- Excuse me have you ever heard about No Shave November?
- What?
- So the purpose of No Shave November was
to make students in each house more aware
of their personal water consumption and in turn how that personal water consumption
impacts the community as a whole and how it really is important for conserving the environment.
- So President's Campus Climate Action Plan that has a goal of being carbon neutral by 2030
but in that plan there's also a number of sustainability initiatives, water being one of them.
The plan is to cut water usage at smith by 1.5 million gallons by 2015
and then decrease that by another million gallons by 2030.
So since the majority of the water use on campus is used in the houses,
we decided that house initiative was good so each house it would be a competition
- When we presented the idea of No Shave November to house council,
several people weren't thrilled about the name No Shave November.
So instead, we geared more towards shaving off shower time in our house
and so each minute you shave off, your house would get points.
So we put sign-up sheets in each bathroom so each student could keep track of their shower times
and how much time they were actually shaving off of their showers each day.
Our house decided to purchase inexpensive cooking timers the ones with the dials and the little buzzers
to put in each bathroom so that students could time their showers and see how long they're taking.
- How much more time do I have?
- Each student at the end of the month could see if they've improved, if they hadn't improved,
or just made them more aware of how much they consume.
- How long do you usually shower for? - Five to six minutes.
- Did you knock down any time during this month?
- I think I may have gotten down to like mostly five minutes ish
but I was definitely more aware of how long I was taking in the shower.
- You know I haven't shaved in, what date is it?
Well apparently it is the 29th, so 29 days, does that make sense?
- We do definitely apologize to facilities for the increased amount of drain cloggage
that occurred on December first when people started shaving.
- Excuse me have you heard about No Shave November?
- Shh we're in the library, but of course I've heard of it, who hasn't?
- The biggest message the biggest take home message from this campaign is you know,
don't shave, no matter what, where. - Cut!
The biggest take home message from this campaign
is you know help dining services and do the dishes in the shower.
- Cut!
- I think the biggest take home message from this campaign is stop showering for the sake of
- Cut!