October Residential Carbon Statements!

Big Savers:

You recently received an email regarding your "Residential Carbon Emissions- October 2008," from your Green Living Coordinator! This is an educational piece to inform you about the environmental consequence from living in Student Housing in October, according to historical data.

Your "Total Per Student Emissions" was calculated from monthly data Student Housing collects of four utilities: electricity, natural gas, steam, and water. Each of these utilities has a related "Emissions Factor," which represent the resultant CO2 released into the atmosphere from their generation and distribution from our campus power plant, Cardinal Cogen.

As you utilize these energy "currencies" in the form of "energy services" (like illumination, space heating, showers, cooking), global warming pollution is released into the atmosphere. The numbers you see represent the impact of per-capita consumption at your building: your own Residential Carbon Footprint!

Why is this important? Students pay for utilities in a line item, Room and Board, in our Quarterly University Bill, the cost of which is determined by the amount of energy we're projected to consume. This rate structure is unlike back home, and in the future, where we'll pay for utility services based on our consumption...but this up-front payment doesn't mean we shouldn't save energy and water! We cannot be disconnected from our consumption--it has an environmental and economic impact whether or not we know about it! See our list of tips to the right for ways to be energy conscious--conserve and be energy efficient!

To answer your questions:
1) This data represents a month's consumption for a baseline year for purposes of comparing our consumption to Cal's during The Big Save.
2) Unfortunately, this data is not online, but Green Campus is installing a Building Dashboard to display real-time consumption (see post below) in Storey House later this year.
3) How do you compare to other Big Save dorms at Stanford?

Total Per-Student Carbon Emissions (lb CO2):
Toyon: 399.19
Yost: 389.79
EBF: 363.84
Tri-Delta: 357.11
Donner: 275.24
Loro: 275.24
EAST: 267.37
Hammarskjold: 259.41
Synergy: 195.03
FroSoCo: 194.69

Keep conserving! The winner of The Big Save will be determined by the greatest percentage reduction in personal electricity use summed for all participating dorms during October and November!