Green Games

“Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”   

 World Commission on Environment and Development. (1987). Our Common Future. England: Oxford University Press.

Purpose – To provide a focus on educational awareness and implementation of Sustainable Efforts while including a sense of competition through participation and events.

Object – To obtain as many points as possible during a 3 month period through creating programs both active and passive, as well as participate in other sustainable efforts such as community service on/off campus, and finally through attendance at these efforts.

Process – Each hall will have a Captain – “Sustainable Director” – this person has been selected by the hall to meet with the Assistant Director of Residential Life for Dickinson Community to help communicate with the hall, help with the implementation of the programs, and be collector of program proposals and evaluations.  These forms would be turned in the Assistant Director who will be responsible for compiling results and communicating it to the community of standings as regular as possible.

Time – Program will start the January 22, 2009 and will end April 22, 2009 – Earth Day.

Reward

1.  Hall Name Engraved on Plaque
2.  200 dollars to be used for the hall either improvements, a party, etc.
3.  A large flat panel television with also uses energy conservation techniques to replace the one in your lounge (even bigger)
4. An appreciation to helping our future students enjoy a better Dickinson

Who Can Participate – Any and all efforts by any student or staff member of the hall

Process:  To receive points, students/staff must fill out application and submit to Sustainable Director at least 5 business days prior to activity for approval.  Upon completion of activity, the evaluation report must be completed and pictures of program, event, or project must be supplied.

                Hall receives points as follows for the following:

•     Hall Kickoff Event – 300 points
•     Passive Program – 25 points
•     Active Program – 50 points, 25 bonus points for bringing in  an outside presenter who has knowledge in the topic focus
•     Community Service Project – 75 points
•      Sustainable Efforts Campaign – 25 points
•      Participation Points – 10 points per person (based on percentage of hall size)
•       Inter-hall efforts – 50 points

Hall Kickoff Event – Program must be done during the first week of the contest.  Program must be an all hall event that kicks off your hall’s campaign to educate students on sustainability.  It must have a feel of hall effort in providing the kickoff and must have at least 20 people present.          

Passive Program – Hall can receive points for every bulletin board that provides an educational campaign for the residents of the hall in regards to Sustainability and What Students Can Do.  No 2 bulletin boards can be identical to receive multiple points.

Active Program – Hall can receive points for every active program that provides a focus on sustainability.  Each program must be different.

Community Service Project – Hall must create and implement and/or join an already existing a community service project.  Each project must be at least 2 hours long.

Sustainable Effort Campaign – Hall must address sustainability within their hall and show ways they are addressing it within their every day lives within the hall.

Participation Points – Yes it is easy to gain points for programs, but here is where the hall that wins will pull ahead.  You receive points for every person that attends the kickoff event, active programs, community service project or inter hall programs.

Inter-hall efforts – We do not want to ignore efforts when multiple halls work together in projects or activities – so you would receive bonus points for finding ways to work as a team.

Click Here to See Results of the Broome County Legislature Green Inititiative Award Program