Sustainability

Final results were announced Tuesday for two spring competitions that encourage faculty, staff and students to make lifestyle improvements for maintaining a healthier planet. Read this note for a message from Elon University President Leo M. Lambert on the importance of both contests.

With just one week remaining in the 2009 POWERless Energy Competition, the lead has narrowed in certain divisions, which organizers believe will make for an interesting home stretch during a contest to see which residence halls can most reduce their electricity consumption.

With just two weeks remaining in the 2009 POWERless Energy Competition, Colclough and Danieley Apartments C lead their divisions (with 16.7% and 19.1% reductions, respectively) in a seven-week campus contest to see which residence halls can most reduce their energy consumption.

Results are now in from Week 4 of the POWERless Energy Competition, with just three weeks remaining ni a contest to see which buildings can most reduce their electricity use on campus.

Through the first five official weeks of RecycleMania 2009, Elon University has collected nearly 44,000 pounds of material, which, like most university campuses taking part in the contest, is slightly lower than at the same point in last spring's nationwide contest.

With the 2009 POWERless Energy Competition approachings its halfway mark, the Chandler and Danieley C residence halls continue to lead in a contest that measures which buildings can best reduce their electricity use. Four weeks remain in the competition.

With two weeks down in the 2009 POWERless Energy Competition, Chandler and Danieley C lead the rest of campus in their respective divisions in a contest to measure which building can most reduce its electricity usage.

More than a third of all students car pool at least once a week. The average employee makes a 25-mile roundtrip commute. And the largest contributing factor to greenhouse gas emissions from Elon University is electricity use, according to the first ever Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory, a survey to be conducted each year as the university works toward its goal of carbon neutrality.

More than half of the 40 campus buildings taking part in the 2009 POWERless Energy Competition showed energy reduction for the first week of the contest, with every area of Elon putting forward at leas one building - and often more than one - showing a drop-off in power use.