Sustainability Guide: Format
The purpose of our workshop was to develop and establish a Sustainability Guide accessible to all students at the University. This Sustainability Guide is meant to educate students about the importance of sustainable living and give them information about incorporating sustainability into their daily lives. The purpose of our team was to research and determine the best possible format for this Guide. We started this process by determining the necessary criteria for the guide: accessibility, physical sustainability, cost, ability to update, and a Student Council survey. After outlining the criteria, we identified several possible formats for the guide and developed a matrix to gauge how they ranked with regards to the criteria. From these evaluations we developed our final recommendation for the Guide.
Sustainability Guide, Format, University of Virginia, social media, email, website, Oliver Atwood, Cari Bergner, Michael Promisel, Rachel Schmidt
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Sustainability Guide: Format

Education_SustainabilityGuide (click PDF)

Fall 2011

Team Members: Oliver Atwood, Cari Bergner, Michael Promisel, Rachel Schmidt

The purpose of our workshop was to develop and establish a Sustainability Guide accessible to all students at the University. This Sustainability Guide is meant to educate students about the importance of sustainable living and give them information about incorporating sustainability into their daily lives. The purpose of our team was to research and determine the best possible format for this Guide. We started this process by determining the necessary criteria for the guide: accessibility, physical sustainability, cost, ability to update, and a Student Council survey. After outlining the criteria, we identified several possible formats for the guide and developed a matrix to gauge how they ranked with regards to the criteria. From these evaluations we developed our final recommendation for the Guide.

The formats with the highest point totals on the matrix were social media, email, and website. From this information, we developed the best approach for the Guide: the “home” and “extremity” approach. We recommend that the Sustainability Guide has a central home on the SustainaUnity website. This gives students an easily accessible resource at their fingertips. The extremities of the guide will reach out to as many students as possible. Social media and email were the most appealing of these extremities. Our workshop has asked the SustainaUnity group to include tips from the guide in their weekly emails.

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