What is EEAP and how does it work?
The Earlham Energy Awareness project (EEAP) is an incentive program created to reward students for environmentally conscious living. Students living in Earlham College friendship and theme houses can participate by conserving gas, water and electricity. EEAP seeks to reduce the college’s ecological footprint by tracking gas, water, and electricity consumption, and offering cash back to houses that save. EEAP shows that conservation and thrift are not exclusive but work in tandem – the reward being an alleviated conscience and savings in one’s pocket.
Every month, each house’s utility bills come to the college, and are entered into the EEAP website. Each house is considered to ‘save’ on utilities if they use less that the monthly average for their house from the past three years. If a reduction is registered, then a large portion of the savings (in cash) is available for the house convener to pick up in the business office. The house may do with the money as they please. A few weeks before the end of the semester, savings will be totaled and distributed to students all at once. For the fall semester (September through November) this will occur at the beginning of December. For the spring (January through March), it will take place early in April. Houses can see how much they have reduced and earned at the end of each month by accessing this website. Finally, any unclaimed money and the savings from December and April (because the bills come in too late to get savings to students) is swept into an account for EEAP to work towards increased energy awareness and conservation on campus.
Thank you to all those who have made this project possible.
from the EEAP team: Colin Copeland (‘07), Alex Lemann (‘06), Alex Haworth (‘08), & Jonathan Jenner (‘10)
- To Marlene Penfield for her unwavering assistance and her good humor. Without her impeccable record keeping the project would have been impossible. Thanks especially for putting up with our never ending stream of questions.
- To Mic Jackson who furnished the classroom environment where EEAP was first conceived of and for his encouragement and sound advice whenever the the project came up against brick walls.
- To John Walker for his enthusiasm and his willingness to house the EEAP project under the umbrella of Facilities.
- To Dana North for her friendly chats and her help in coordinating the project’s Res-Life components.
- To Kate Branson (‘07): for the The eeap logo.
- To Dick Smith For his invaluable perspective and the the assistance he gave in getting the program approved so quickly.
- To Andrew “Fitz” Gibbon (‘09), and Shawn Smith (‘07): The system administrators.
- To Buster the cat & Miller Farm for keeping us company over the long hot summer and for putting up with us on your porch.
- To Charlie Peck for helping with a database schema & visualization suggestions.
- To Alan Bigger, head of Maintenance, for his help and guidance
