The Student Led Sustainability Movement

AT SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY: 2005-2011

THE STUDENT LEDSustainability Movement

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FORWARDOver the last decade, the theoretical and practical concept knownas sustainability has emerged onto the local, national and interna-tional stage. It is a concept that traces its early roots to the UnitedStates civil rights movement throughout the 1960’s and later dur-ing the environmentalist movement in the early 1970’s. For almost 20years, the concept of sustainability remained dormant as its very defi-nition ran contrary to the mindset of many Americans throughout the1980’s and 1990’s. However, the inclinations of many Americans, es-pecially younger generations, is beginning to evolve and shift to em-brace old concepts and new ideas. This shift has occurred for a varietyof economic, social and political reasons, such as an increase in globalincome inequities, chemical and toxic exposure, natural resource de-pletion, economic stagflation and debt, climate change, overpopula-tion, flora and fauna extinction, war and an increase in the cost ofliving and social services with an overall decline in both.

Realizing that finding and implementing solutions to settle theseissues cannot be achieved by the same level thinking and mindsetwe have had over the previous decades, American citizens, espe-cially younger citizens, have begun to think outside of the norm.They have formulated a different way of perceiving these problemsin order to find practical solutions, defining the very concept of sus-tainability. This historic report and work in progress explains whatSan Diego State University students in collaboration with faculty,staff and administrators have accomplished by utilizing the conceptof sustainability. More importantly, this report illustrates a remark-able story of progress and transformation at San Diego State Uni-versity (SDSU) that has just begun and one that will continue formany years.

Social Justice EnvironmentalResponsibility

EconomicProsperity

TheTriple Bottom Line of Sustainability

WHAT IS SUSTAINABILITY?• Meeting the needs of today without comprising the

needs of tomorrow by preserving and using finite re-sources responsibly, efficiently and intelligently to en-sure social equity and prosperity

• An interdisciplinary and holistic approach to problemsby using innovative and progressive strategies to findsolutions

• Thinking outside of the box to solve today's problemsand sustain life as we know it

• It’s about the decisions you make and how it affects oth-ers and the world around you

Categories:Waste, Cultural Diversity, Education, Health, Ethics, En-ergy, Environment, Economics, Society, History, Water,Politics, Science... LIFE


KEY PEOPLE IN THE SUSTAINABILITY MOVEMENTSpring 2005:

• Oliver Anderson, Enviro-Business Society (e3) Founder• Benjamin Crawford, Enviro-Business Society (e3) Founder• Omar Ortega, Enviro-Business Society (e3) Founder

Fall 2005:• Heather Honea, e3 Faculty Advisor• Bill Lekas, SDSU Energy Manager• Steve Lincoln, SDSU Waste Management Coordinator

Fall 2006:• Ian Bevan, e3 President

Spring 2007:• Ian Bevan, A.S. Green Commissioner• Amanda Costa, e3 President• Erica Johnson, e3 President• Justin Motika, A.S. Vice President of Finance-elect• James Poet, A.S. President-elect

Spring 2008:• Glen Brandenburg, A.S. Director of Mission Bay Aquatic Center/Sustainability Coordinator• Erin Lannon, A.S. University Affairs Board Member• Grant Mack, A.S. University Affairs Board Member

Summer 2008:• Grant Garske, A.S.Vice President of Finance• Rae Gurne, e3 President• Tara Kelly, e3 Executive Member• Matt Nelson, e3 Executive Member

Fall 2008:• Geoffrey Chase, SDSU Dean of Undergraduate Studies• Rae Gurne, e3 President• Danny Ozstriecher, A.S. Vice President of External Affairs

Spring 2009:• Tyler Boden, A.S. President-elect• Joyce Byun, A.S. Council Member• Lynn Cacha, A.S. Aztec Center Director• Isaac Castro, A.S. Council Member• Natalie Colli, A.S. Vice President of University Affairs-elect

TABLE OF CONTENTSThe Enviro-Business Society

Mission Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22005-2006 Milestones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Spring 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Fall 2005. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Spring 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32006-2007 Milestones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Fall 2006. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Spring 2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42007-2008 Milestones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Fall 2007. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Spring 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7The Associated Students Green Love

