This year’s Interhall Energy Competition came to an end at the Hall Champions League Award Ceremony this week. Celebrating the achievements of all the halls across sports, charitable fundraising, and energy saving, it was great to see so many committee members in attendance, fueling some friendly interhall rivalry!
Overall, the combined efforts of all the halls this year has reduced the University’s CO2 emissions by a fantastic 205 tonnes…that’s the weight of 34 male African elephants!
In order to achieve this, the Hall Environment Reps have been doing some fantastic work raising awareness for a range of environmental issues through a variety of activities, including:
- bike repair workshops
- maintaining their hall Environment boards
- Fairtrade bake sales
- green film screenings
- food waste collections and composting
- books/clothes/DVD swap events
- installing shower timers
- shopping bag re-use initiatives
- “bring your own cup” parties
- seed sowing and gardening
- Facebook campaigns to encourage recycling
- …and much, much more!
Each month’s winners also put their prize money to good use, investing in publicity materials for environmental campaigns, equipment for their hall gardens, and funding bike maintenance sessions with the student Bike Pool group.
The Environment Reps have been supported throughout the Interhall Competition by staff from Transition, the Environment Team, the Students’ Association, and Residential Business Services. On top of this, two student interns, Gillian and Bryony, worked to produce a “toolkit” of resources for the reps, and publicised the competition through the Interhall Energy facebook page, which now has a shiny new logo:
So, without further ado, here’s the roundup of all the winners of the Interhall Energy Competition 2014/15!
Monthly Winners
October – McIntosh Hall
November – University Hall
December – Andrew Melville Hall
February – Andrew Melville Hall
March – Agnes Blackadder Hall
April – Albany Park
Semester 1 Overall Winners
1st – Andrew Melville Hall
2nd – McIntosh Hall
3rd – University Hall
Semester 2 Overall Winners
1st – Andrew Melville Hall
2nd – David Russell & Fife Park Apartments
3rd – Deans Court
Hall Champions League Winner
McIntosh Hall
Congratulations again to all our winners! We can’t wait to meet next year’s group of Environment Reps and see which hall will come out on top!
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Useful links:
Introduction to the Interhall Energy Competition & Hall Champions League