Entry to the HKCS eXtreme Contest

This website is created as an entry to the HKCS eXtreme Contest, and is all about "sustainable campus".

This year theme: sustainable campus

The objective of the HKCS eXtreme Contest is to encourage students to use a balance of well-proven Web engineering principles coupled with good Web design guidelines to produce high quality Websites that follows Web standards and good usability/accessibility best practices. The theme of this year is "sustainable campus".

What does "sustainable campus" mean?

To understand the meaning of "sustainable campus", we should first find out the meaning of "sustainbale". The noun form of the term "sustainbale", namely "sustainability", often means varies things to different people. A common definition is:

meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs
- The United Nations

A Sustainable Campus addresses all the following elements simultaneously:

  • Improve: economic efficiency
  • Protect and Restore: ecological system
  • Enhance: well-being of all peoples

A Sustainable Campus: One small step towards saving the world

Video on Sustainable Campus. By: Brandon Overall

Statistics on Sustainable Campus

Average CO2 Emission of a Sustainable Campus
Source 06-07 Totals 07-08 Totals 08-09 Totals
* The data above is not actual.
Travel 2,123 2,012 1,945
Electricity 15,09 15,20 16,87
Natural Gas 123 234 456
Mobile 2 3 5

HKCS eXtreme Contest - Join Now!

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HKCS eXtreme Contest Agreement

In order to participate in the HKCS eXtreme Contest, the following statement must be added.

This website was created as an entry to Hong Kong Computer Society's "2010 eXtreme Web Designer Award" contest. The authors of this website agree to abide by all the rules and regulations of this contest as specified in: http://www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/~hwchun/extreme/

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