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UMD OFFICE OF SUSTAINABLITY. Mission Statement: The Office of Sustainability and the UMD Campus are committed to communicating, educating, and inspiring action to integrate sustainability into all aspects of campus life. LiNCS Objectives.
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UMD OFFICE OF SUSTAINABLITY Mission Statement: The Office of Sustainability and the UMD Campus are committed to communicating, educating, and inspiring action to integrate sustainability into all aspects of campus life.
LiNCS Objectives • Assess need for signage around elevator/stairs to decrease elevator use • Evaluate results to cater signs towards target audience • Create signs
The Elevator Project • The Issue: Heavy elevator use on campus. • The Facts: Electricity and energy use account for 90% of UMD’s carbon footprint.* *Statistic taken from UMD’s Office of Sustainability website
The Survey • Surveyed 712 UMD elevator riders in five different on campus elevators14hours. • Most Highly Used Elevators on Campus: • Darland Administration Building (2 units) • Solon Campus Center • Labovitz School of Business & Economics (2 units) • Library (2 units)
The Findings • 559 people (78%) reported they took the elevator for convenience. • 153 (22%) reported they took the elevator for health reasons. • When asked for what reasons they would opt the stairs: • 386 people said they would take the stairs because it’s healthier for them • 189 people said they would take the stairs because it uses less energy on campus • 340 people said they would still take the elevator
The Next Steps… • Making Point-of-Decision Prompts (PODP’s) to encourage stair use • Inform people about health or weight loss benefits from taking the stairs • Remind people already predisposed to becoming more active, for health or other reasons, about an opportunity at hand to do so Information from: http://www.thecommunityguide.org/pa/environmental-policy/podp.html
Biggest Area of Responsibility • Responsibility I: Assess Needs, Assets, and Capacity for Health Education & • Responsibility IV: Conduct Evaluation and Research Related to Health Education
Theory • Precaution Adoption Process Model specifies seven distinct stages in the journey from lack of awareness to adoption and/or maintenance of a behavior. It begins with lack of awareness and advances through subsequent stages of becoming aware, deciding whether or not to act, acting, and maintaining the behavior.
Greatest Challenge • Riding in an elevator for 14 hours. • Finding time.. It’s been a busy semester!
Most Rewarding Experience • Calculating the data and knowing that the hardest part was over!
If I had to do it over again.. • Have a better idea of how much time I would realistically have to dedicate to this project.