Sustainability Advisory Board Purpose . . . . . . . 9

2008-2009 Green Love Milestones. . . . . . . . . . . . . 92008-2009 e3 Milestones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Summer 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Fall 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Spring 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112009-2010 Green Love Milestones . . . . . . . . . . . 152009-2010 e3 Milestones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Summer 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Fall 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17Spring 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202010-2011 Green Love Milestones . . . . . . . . . . . 232010-2011 e3 Milestones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23Summer 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23Fall 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24Spring 2011 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28Report Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30


• Dan Cornthwaite, A.S. Executive Director• Sean Devlin, A.S. Modern Space Planning Committee Member• Sarah Elkind, SDSU History Professor• Erin Lannon, e3 President• Jeremy Katz, A.S. Executive Vice President-elect• Dola Kuljeet, e3 Executive Member• Grant Mack, A.S. Council Member• Paul Melchior, Aztec Shops Director of Dining Services• Matt Nelson, e3 Executive Member• James Poet, A.S. President• Joy Salvatin, A.S. Executive Vice President• Bob Schulz, SDSU University Architect• Drew Smith, e3 Executive Member• R.D. Williams, Aztec Shops Director of Campus Relations and Commercial Development

Summer 2009:• Amber Alix, A.S. Cultural Arts & Special Events (CASE) Representative• Mina Azim, A.S. Events Commissioner• Jenn Bjorklund, A.S. Student Organization Commissioner• Tyler Boden, A. S. President• Glen Brandenburg, A.S. Sustainability Coordinator• Alyssa Bruni, A. S. Vice President of External Affairs• Jamie Lynn Cochran, A.S. Programs Coordinator• Natalie Colli, A.S. Vice President of University Affairs• Iris Crowe, A.S. Assistant Programs Coordinator• Holly Hellerstedt, e3 Vice President• Tara Kelly, e3 CEO• Erin Lannon, e3 President• Grant Mack, A.S. Sustainability Commissioner

Fall 2009:• Annie Bessinger, Former e3 Executive Officer• Matt Nelson, Former e3 Executive Officer• Rae Gurne, Former e3 Executive Officer• Kevin Faulconer, City of San Diego Council Member District 2• Mariah Hudson, Assistant Director for the SDSU Center for Regional Sustainability• Christine Kehoe, California State Senator 39th District• James Kitchen, SDSU Vice President for Student Affairs• Daniel Sullivan, Sullivan Solar Power President• Stephen L. Weber, SDSU President• Brian Wynne, Aztec Shops General Manager of Concessions

Spring 2010:• Tara Kelly, A.S. Sustainability Commissioner-elect• Grant Mack, A.S. President-elect• Ignacio Prado, A.S. Vice President of Finance• Berneice Rodriquez, e3 President• Lenny Sczechowicz, e3 President

Summer 2010:• Jazmin Allen, GreenFest Executive Committee Public Relations Specialist• Daphney Bitanga, A.S. Assistant Programs Coordinator• Janelle Fejeran, A.S. Diversity Commissioner• Sean Kashanchi, A.S. Executive Vice President• Candice Luistro, A.S. Vice President of University Affairs• Erin Parsons, A.S. CASE Representative• Vinod Sasidharan, Hospitality & Tourism Professor

Fall 2010:• Mina Azim, Greenfest Committee• Debbie Burchianti, Aztec Shops Associate Director• Cord Claffey, A.S. Council Member• Alexandria Diaz, Aztec Shops Dining Services Marketing Manager• Tara Kelly, A.S. Sustainability Commissioner• Paul Melchior, Aztec Shops Director of Dining Services• Donna Tusack, Aztec Shops CEO

Spring 2011:• Morgan Chan, A.S. Green Love Board Member• Aaron Choy, A.S. Green Love Board Vice Chair


The Enviro-Business SocietyMISSION STATEMENTThe Enviro-Business Society is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit student organization at SDSU that offers students of all majors a unique and benefi-cial way to make a positive environmental impact on campus, in the community and especially in business. The Enviro-Business Society(e3) promotes modern business practices that maximize profit but also a sustainable future. The e3 believes that at the core of this rev-olutionary new business model there are three pillars, which must always be upheld: ecology, ethics and economics. These are the stan-dards by which the e3 operates and the ideas they try to promote.

