Relight Redwood Bowl

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Relight Redwood Bowl Green Campus
Program Humboldt State University 2008

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What is the Green Campus Program?

• Student-led EE outreach program
• 12 UC/CSU campuses
• Standford Uni.
• Alliance to Save Energy est. 1977

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Humboldt State Green Campus

• Award-winning program
• 4 student program coordinators
• and 6 interns
• 3-pronged approach to promoting
• energy efficiency at HSU
• Energy Education
• Generating measurable energy savings
• Institutionalizing sustainability

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Relight Redwood Bowl

• Replace inefficient stadium lighting
• Ecosystem disruption, excessive energy use and
  carbon generation
• New Reflectors
• More light on the field, fewer lamps on the poles
• Coalition
• Green Campus, Redwood Chapter of Interpreters,
  HSU GIS Club, Plant Ops Student Energy Manager
• Funding
• Humboldt State University
• Office of the Chancellor
• Humboldt Energy Independence Fund (HEIF)

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Hard Energy Savings

• 37.75 Reduction in Energy means
• Money
• 3212.02 annually
• Energy
• 24707.88 kWh ( 3 average US homes)
• 87.5 kW load reduction on game nights
• Like powering down dozens of homes during
  residential energy prime time
• Carbon
• 29.4 tons of CO2 prevented

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Co-Benefitsbeyond kWh and CO2

• Less Impact on Local Ecosystems Humans
• Light pollution hurts nighttime pollinators and
  offshore fisheries
• Benefits to local fishing and agricultural
  economies
• Less light disruption to neighboring residences
• Enhanced Field Lighting Quality
• Benefit for Athletes, Fans, and HSU
• Less maintenance
• Benefits Plant Ops staff and budget

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Contact us

• Green Campus Program
• Chris Escarcega
• Jamila Ghoul THANK YOU!
• Kale Roberts Jon Mitscha
• Sarah Schneider Carmen King
• Jeff Steuben
• www.humboldt.edu/greenhsu
• greenhsu_at_humboldt.edu