In 2014, the Marine Lab Seawater Circulation Retrofit addressed Cal Poly Humboldt’s (Humboldt) most energy intensive building, the Telonicher Marine Lab. The lab hosts students and guests for educational purposes related to marine sciences. The seawater recirculation system transports ocean water into the building’s live marine exhibits.  Water must constantly move through the filtering system to simulate movement and mimic a natural marine setting. At the time of the proposal, the pumping system of the seawater circulation used two oversized pumps.

In 2013, OZZI reusable food containers and OZZI return machines were purchased. Food containers were administered to Humboldt members via an exchange token system in which students paid a small non-refundable fee for an OZZI token. The program was integrated into Dining Services so that fewer single-use containers are consumed, and the energy associated with producing and transporting them was displaced. 

In 2013, the Humboldt Energy Independence Fund (HEIF) allocated a little over $5,000 to fund HEIF Art (HArt) Day. The primary goal of HArt Day was to generate awareness about issues that HEIF values and to suggest alternative behavior changes that will assist the sustainability development of our campus as well as our planet.

In 2013, a two-year pilot of Zimride at Cal Poly Humboldt (Humboldt) was proposed. Zimride is a private university carpooling network for students, staff, faculty, and alumni. The program is designed to be a user-friendly ridesharing system for both daily commutes and long-distance travel.After the two year pilot program, the program was deemed successful. Parking and Commuter Services took over the management of this program. It is anticipated as of December 2020 the vendor will discontinue the service. 

In 2014, the HEIF committee allocated approximately $2,500 to the Cold Water Laundering Program which aimed to decrease hot water laundering among student residents by 50%. This initiative included surveying campus residents on their laundering habits, creating and installing signage in the resident laundry rooms to promote sustainable laundering habits, and converting some resident washing machines to cold water only.

This lighting LED retrofit in the Art Quad replaced all exterior canopy and wall pack light fixtures with LEDs in order to increase safety, lighting efficiency, and energy savings. The following buildings were included in this retrofit:Music A, Music B, Art A, Art B, Theater Arts, Siemens Hall

The objective of this project is to replace the exterior lighting in the Canyon, Cypress, Jolly Giant Commons, and the Hill with LEDs.

The project includes the removal of the existing ballasts at existing T8 luminaires and replacement of existing T8 lamps with LED retrofit kits to achieve the goal of decreased power consumption in the Science D building.

This project added 7 compost bins strategically placed around campus which allow for better accessibility to the campus community, ultimately reducing Humboldt’s impact on the landfill waste stream. This project also replaced 5 existing bins with a consistent style. Final additional exterior locations include: Natural Resources, Science D, Redwood Plaza, Art Quad, Founders Hall, Redwood Bowl, and Kinesiology & Athletics.  

This project provided funding to install a donated PV system, and monitoring equipment on the Schatz Energy Research Center building.