Lights Out Fridays Going Strong

One of the several Education Committee Initiatives this year is Lights Out Fridays. Through Lights Out Fridays (LoF), EWB-UC members go around every Friday in the late afternoon and shut off lights left on in classrooms all around campus. The point in this program is an effort to change the energy culture at the University of Cincinnati. Lights left on on Fridays will probably be left on an entire weekend, wasting a lot of energy. If this is happening every week in classrooms all over campus, that can add up to quite an additional strain on UC's pocketbook. EWB students calculate the savings based on the amount of lights turned off, and we hope to submit a proposal to the University of Cincinnati at the end of the year, calling for installation of the motion sensing lights in classrooms across campus. This new equipment could easily be purchased with the money which UC has already saved from the EWB LoF team! This is exactly what EWB-UC stands for: sustainable solutions through partnership, that educate our community!

We like to have fun, too! Check out this great promotional video by two of our very own LoF leaders!