2005-2006MILESTONES• Annual Theme: Re-DEFINE/Re-CREATE • Membership Growth• Organization Founded • Campus Recognition• Infrastructure created • Collaboration with SDSU Physical Plant• Earth Day (Eco-Fashion Show/Eco-Art Gallery) at SDSU Sold Out!

SPRING 2005The Enviro-Business Society (e3) was founded in February of 2005 by Benjamin Crawford. Working with classmates and Sigma Chi Fra-ternity brothers Oliver Anderson and Omar Ortega, these three students launched what soon became one of the most progressive or-ganizations at SDSU. These revolutionary minds started the first and only chapter of e3 (ecology, ethics, economics). At the time e3 was

the only environmental organization at SDSU since the 1970’s, at-tracting a diverse group of students interested in the ecological, socialand economic forces that defines sustainability. With this in mind andthe passion to make a difference at SDSU, Benjamin, Oliver and Omarbegan planting the seeds for the organization’s infrastructure.

The organization was founded with several key objectives:• Stimulate and develop student interest in the various socially and

environmentally responsible practices• Create a forum for environmentally and socially conscious busi-

nesses• Coordinate philanthropic events in the San Diego community that

emphasize e3’s mission• Actively identify and execute campus-wide action initiatives consis-

tent with e3’s mission• Share knowledge and business practices with students, faculty and

staff• Make a REAL impact on the campus and in the community

FALL 2005In Fall 2005, e3 founder and President Benjamin Crawford recruitedSDSU marketing professor, Heather Honea to serve as the faculty ad-visor for the organization. Professor Honea was instrumental in as-sisting Benjamin by developing plans for the organization’sinfrastructure as well as assisting in the overall creation of the Enviro-Business Society theme for the year. The theme was coined Re-DE-FINE/Re-CREATE in which e3 would focus on redefining and recreatinga perception that business can be the solution behind human and en-vironmental suffering instead of a contributor. e3 launched theirtheme by creating flash marketing advertisements for meetings thatincluded images of pesticide crop dusters, child labor in foreigncountries and other eye-catching images to create awareness aroundenvironmental and social irresponsibility in business. During thiscampaign e3 also redefined and recreated their organization, calling

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themselves “Club e3.” Club e3 marketed itself as a next generation student organization and the future of business. Club e3spread awareness on campus quickly with the Re-DEFINE/Re-CREATE theme, establishing a solid membership base for therest of the year. Club e3 also began working with the SDSU Waste Management Coordinator, Steve Lincoln and Energy Man-ager, Bill Lekas, fostering a relationship that would be critical for Club e3’s later success in future years.

SPRING 2006By early spring of 2006, Club e3 began gearing up for the firstEarth Day celebration in over three decades at SDSU. Earth Day isan international holiday celebrated on April 22nd to inspireawareness and appreciation for the Earth's natural environment.Earth Day 2006 was a huge success for Club e3, establishing theorganization’s credibility for fun, educational, impactful and well-attended events. Perhaps the most successful event during theEarth Day celebration was the Re-DEFINE eco-fashion show. Clube3 and eco-friendly clothing designers from New York, Los Ange-les, San Diego, San Francisco and Montreal, Canada collaboratedto “Re-DEFINE” the myth that organically grown fabrics and recy-cled clothing cannot seduce the high-fashion runways of theworld. For the first time ever, students, hair and makeup artistsand fashion designers successfully produced the largest educa-tional eco-fashion show for a sold-out SDSU audience.

In addition to the eco-fashion show, e3 hosted the “Re-CREATE:Art Gallery,” an adjoining eco-event, which featured gritty andeco-friendly recycled, found and sustainable digital art. The sold-out event forced creators to turn away a line of over 150 students, when the 500 person capacity was reached. The collabora-tive efforts of Club e3 general members and executive officers yielded a truly inspiring end product. A highly profitable silentauction, fair-trade coffee bar, portable solar power generators, recycled art show and organic/recycled fashion, were all ele-ments displaying the ease and practicality of making a difference.

