Carnegie Mellon Eco-Reps was started in the Fall of 2005 by Diane Loviglio as her Fifth Year Scholar Community Impact Project. It was modeled off University of Vermont's Eco-Reps, Tufts University's Eco-Reps and Harvard University's Resource Efficiency Program.
It started as a joint program between Green Practices and Housing and Dining Services and now is being transitioned into a Student Affairs program.
The goal of the program was to make students aware of their everyday lifestyle decisions and understand the effects an individual can have on the environment, but specifically in their residence hall, sorority, fraternity, or apartment building.
In a way, Eco-Reps act as environmental resident assistants, programming lectures, events, workshops and activities as well as hanging posters and having causal conversations with the peers in their house.
Diane's inverview on CmuTV is here: