Help Save the World (and Energy)! [Dorm Electricity Competition]

[Nikolai Tesla]

Hey MIT, want to be sustainable for Earth Week? Remember that happening
this April *right now *is the *UA Committee on Sustainability*'s 3rd
annual Dorm
Electricity Competition! How you can help:

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*Earn Spirit Points for your Dorm: *
By emailing talktoDEC at mit.edu with a picture of you doing any of the
following things, we will award 7 spirit points! We encourage multiple
submissions--the more sustainability the better. (Photos will be posted on
our Facebook page <https://www.facebook.com/MITdormelectricity>.)

   - Filling a reusable water bottle
   - Using your own reuseable bag at a grocery store
   - Using the Green Bean Recycling Machine in the Student Center (1st
   floor, near the stairs)
   - Composting on campus
   - Planting something in your room
   - ...or any other random act of sustainability that comes to mind!


*Save Electricity:*
We also score the dorms based on their energy useage. You can help your
dorm to reduce its energy consumption by doing any of the following.

   - Wash laundry with cold water and wait until you have a full load
   - Unplug your empty minifridge
   - Use a power strip for your electronics and turn it off at night. Avoid
   leaving charged electronics plugged in!
   - Take shorter showers
   - Exercise outside instead of using the treadmill
   - Turn off the lights

*Why? *

   - It's good for the planet
   - Eternal dorm glory!
   - Individuals with spirit points will have a chance at winning prizes in
   a raffle at the end of the competition. Earn more spirit points, earn more
   raffle tickets.

There are 8* days left*, and it's up to *you *to make a *difference.*

*Current Competition Standings:*
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This graph compares energy used per person per day in each dorm over March
2014 to energy used per person per day in each dorm from April 2nd to April
16th, 2015. You want a bar above the x-axis (Congratulations to Simmons and
Baker).

Some of the more dramatic changes might be due to changes in your dorm's
facilities that go beyond switching students switching their lights off
(looking at you, Simmons and Random). We're not sure; we're just reporting
the data.* If you have a credible idea for what changed in the past year
and send it to talktoDEC at mit.edu <talktoDEC at mit.edu>, we'll give you spirit
points. *In the meantime, try your hardest to change your kWh per day in
the next week! We'll let you know how you did.

~ visit our Facebook page
<https://www.facebook.com/MITdormelectricity?fref=ts>, event page
<https://www.facebook.com/events/943319442359198/>, or website
<http://mitdormelectricity.weebly.com/> to learn more about the
competition. Email talktoDEC at mit.edu with any questions. See poster below
for a list of our events~

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