Top tips to save energy in the SSL, and a chance to win 100 tubs of ice cream

Simple energy saving actions by Social Science Library staff and readers contributed to a 7% reduction in the Manor Road Building’s electricity usage for 2015/16 compared to the previous year.  Electricity use is one of the library’s main environmental impacts due to the carbon dioxide emissions resulting from power generation.  As well as the 766 ceiling lights in the library, there are 87 reader and staff computers, 5 photocopiers, plus our readers’ own laptops and mobile devices all contributing to the SSL’s ‘plugged load’.

Help the SSL save more energy and further reduce our carbon dioxide emissions by:

  • Switching off laptops and mobile devices when not in use
  • Unplugging chargers when devices are disconnected or fully charged
  • Enabling power saving settings on your laptop (this will help your battery last longer too)
  • Switching off the Reader PC monitors after use
  • Turning off the lights in the Discussion Rooms and Graduate Study Rooms when you leave

For more tips and to test your climate change knowledge try the Student Switch Off Climate Change Quiz.  You could win 100 tubs of ice cream for your college!

See the Greening the SSL web pages to find out more about what we have been doing to improve the library’s environmental sustainability.

To learn more about the University’s work on reducing energy usage see the Environmental Sustainability Report 2016.

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