Category: Sustainability
IMAGINE - ENGAGE - EDUCATE
Yale is a community of ~ 23,000 people, comprised of more than 330 buildings that operate 365 days a year. The university produces and consumes energy, relies upon natural resources locally and globally, produces waste and consequently has a substantial impact on our environment. In the meantime, Yale is expanding its built environment 15% over the next decade.
In an effort to reduce it’s overall ecological footprint and institutionalize policies and practices that lead to resource use reduction, Yale has taken on the challenge of becoming a leader in campus sustainability. Many goals and targets have been established to guide this effort. One such goal is to reduce our greenhouse gases 10% below 1990 levels by 2020 or a 43% reduction from 2005 levels.
The Yale community plays an integral role in the University’s success of becoming a sustainable institution. To reach this goal, the community must be aware of Yale’s commitment, understand the complexity of the challenge and participate by adopting sustainable behaviors.
To learn more about sustainability at Yale go to the Office of Sustainability site at www.yale.edu/sustainability.
The Contest Challenge:
Sustainability is a complex endeavor which requires vision, imagination, creativity, an interdisciplinary framework, critical thinking and analysis and problem solving. We are challenged to integrate principles of sustainability in most decisions we make on a daily basis from the food we eat to the transportation we take to the amount of energy we use.
This is an opportunity to demonstrate how digital technology can advance Yale’s commitment to become a sustainable campus. Develop a project that: demonstrates IMAGINATION on what it means to be sustainable; EDUCATES the general community on an issue and how they might think differently about a decision; seeks to ENGAGE multiple perspectives and new knowledge.
Develop a podcast, videocast or other digital medium which raises awareness by telling the story of the complex challenge that Yale faces and how a complex institution seeks solutions.
Judging will be based on the following criteria:
- Scope of target audience
- Creativity in presenting information
- Demonstrated ability to use digital media to convey information
The top three submissions will have their work incorporated into the Yale Peabody Museum’s upcoming Sustainable Solutions exhibit as well as featured on the Office of Sustainability’s website.