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Sustainabilityat UC Santa Cruz
Aurora WinsladeSustainability Coordinator, UCSC
Fall 2007
Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world.
-- Rachel Carson
The problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking that created them.
-- Albert Einstein
Institutional Change
Institutional Change• Governance
• Planning
• Policy
• Procedure
• Behavior, culture, and choices
Information Coordination Collaboration
Examples of Transforming UCSC
• Student Involvement
• UC Policy on Sustainable Practices
• Sustainability Office and the Campus Sustainability Subcommittee
• Campus Sustainability Assessment
• Climate Protection
Student Involvement
• Passing of the first Regent’s Green Building Policy & Renewable Energy Standard in 2003-2004
• Student fees:– Student bus pass (1972)– $240,000 annual funding for sustainability
projects (2003-2004)– 100% renewable energy (2005-2006)
UC Policy on Sustainable Practices
• Sustainable Transportation
• Climate Protection Practices
• Sustainable Purchasing
• Sustainable Operations
• Green Building & Clean Energy– Existing Buildings, New Construction, and
Commercial Interiors
Sustainability Office & the Campus Sustainability
Subcommittee
• Two-year pilot program to create a permanent Sustainability Office on campus
• Campus-wide committee to help integrate sustainability into all aspects of campus life
Campus Sustainability Assessment
• Transformation - Information, Culture, Governance
• Indicators:– Transportation, Water, Food, Waste and
Recycling, Energy and Climate, Purchasing, Buildings, Land Use, Curriculum, Governance, Campus Life
Climate Protection at UCSC
• Climate Action Planning and policy commitments
• Focus the Nation: January 31st, 2008
College 9/10 Multi-Purpose Rm
Get Involved!
Get Involved!
• Campus Earth Summit Presents:
Focus the Nation: January 31st, 2008 College 9/10 Multi-Purpose Room
Email: [email protected] • Student Environmental Center
Wednesdays 6:30pm College 8 Red Room
• Education for Sustainable Living Program
Mondays 6:30 World Café - Kresge College