We are excited to announce the winning entries for the Power Down for the Planet Video Challenge. The contest was competitive with many great submissions that highlighted the Climate Savers Computing mission.
The Grand Prize was won by team ArcaneMind. The team wins $5,000 and one HP TouchSmart tx2z laptop for each team member.
The Grand Student Prize was submitted by team Tiger P.R.I.D.E. Connection from Jackson State University. The team wins $5,000 and each team member receives one 2009 Specialized Globe Vienna Deluxe 1 bike powered by Specialized and one license for Microsoft Expression Studio.
We thank everyone who participated in the Power Down for the Planet Video Challenge. All submissions are available to view at the Power Down for the Planet YouTube Group page. Below is a Playlist that includes the winning entries as well as those that received honorable mention:
The Power Down for the Planet Video Challenge was a related competition under the Power Down for the Planet Challenge that brought eco-conscious students and campus communities together in a movement to reduce the energy consumption of computers. Students, staff and faculty at participating universities joined the challenge by pledging their support to adopt green computing practices.
The University of Maine at Farmington won the first Power Down for the Planet Challenge with more than 24 percent of its campus community pledging to commit to sustainable computing practices. The University of Iowa also received honorable mention for garnering the highest number of campus-wide pledges with 6,013. Additional information about the winners of the Power Down for the Planet Challenge here.
Monday, May 4, 2009
Friday, March 13, 2009
Universities Power Down, Videos Fire Up
There are two basic facts that keep the Climate Savers Computing team marching forward each day: The average desktop PC in use today wastes nearly half the power it pulls from the wall – and there are currently over 1 billion PCs in deployment globally and 2.25 billion expected by 2015.
These realities have us focusing on the world of higher education through April as we challenge students, faculty and staff across the globe to Power Down for the Planet.
Colleges and universities around the world have been asked to make a dent in climate impact by powering down campus computers. In collaboration with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star program we are educating and engaging college students on a large scale about their computer power consumption and how that affects the environment.
Why the focus on this population? College students in the U.S. alone can collectively make a one million-ton reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by better managing their computers.
Who has stepped up for the challenge to date? Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, Purdue University, University of California at San Diego, University of Iowa, University of Michigan, University of Maine, University of Maryland and California State University, Chico.
One winning university will be selected based on the highest percentage of on-campus staff, student and faculty pledges toward use of computer power management tools.
But, in addition to a winning university (and a winning planet) we’ll have some additional winners – provided they can tell a big story on the small screen.
Our Power Down for the Planet video contest challenges participants to develop original and creative videos that educate, entertain, and/or inform others about the importance of energy efficient computing to the global environment.
Winners will be on the receiving end of cold, hard cash, as well as up to five 2009 Globe Vienna 1 bikes powered by Specialized, HP TouchSmart tx2z laptops and Microsoft Expression Studio software. Submissions are open until April 17.
These realities have us focusing on the world of higher education through April as we challenge students, faculty and staff across the globe to Power Down for the Planet.
Colleges and universities around the world have been asked to make a dent in climate impact by powering down campus computers. In collaboration with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star program we are educating and engaging college students on a large scale about their computer power consumption and how that affects the environment.
Why the focus on this population? College students in the U.S. alone can collectively make a one million-ton reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by better managing their computers.
Who has stepped up for the challenge to date? Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, Purdue University, University of California at San Diego, University of Iowa, University of Michigan, University of Maine, University of Maryland and California State University, Chico.
One winning university will be selected based on the highest percentage of on-campus staff, student and faculty pledges toward use of computer power management tools.
But, in addition to a winning university (and a winning planet) we’ll have some additional winners – provided they can tell a big story on the small screen.
Our Power Down for the Planet video contest challenges participants to develop original and creative videos that educate, entertain, and/or inform others about the importance of energy efficient computing to the global environment.
Winners will be on the receiving end of cold, hard cash, as well as up to five 2009 Globe Vienna 1 bikes powered by Specialized, HP TouchSmart tx2z laptops and Microsoft Expression Studio software. Submissions are open until April 17.
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