The Darden Carbon Footprint "DCF" Challenge
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Take actions every day to earn Darden Cup points for your section and invest in a carbon neutral future for Darden by reducing your own individual carbon footprint, estimated to be at least the size of an 8 ton elephant every year!!!
A challenge in THREE parts during the week of November 17th - 21st, 2008:
Race to reduce waste in the "Cups" Competition
Decrease your environmental footprint by completing our Sustainability Checklist
Shrink your carbon footprint by investing in Carbon Offsets
The Winning Section will:
Use the fewest disposable cups
Achieve the highest checklist participation
Accumulate the largest carbon offset investment fund balance
This is your chance to shine!!! Earn Darden Cup points and proudly represent your section!
How will you respond? How will your section respond? How will this event shape up the landscape on the current Darden Cup standing amongst sections?
Which section will become the new Number One section after the "DCF" Challenge?
Check out the following "DCF" activities that you can participate in! Game on! Blog about your reactions/thoughts/suggestions here on the Net Impact Blog.
"DCF" ACTIVITIES HIGHLIGHT
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"Cups" Competition
Reduce our waste by decreasing the number of disposable cups used each day for drinking coffee and tea in school. Use a more sustainable alternative to disposable cups like a reusable travel mug or coffee cup.
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Sustainability Checklist
- We’ve created a list of simple activities that we can all do to reduce our environmental impact.
- Please complete five of the items on the checklist during the week and return to your section DCF Challenge representative.
Please log your activities here and earn Darden Cup points for your section!
Darden/UVA Honor Code applies!
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Carbon Footprint Offsets
- Reduce our carbon footprint by changing our individual behaviors
- Reduce our carbon footprint by investing in clean energy and carbon reduction projects, therefore offsetting our footprint.
You can reduce your footprint one academic quarter at a time for a $20, and help build your section's carbon offsets investment fund. You will be receiving via email a pay pal link (or scroll to the bottom of this page for the link) to participate, through investing in offsets provided by 3Degrees, a company which has been used by Starbucks and FedEx.
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The DCF Learning Lab - Thursday 11/20/2008 @ 1:30 p.m. Room 130
Imagine this: each one of us can grow to the size of an 8 ton African male elephant with our carbon footprint in one year. Do you want to understand the details of this DCF model and challenge the underlying assumptions? Come to the DCF Learning Lab and take a closer look at how the Darden Carbon Footprint was calculated. Oh remember that trash audit? The results will be unveiled too.
Purchase Darden Full Time MBA Carbon Offset
Please invest in your section and Darden's carbon neutral future and purchase Carbon offsets via the following PayPal link.