final presentations 2014 - pdf

2013-2014 Internship Program Presentations

• R&DE Dining

• PSSI Zero Waste Events

• R&DE Give n Go

• PSSI Café Study

• R&DE Communications

• R&DE Winter Heating

• R&DE Zero Waste

• Office of Sustainability Behavior

Change and Outreach

Final Presentations

2013-14 Sustainable Food Update

3

4

Intern Program

5

ResEd Collaboration

6

Stanford Seed Library

7

Gardens

8

Cooking Classes

9

Sustainable Seafood Program

10

Events

11

Waste Reduction

12

Waste Audit with PSSI

13

Green Restaurant Association Audits

14

Sustainable Food Newsletter

By Sonja

Lockhart

SUSTAINABILITY

INTERNSHIP WITH PSSI:

CASE STUDIES ON

WASTE REDUCTION

What did this event do to in

order to reduce waste?

What can this event do better

in the future?

Any tips for people organizing

events on campus?

OBJECTIVE/PROCESS

Identify on-campus

event dealing with

waste

Interview organizer

Ask key questions

Write up findings in

easy to understand

format

Wrote about 4

events of varying

nature and size

Reunion

Homecoming

Keys to

Sustainability

BeWell Employee

Wellness Fair

43rd Annual Stanford

Powwow

EVENTS/OVERVIEW

Most common challenges/initiatives

Most common hopes for the future of event

Interesting/surprising initiatives

Significance of case studies?

FINDINGS

Give & Go

Internship

Christina Zhou, Claire Thompson, and Eliza Lupone

Original Problem: Green Move Out 2012

Goals

● Expanding donation locations

● Consistent Outreach

● Collecting Metrics

● Student Coordinator Program

● Service Agreements

Implementation of Proposal

1. Logistical

2. Marketing & Outreach

3. Give & Go Student Coordinators

Logistics

● With help from Vendor Management, we oversaw an

official “Request for Information” (RFI) process, which

resulted in the selection of Goodwill as our partner

organization

Logistics

Marketing & Outreach: Existing

Website

Barrel

Labels

Flyers

Emails

Newsletter

Student

Groups

Marketing & Outreach: New

Student Coordinator Program

Success Indicators

1. General satisfaction of all

stakeholders

2. Participation of students

3. Reduction in waste sent to landfill

4. Reduction in labor clean-up costs

5. Feedback from Goodwill

Reflection

Past challenges: ● Differing expectations with partner organizations

● Lack of response/interest

● Difficulties in hiring process for coordinators

Room to improve: ● Clearer communication and understanding

● Establishing precedent

● Improving metrics collection

Thank you!

We would like to extend our sincerest thanks to:

Building Managers

Office of Sustainability

Student Coordinators

Goodwill

R&DE, including Nicole, Laura, Kristin, Imogen, Rodger

Waste Disposal at Stanford Cafes

Fabian Bock | Mauricio Antuñano

Project Plan

Problems:

- Improper Waste Servicing

- Garbage Separation

Solution:

- Signage

- Education

- Tracking

Timeframe: Oct 2013 – May 2014

Initial Outreach

Olives Café - sustainable products - waste separation Cool Café - sustainable practices - purchasing Cubberley Café - waste separation - employee education

Next Steps

Behavior Tracking

Waste Audit

Expansion!

Sustainable

Living Video

Kendall Cody

Problem

● R&DE lacks a comprehensive, long-term

program to incentivize energy, water and

waste reduction among students in housing

beyond the Sustainable Living Guide. This

leads to unnecessary costs and

environmental footprint.

Goals

● Encourage and incentivize more sustainable

living habits and awareness among Stanford

Students

● Reduce overall resource consumption,

specifically focusing in on student energy

use, water use and waste

Investigation

Focus groups and interviews were conducted in

order to determine the best way to effectively

reach the Stanford student population.

