natalie espinoza & cruz garcia powersave campus interns california state university, long beach

Natalie Espinoza & Cruz Garcia PowerSave Campus Interns

California State University, Long BeachEspinoza.natalie10@gmail.com &

cruz.b.Garcia@gmail.com

PowerSave Campus and Long Beach State Athletic Partnership

2014 California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

CSULB PowerSave Campus PowerSave National

Program Across 16 California

campuses Long Beach Program Mega Energy

Competition I Heart Green Jobs Tabling: Week of

Welcome, Eco Week, Earth Day

Pyramid Collaboration

Spring 2013 Meeting to plan out

“Greening of the Pyramid”

Decided on three separate components

1. Energy Star Portfolio2. Green Office

Certification3. Go Green Game

No need to reinvent the wheel Green Office

Certification Excel document Signage

Energy Star Portfolio Using the program in

relation to our very own Pyramid

Planning for Game Day

Many meetings with Pyramis Management Collaboration:

Pyramid Management Long Beach State Athletics Marketing Long beach State Transportation Physical Planning and Facilities mangemnet

Go Green Game Day

February 27th, 2014 Televised game against University of Hawaii Bike and skateboard valet Vendors and student groups on concourse No paper programs Special shirts for staff Dimming lights before game and during half time Energy Hog

Outreach to 3100 attendees.

Lessons Learned

Working with athletics Another campus entity

Working with other interns Untapped resource

Challenges and Successes

T-shirt Giveaway Televised Game Getting students to

recognize the purpose of the game

Volunteers Green Campus Club Greek Organizations

Accomplishments

Able to reach many different types of students on campus

Created a relationship with athletics The game will most likely become annual Identified Potential savings for future games

Hopefully able to improve upon actual savings for future games

Acknowledgements

Cameron Ungar and Amir Rana of Long Beach State Pyramid Management

Paul Wingco of Long Beach State Physical Planning and Facilities Management

PowerSave Program

Natalie Espinoza & Cruz GarciaPowerSave Campus Intern

California State University, Long Beach Espinoza.natalie10@gmail.com & cruz.b.Garcia@gmail.com

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