. Green Campus was cited as a source of information about CFLs for 30% of respondents, where Utilities & Friends had over 60%, and media ads and family both at 45%.
4. Respondents who bought their lightbulbs at a hardware store were more likely to use CFLs than those purchased at grocery stores or "box stores"
5. Statistically, significantly more men used CFLs than women.
6. 49% of respondents did not know what phantom loads were.

And some interesting excerpts:
"Early interactions with the product [CFLs] have left ripples of negative meaning associations that are still prominent within those who do not use the technology."

"First, non-users had more negative meaning attachments for CFL technologies than users. That is, non-users thought that CFLs generally flickered more, were larger than incandescent bulbs, were colder in color, and were dimmer in comparison."

"The results of this study showed that respondents from a small city or town were less likely to use CFLs than those who came from county villages, suburbs or big cities."

Thanks to HSU Energy Management Intern (and Green Campus alumnus) Jeff Steuben for sending this info to us.