{"id":1931,"date":"2012-02-17T17:07:30","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T00:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/sustainability\/blog\/?p=1931"},"modified":"2012-02-17T17:07:30","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T00:07:30","slug":"osu-up-students-join-national-efficiency-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/2012\/02\/17\/osu-up-students-join-national-efficiency-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"OSU, UP students join national efficiency competition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Students in University of Portland’s LEED Gold-certified Fields and Schoenfeldt Halls will compete to try to save the most electricity and water.<\/span><\/p>\n

Students at the University of Portland and Oregon State University are joining a national competition this month, going head to to head with students at schools around the country to reduce their electricity and water use.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Campus Conservation Nationals<\/a> competition will run from February 6 and April 23 \u2014 schools pick a three-week window within those dates to run the program on their campus. Building dashboard software by Lucid, an Oakland, Calif.-based software company, will track each university’s progress including individual dorm performance and a national goal to save one gigawatt hour of electricity through the competition. A total of 250,000 students are expected to participate in the competition.<\/span><\/p>\n

On the University of Portland campus, individual dorms will compete against each other for a $500 prize. The school also has laid down a challenge to its sister school, Notre Dame University.<\/span><\/p>\n

The competition is organized by the Center for Green Schools at the U.S. Green Building Council<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Officials at UP say the efficiency competition is just latest in a stream of sustainability efforts. The school was the first college on the West Coast to discontinue the sale of disposable plastic water bottles on campus, has set a <\/span>goal to be carbon neutral by 2040 and has reduced food waste by 70 percent in its dining halls.<\/p>\n

Oregon State University also brings considerable sustainability cred with it to the competition. The school was last month named No. 4 in the nation for its green power use<\/a> and last year received a gold designation<\/a> from the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System.<\/span><\/p>\n

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By Christina Williams<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Sustainable Business Oregon<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Students in University of Portland’s LEED Gold-certified Fields and Schoenfeldt Halls will compete to try to save the most electricity and water. Students at the University of Portland and Oregon State University are joining a national competition this month, going head to to head with students at schools around the country to reduce their electricity […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}