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Overcoming Barriers to Sustainability on College and University Campuses

Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. Overcoming Barriers to Sustainability on College and University Campuses. Tom Kimmerer Executive Director AASHE. A Short Story About Sustainability. Growing Coffee Technified Coffee (monoculture). Growing Coffee

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Overcoming Barriers to Sustainability on College and University Campuses

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  1. Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education Overcoming Barriers to Sustainability on College and University Campuses Tom Kimmerer Executive Director AASHE

  2. A Short Story About Sustainability

  3. Growing Coffee • Technified Coffee (monoculture)

  4. Growing Coffee • Shade Grown Coffee

  5. Buying Coffee • Shade Grown, Organic, Fair Trade vs. Commodity Coffee

  6. What is sustainability?

  7. What is sustainability?

  8. What is sustainability?

  9. A Sustainable Society is: Environmentally viable Economically Robust Socially Just & Equitable

  10. The decision process for individuals and institutions affects: • The global economy • The global environment • The social structure of communities

  11. The decision process for individuals and institutions affects: • The global economy • The global environment • The social structure of communities • Coffee is the world’s second largest commodity

  12. Why Colleges are Important The campus must be the laboratory in which we invent a sustainable future.

  13. Barriers to Sustainability The organization of colleges & universities is a significant barrier to sustainability

  14. Barriers to Sustainability The Landlord-Tenant Relationship

  15. Barriers to Sustainability The Landlord-Tenant relationship needs to be replaced with a collaborative learning relationship.

  16. Campus Collaboration When implementing sustainability programs, operators and academics need to be allies.

  17. Overcoming the Barriers - NAU

  18. Teaching the Campus Prof. Stephen Mead

  19. Teaching the Campus – Informal Education

  20. Teaching the Campus – The Sustainability Interpreter Interpreters create Banners, Signs, Posters Tours Videos

  21. Overcoming Barriers – People to People Gary Deason, Center for Sustainable Environments Mark Flynn, Executive Director, Capital Assets & Services

  22. Engaging Students

  23. Engaging Students • Teach Sustainability across the curriculum • Provide specialized courses and curricula • Model sustainable behavior in the classroom and on campus

  24. Engaging StudentsOberlin College

  25. Engaging Students • Focus the Nation • Teaching Event on climate • Jan. 31 2008 • Focusthenation.org • Campus Climate Challenge • Supports student activities in clean energy • Climatechallenge.org

  26. Engaging Students • Make students, staff, faculty aware participants, not passive recipients. • Give them information • Let them make choices

  27. Barriers to Sustainability Universities and their suppliers need new relationships

  28. Procurement by Collaboration • Buying stuff in new ways • Shift from command purchasing to collaboration • Shift from bid packages to RFPs • Viewing providers as collaborators • ASU and Aramark

  29. Overcoming barriers • The major barriers to sustainability are in human behavior and relationships, not in science and technology. • Segments of the campus need to learn new relationships

  30. Over 400 College and University Presidents have committed their campuses to reversing climate change. • The ACUPCC will be the great accelerator of campus sustainability “More than ever, universities must take leadership roles to address the grand challenges of the twenty-first century, and climate change is paramount among these” - Michael Crow, President, Arizona State University

  31. Last Thoughts • In any economic revolution, there is bifurcation • Those who change and thrive • Those who resist and fail • Sustainability requires both small, incremental steps and large leaps • Don’t assume that change is linear

  32. Opportunities Abound Colleges and Universities are the laboratories in which we invent a sustainable future.

  33. www.aashe.org www.presidentsclimatecommitment.org Thanks to Jim Buizer, Tony Cortese, Lee DeBaillie, Gary Deason, Mark Flynn, Hunter Lovins, Dave Newport and others for inspiration and help with content. Special thanks to the great AASHE staff: Julian Dautremont-Smith, Judy Walton, Sam Hummel, John Johnson.

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