Texas State University – Enactus Chapter
It has been a great experience working with a group of Millennials from the McCoy College of Business, at Texas State via the Enactus Chapter, National Champions 2014.
This was GreenHatters larger PILOT for the CarbonGobbler. Within 6 months of seeding the program the reach has been to over 1500 students at Texas State University. The program has a target to save 684 MT of carbon emission over the next 8 month. The intent is to achieve and exceed these numbers overwhelmingly.
Texas State University has 37000 students and over 100 buildings on the Campus. We are hoping to attract a large portion of this population to adopt the CarbonGobbler.
We appreciate the support from the Texas State University Enactus Chapter who helped us:
o Test CarbonGobbler in a large user setting
o Recommend and draw out the Human Interface Design for CarbonGobbler, making it a pleasure to use the application
o Revamping our Websites content and providing a hosting solution
o Overall believing in the aspect and taking it up as a challenge to reduce emission at home and travel
We could not have done without the Wonderful team from Texas State University, McCoy College of Business and the Enactus program. Going forward we would want to reach out more Schools via the Enactus program to adopt CarbonGobbler and join in reducing their personal carbon responsibility.
ENACTUS
Enactus was originally founded in the United States in 1975 and the U.S. is now one of 36 countries from around the world that operates an Enactus program. The U.S. operates as a division of Enactus and with 533 universities and more than 16,800 student participants, it represents the single largest country operation. It is a priority country for the future growth and development of the organization. Enactus is a community of student, academic and business leaders committed to using the power of entrepreneurial action to enable human progress. We establish student programs on campuses across the nation. Enactus students apply business concepts to develop community outreach projects, transform lives and shape a better, more sustainable world. entrepreneurial—having the perspective to see an opportunity and the talent to create value from that opportunity; action—the willingness to do something and the commitment to see it through even when the outcome is not guaranteed; us—a group of people who see themselves connected in some important way; individuals that are part of a greater whole.
