Archive for the ‘Further Discussion’ Category
Lessons from the Oberlin Ecolympics
Lora DiFranco, Ecolympics coordinator at Oberlin College, wrote a great post on the It’s Getting Hot in Here blog in which she shared things that went well, things that didn’t go well and things she would change in future Ecolympics at Oberlin.
Thanks for taking the time to make that post, Lora! All too often, [...]
April 28, 2008
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Learned a lesson the hard way? Share so others don’t have to!
Have you run a campus sustainability competition? Did you try some things that didn’t work out so great? Or, maybe you didn’t try some things that you later realized would have been great? Share those lessons here so they aren’t lost! Others will benefit from your experience.
April 28, 2008
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Field Trips / Open Houses
If your campus has interesting sustainability projects going on, a great event for your competition is to have an open house or field trip to the project.В Students can earn points for their dorm or win door prizes for attending the event.
You can also organize field trips to things that aren’t necessarily shining sustainability projects.В [...]
February 27, 2008
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Post your video response here!
If you post a video on Google Video or YouTube or somewhere else, but want users of this site to find it, create a post in this section that describes your video and links to it.
October 26, 2007
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Scavenger Hunt
For years Environmental Alliance has talked about running an eco-scavenger hunt as part of the Eco-Olympics.В The idea would be to have teams from the dorms compete to find sustainability related places and things on campus.В For example, the winning team would be the first ones to return with digital photos of themselves standing in [...]
October 26, 2007
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