2006-2007MILESTONES• Annual Theme: GENERATION GREEN • Membership grew to 250 general members• MTV eco-Challenge • Increased Amount of Educational Events• Relationships with campus stakeholders • Week-long Earth Day: Earth Week (G2EW)• Campus-wide Recycling Bin Expansion • Executive Board Course Credit created

FALL 2006With Benjamin’s graduation in spring of 2006, Ian Bevan became the new Club e3 President for the 2006-2007 academic year.The common theme for his term was GREEN GENERATION to promote that students are the change enablers for the rest of theworld. This generation being the green change that society needs. Ian and the Club e3 executive officers submitted a GREENGENERATION proposal to MTV for the eco-Challenge project that would enable Club e3 to drastically expand campus sus-tainability awareness and knowledge to the masses through network building within SDSU’s infrastructure. While the or-ganization was not selected as a winner for MTV eco-Challenge project submittal, all of the hard work of the executive officerspaid off because it created a foundation and vision for the organization’s immediate future.

Club e3 outlined the different avenues for spreading knowledge to the GREEN GENERATION through educational events,phenomenal guest speakers and campus outreach, all with students, faculty and staff members contributing. Ian worked

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with faculty advisor, Heather Honea, to institutionalize theClub e3 executive board members as a part of an upper-di-vision business marketing course. This course allowed stu-dents to gain educational credits for their environmentalawareness research and activities on campus. With the busi-ness marketing course in place, the Club e3 executive boardgrew at a rapid pace and was soon up to 20 students whoengaged other students on campus, expanding generalmembership well into the hundreds. Under Ian’s leadership,Club e3 also strengthened the working relationship withSDSU’s Physical Plant to do various projects, including a fra-ternity and sorority recycling contest. To keep Club e3 mem-bers engaged and work-oriented, executive officers hostedmonthly beach clean ups and worked with MontgomeryMiddle School students to teach them about recycling.

Of particular note under Ian’s leadership of Club e3 was theGlobal Warming Action Summit, where Club e3 brought in cli-mate scientists, research analysts and professors across multi-ple disciplines to explain the science behind global warmingand its effects to the campus community. Club e3 also imple-mented a guerilla marketing “Shock Trash” campaign, wherethey put up huge facts around the campus about waste oncampus and globally, to make students more aware of their in-efficient waste and the significance of reducing, reusing andrecycling. In Aztec Center, e3 members sorted through trashcans, showing students all of the waste that could have beenrecycled. Ian also started a continued tradition for Club e3 ex-ecutive board officers to travel to the annual Green Festival inSan Francisco, CA. At the event, Club e3 members were able tocreate substantial partnerships with over a 100 green busi-nesses, organizations, philanthropic groups and other studentsacross the state.

SPRING 2007In the spring of 2007, Ian began strengthening Club e3’s re-lations with the Associated Students, Aztec Shops, the Divi-sion of Undergraduate Studies, KPBS and faculty on campuswho were relating sustainability to the topic they wereteaching in their classrooms. Ian brought together profes-sors from all disciplines to engage in a monthly casual GreenLunch Bag series. Along with students, the early innovatorsdiscussed sustainability at large, ideas for the campus andhow to make an impact with all the faculty, staff and stu-dents who were grasping on to this new movement. TheGreen Lunch Bag series group eventually evolved into the

SDSU University Senate Sustainability Committee.The Club e3 executive board worked together tirelessly for the entire spring 2007 semester to plan Generation Green Earth

Week (G2EW) the week of April 22nd. The week-long seven day event consisted of a Green Film Festival, Organic Food Tasting,a Global Warming Action Summit, a Green Lifestyles Fair, a concert with headline band Eek-a-Mouse followed by a weekendbeach cleanup and the Earth Day Fair in Balboa Park. Club e3 recruited many volunteers for Generation Green Earth Week inwhich membership expanded by 440% between 2005 and 2006.

In May of 2006, Club e3 created the “Healthy Cooking Oil at SDSU” Petition stating:

We, the undersigned– DEMAND – that the Board of Directors of Aztec Shops Ltd. – immediately and permanently replacethe Partially Hydrogenated Cooking Oils, currently used, with Natural (non-hydrogenated) Vegetable oil. By signing thispetition you can make a difference in how Aztec Shops prepares food at SDSU. As the EXCLUSIVE food provider at SDSU,it is their responsibility to provide students, faculty and staff with dining options that do not hold UNDENIABLE HEALTHRISKS for those that eat there. Making your voice heard is essential.

