Oberlin College
Campus resource dashboards, conservation competitions and Carbon Neutral Stories.
Campus buildings are teaching tools: students can see heating, cooling, electricity and water systems at work. But most students never notice how much energy a dorm or lab uses, or think about the campus as a system.
Oberlin College uses building dashboards and Ecolympics competitions to engage students in resource conservation. The first electricity and water reduction competition was in 2006, and the college has 12 signs on campus.
I really feel that I am a part of the resource use graphs displayed on the dashboards. This feeling motivates me to be more thoughtful when consuming water and electricity.
In use here: Building Dashboard, Stories, Phone App
Runs at oberlin.communityhub.cloud
