Sustainability at UC Santa Cruz Aurora Winslade Sustainability Coordinator, UCSC Fall 2007

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: tboggia@ucsc.edu • Student Environmental Center

Wednesdays 6:30pm College 8 Red Room

• Education for Sustainable Living Program

Mondays 6:30 World Café - Kresge College