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At the end of the year, Amanda Costa and Erica Johnson, Club e3 executive officers, became the first female and first co-presidentsof e3. Their presidential team was dubbed “Team AmErica.” Soon after Amanda and Erica’s election, Ian was approached by in-coming Associated Students Vice President of Finance, JustinMotika, to help formulate an initiative that he was interested increating for the student body through the Associated Students(A.S.); the initiative known as “Green Love.” Before Ian embarkedon this initiative, he was asked by incoming A.S. President, JamesPoet, to serve on his President’s Cabinet as the first A.S. GreenCommissioner; Ian accepted the offer.

2007-2008MILESTONES• Annual Theme: Ecological Footprints (Lifestyle Behaviors)• Bike Lanes Initiative• First female and duo-presidents,“Team AmErica”• Sustainability Trips• Sustainability Day• EarthDay08@SDSU• Recycling Initiative

FALL 2007In the beginning of fall of 2007, Ian Bevan was approached by theUSA Network to do a television spotlight on the growing sustain-ability movement at SDSU. The Club e3 presidents Erica Johnsonand Amanda Costa quickly plunged into the organization by work-ing with the new executive board to organize a huge productionevent for the USA Network less than one month into the semes-ter. The event became known as Sustainability Day, September18th, 2007. Club e3 worked tirelessly contacting local businesses,organizations, held auditions for models, sewed new clothing fromold items and worked with the University to secure space on cam-pus. The event was a success, with opening remarks from the Deanof Undergraduate Studies, Geoffrey Chase, another green fashionshow and about twenty local businesses and organizations.

After the new Club e3 executive board established themselvesfor the year with the planning and coordination of SustainabilityDay, the passionate students almost immediately started planningfor the implementation of other sustainability initiatives. Erica andAmanda collaborated with Ian to develop the Club e3 theme forthe year, Ecological Footprints, as well as operational sustainableefficiencies, policies and purchasing procedures for the A.S. auxil-iary. They also began work on an expansion of a campus-wide re-cycling program. Implementing such a program required Club e3members to transverse the entire campus and create a compre-hensive map illustrating every single outdoor trash bin in com-parison to every outdoor recycling bin. The ratio of trash bins torecycling bins turned out to be 15 to 1. The map clearly demon-strated that there were very few recycling bins on campus whichwas a major inconvenience for the campus community to find arecycling bin on campus. Erica and Amanda joined in a meetingwith Ian, James Poet and SDSU President Dr. Stephen L. Weber topresent their findings. With some assistance from Steve Lincoln,the University Waste Management Coordinator, the students wereable to report the potential savings in tipping costs for convertingtrash bins to recycling bins. With overwhelming approval fromPresident Weber, one half of the outdoor trash bins on campus

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were converted to recycling bins, saving the campus thousands of dol-lars and increasing efficiencies on campus. The project was imple-mented the following spring.

Given that the theme for the year was centered on assisting thecampus community to lessen their environmental impact, Club e3began focusing their efforts on alternative transportation on campus.e3 decided that they were going to start an alternative transportationmovement on campus. In November, Club e3 hosted a bike crusade, apeaceful demonstration where students on campus were informed torally for the support of alternative transportation methods on and nearcampus by riding their skateboards and bikes throughout the campus.The attendance of the event included 50-70 students holding posters,signs and megaphones. At the time Club e3 was not aware that theevent would turn into a full campus-wide protest. Club e3 executiveboard members led the group of students along the exterior of thecampus with their bikes and skateboards. They then conducted amarch in one cohesive line throughout all the main walkways of thecampus where it was illegal to ride bikes and skateboards accordingto campus policy. Chants of “burn fat, not oil” were heard by students,faculty and staff across the campus. It disrupted classrooms and meet-ings around the campus as many students ran up and joined the crowdin the bike crusade frenzy.

After the bike crusade, Club e3 quickly packed their bags to head fortheir annual trip to Green Festival in San Francisco. This time, over 15 Clube3 executive board members attended the trip together. At the time, itwas the largest sustainability conference in the world. Club e3 executiveboard members attended the business fair during the day and touredsustainable eateries and facilities throughout the city of San Francisco atnight. They also visited the world’s largest Leadership in Energy and En-vironmental Design (LEED) Platinum certified facility, the California Acad-

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emy of Sciences, in its construction phase. All the Club e3 ex-ecutive board members left inspired.

