Every spring since 2011, WashU’s South 40 Residential Colleges compete to reduce energy use and adopt more sustainable lifestyles, preventing hundreds of metric tons of CO2 from entering the atmosphere and helping the university save money on electricity costs.
ResColleges compete against each other across several categories including energy use, green events participation, answering weekly quizzes, and logging actions via the Ecochallenge.org platform.
The competition this year will take place from February 16 through March 11.