Investigation

Key Findings:

● A lighthearted, yet educational approach to

these issues is the best way to reach

students

● Communicate tangible results/metrics

legitimizes the sustainability program and

inspires students to actually perform

● Create a community network for reinforcing

behavior change

Solution

● Make information on our website more

applicable and available to students & staff

through more frequent updates to the

sustainable housing website

● Develop and script an effective video series

on “How to Live Sustainably in the Student

Housing”

Implementation

● Update the Sustainable Stanford website to

include more recent initiatives and

information so that students have

information available to them

● Create and distribute Sustainable Living

video series implementing familiar Stanford

faces to deliver the message of how to live

sustainably on campus

Reflection

I learned about how to effectively reach a

university student body and useful tools for

eliciting behavioral change in regards to

sustainability initiatives as well as other general

initiatives.

I look forward to the eventual creation and

distribution of the video series and hope it has a

positive impact on Stanford sustainability efforts.

Thank you!

I would like to give a special thanks to Nicole

Greenspan and Laura McKaughan who have

provided immense guidance and support

throughout the planning and conceptualizing

of the video series as well as my entire

internship experience.

Fiona & Oliver

Winter Heating

Project Overview

● Problem

o wide open windows in residence halls during

Winter months

● Goal

o reduce energy used for winter heating

o determine cause of window opening

● Study

o comfort surveys

o data logging

● Consultation

o kW Engineering

Survey Results

temp & air quality

comfort

temp control

opened window to

improve comfort

very

uncomfortable

very

comfortable

no control complete

control

never many times

Ventilation Data

Next Steps

● Analyze kW

recommendations against

behavioral conclusions

● Determine best choice

for Stern Hall

● Document study to

advise future projects

Reflection

● Project challenges

o maximizing resources

o correlating infrastructural data with

behavioral data

● Next time

o more preliminary research

o strive for understanding instead of

verification

Thank you to all the awesome people

that made this project possible!

Zero Waste Internship R&DE Student Housing

Morgan Abbett & Ariel Bobbett

Paper towels used in Stanford residences are currently

landfilled even though they are compostable

Problem #1

Problem #1 Paper towels used in Stanford

residences are currently landfilled even though they

are compostable

Solution Install composting

infrastructure in residence restrooms and educate

residents

Problem #1 Paper towels used in Stanford

residences are currently landfilled even though they

are compostable

Solution Install composting

infrastructure in residence restrooms and educate

residents

Students receive one recycling bin in their rooms,

but there are two major recycling streams

Problem #2

Students receive one recycling bin in their rooms,

but there are two major recycling streams

Problem #2

Solution Install multi-stream recycling

bins in student rooms

Students receive one recycling bin in their rooms,

but there are two major recycling streams

Problem #2

Solution Install multi-stream recycling

bins in student rooms

Results: • Survey feedback from students generally highly

positive

• Both programs increase diversion of recyclable and compostable materials from landfill

• More detailed results to come in the next two weeks

Results: • Survey feedback from students generally highly

positive

• Both programs increase diversion of recyclable and compostable materials from landfill

• More detailed results to come in the next two weeks

Thank you to Nicole Greenspan and the rest of R&DE Student Housing for advising and making these

projects possible, and thank you to the Green Fund for supporting the restroom composting pilot!

RecycleMania “We Recycle, Stanford Wins”

Andrea Martinez: Behavior Change and Outreach Intern 2014

Outcomes

Andrea Martinez: Behavior Change and Outreach Intern 2014

• Surpassed Pledge Goal

• Improvement from last year in RecycleMania competition

• Awareness of the Campaign

Outcomes

Andrea Martinez: Behavior Change and Outreach Intern 2014

Highlights

Andrea Martinez: Behavior Change and Outreach Intern 2014

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RECYCLEMANIA TRASH TALK

Red Solo Cups:

Landfill

Non-compostable

Coffee Cups:

Landfill

Plastic bags:

Paper

Pizza box:

Compost

Visit us at: sustainable.stanford.edu/recyclemania

Lessons

Andrea Martinez: Behavior Change and Outreach Intern 2014

• Outreach Methods

• Outreach Locations

• The Messenger