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Creating a Sustainable Campus

Creating a Sustainable Campus. This Way to Sustainability CSU at Chico March 7, 2013. With little or no funding!. Michael A Kane Associate Dean of Sciences & Mathematics, Sierra College Director, Sierra College Energy Technology Program

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Creating a Sustainable Campus

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  1. Creating a Sustainable Campus This Way to Sustainability CSU at Chico March 7, 2013 With little or no funding! Michael A Kane Associate Dean of Sciences & Mathematics, Sierra College Director, Sierra College Energy Technology Program President, Community College Sustainability Collaborative

  2. Where you are starting from and where are you going?

  3. What do you need to do? Awareness Education Action

  4. People do NOT like change

  5. How do you get started? Develop your Change Agent skills • Institutional Understanding • Personal vs. Positional Power • Multi-level Planning • Allies and Partnerships

  6. Navigating your organization Permission or Forgiveness Support Resources

  7. What can you do with limited or no resources or support? A LOT!!!

  8. The Sierra College Story We don’t do that hippy crap here!

  9. Sierra College Accomplishments • Energy Efficiency (pool, boilers, lighting, utility programs, LEED Bldgstrd, controlers, etc…) • Core Value #8 • Environmental Studies & Sustainability Program • PPA Covered Solar Arrays • Sierra College Sustainability Forum • Sustainable Action Planning Process • Sustainable Living Series • Planning for 10 Year Energy neutrality • Sustainability Fund

  10. Awareness • Seventh Generation Group - $0 • Student Clubs - $0 • Governance Presentations - $0 • Campus garden – low cost • Web Page, name, logo – staff time

  11. Education • Flex Activities – 0$ • Speakers - $0 to low cost • Sustainability Forum - $0 to low cost • Discussion Group/Book Club - $0 • Community Education or Free Classes - time • Web Page – staff time • Green Schools List-serve

  12. Action • Partnerships with facilities, community groups • Incorporating sustainability into the curriculum • Recycling programs • Earth Day Events

  13. Marketing/Leverage Don’t forget to market your work both internally and externally & leverage it to the next level

  14. Resources All of the resources discussed in this talk today and more are available online at the Community College Sustainability Collaborative website http://ccsustain.wordpress.com Look for the piece entitled: Chico Sustainability Conference

  15. Michael A Kane Associate Dean of Sciences & Mathematics Director, Energy Technology Program Sierra College mkane@sierracollege.edu (916) 660-7902 President Community College Sustainability Collaborative http://ccsustain.wordpress.com/ ccsustain@aol.com Twitter - @ccsustain

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