Eco-Olympics Project

From Prof. Denis Collins, Edgewood College: During the Spring 2006 semester, the 24 students enrolled in my upper-level undergraduate "Social Responsibility in Business" course managed an Eco-Olympics among the five Residence Halls on campus. The purposes of the Eco-Olympics included:

(1) reducing the amount of heat, water and electricity consumed in each Residence Hall over a two-month period
(2) increasing awareness of environmental impacts 
(3) teaching project management skills
(4) teaching motivational skills for changing human behavior
(5) teaching team management skills

Read more about how students carried out the project by visiting the link below. 

Materials

• Eco-Olympics Project (http://one.aomonline.org/ONE_Web/Ideas_for_projects.html) Visit

Intended Audience and Usage

This is an idea for an assignment or project for students which was posted on the Academy of Management's Organizations and the Natural Environment website.