The Climate Change Challenge is on at Mount A!

The campus-wide Climate Change Challenge (C3) is well underway at Mount A.

Organized by the student group, Eco-Action, with support from university administrators, C3 encourages residences, and academic buildings on campus to collectively reduce their energy consumption.

This is the second year for C3 — last year’s winning residence reduced their consumption by 24 per cent during the month of February. Owen Roberts, a member of Eco-Action and one of the student organizers of C3 says, “This is an easy way to convey how painless it is to reduce dramatically our greenhouse gas emissions to fight climate change! Through collaborative efforts, students and staff at Mount Allison are making a difference in their energy use at home and at work.”

Residences and academic buildings will monitor their energy usage for the month of February and then compare their usage to February 2007.

Students, faculty, and staff work together to reduce their energy usage by such efforts as unplugging unused appliances, collectively turning the heat down, air-drying laundry, and monitoring and reducing paper usage.

The residence with the biggest reduction will win a sports pack full of energy-efficient house activities, such as board games and sports equipment. The winning academic building will receive reusable mugs for all its occupants.