Before UBC staff and faculty left for the winter break, they set up the campus to save big on energy and greenhouse gas emissions.
This past December, departments across campus joined together to reduce UBC’s environmental footprint over the winter holiday. By making a series of energy saving actions across campus, the impact they created over the nine-day break was significant: saving $20,500 in energy costs, 356,900 kWh (enough to run 4,350 refrigerators over the same period), and 13 tonnes of carbon emissions (or 10 round trips between Vancouver and Ottawa)!
This was all part of the 2016 Seasonal Shutdown Campaign, a campus-wide effort to turn down the heat in buildings and engage staff and faculty to complete energy-saving tasks. Read the full story on sustain.ubc.ca.