When Club e3 executive board members returned, theystarted preparing for the organization’s largest annual eventEarth Day, themed as EARTHDAY08@SDSU.

Meanwhile, Ian worked with Justin Motika, A.S. Vice Pres-ident of Finance and other student representatives to de-velop a student programming referendum that wouldincrease student fees by $20 to fund six different initiatives,including A.S. sustainable facility upgrades and a week-longspring sustainability festival. The student programming ref-erendum was called the Enhance, Evolve, Innovate Referen-dum. Before the end of the fall semester Club e3, under Ericaand Amanda’s leadership continued to meet with campusfaculty and staff to discuss incorporating sustainability intothe curriculum and to persuade Aztec Shops to ban styro-foam due the human health risk and environmental harm theproduct causes. Erica and Amanda also began formulatingplans to present to the A.S. Council an alternative trans-portation initiative that included possible routes for poten-tial bike lanes on campus.

SPRING 2008In the spring of 2008, Club e3 worked tirelessly on their an-nual Earth Day event. Preparation was endless; meetings withcampus officials, public safety, fire marshals, businesses, book-ing musical artists and marketing. Club e3 also held anotherpopular bike crusade on campus to continue support forbike lanes on campus. Erica and Amanda collaborated withthe A.S. University Affairs Board and the A.S. Council to passthe Resolution in Support of the Creation of a Bicycle Laneon the San Diego State University Campus. Erica andAmanda worked with freshman A.S. University Affairs Boardmembers Grant Mack and Erin Lannon to successfully passthe resolution, which passed with little opposition by the A.S.Council on March 26th, 2008.

In March, the A.S. launched the Enhance, Evolve, InnovateReferendum. Student representatives, student board mem-bers and Club e3 members alike made presentations through-out the campus and engaged in grassroots marketing toinform students about the initiative. The Enhance, Evolve, In-novate Referendum passed by (64.6 %) and allowed the A.S.to move forward with the six initiatives specified in the ref-erendum; including A.S. sustainability facility upgrades anda week-long sustainability spring festival.

To assist with the implementation of the A.S. sustainabil-ity facility upgrades, Erica began serving as the interim A.S.Green Commissioner. Immediately, Erica began workingclosely with Justin Motika and Glen Brandenburg, the A.S.Mission Bay Aquatic Center Director to create the A.S. GreenLove Sustainability Advisory Board that would be responsiblefor administering the funds allocated for sustainability proj-ects. Soon, the A.S. Council was presented with the finalizedcharter for the Green Love Sustainability Advisory Board andwas approved by the A.S. Council.

For Earth Day 2008, Club e3 created sponsorship packets,charged businesses to attend, sold merchandise and workedwith the A.S. Cultural Arts and Special Events Board (CASE).

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Club e3 was also allocated $10,000 from the SDSU Presidential Leadership Fund thanks to President Weber. Club e3 membersheld signs that stated “Keep your money, I want change” to promote the events. The tagline for Earth Day became “Move clean,live green”as it encouraged and incentivized students to use alternative transportation to and from campus. The event was thelargest student organization event to occur at the campus in decades. Over 200 local sustainable businesses attended the En-viro-Business Fair that lasted from morning to afternoon. Media from all over the region came to broadcast all the students’ ac-tivities. Electric cars, hybrid busses and other sustainable vehicles took over the walkway stage. Shocking environmentalawareness campaigns engulfed the campus. A cultural drum circle took place in the morning and a hip hop female artist groupperformed over lunch. A green building summit occurred in the afternoon, where Club e3 partnered with the Real Estate Soci-ety student organization. Students received extra credit for attending the day-long event from professors. In the evening, a con-cert took place on the Aztec Green, next to the trolley station, a location that had never before been used for an event but

served as a perfect natural amphitheater. Award-winning DJDonald Glaude performed followed by reggae sensation Re-belution. By the end of the concert over 4,000 students at-tended the concert, all completely organized by Club e3 withadministrative assistance from the A.S.

After Earth Day 2008, Club e3 began transitions for the fol-lowing year and Erica focused a majority of her time on organ-izing the A.S. Green Love Sustainability Advisory Board.To assistin her efforts, she reached out to A.S. University Affairs Boardmembers and Enhance, Involve, Innovate Referendum market-ing leads Grant Mack and Erin Lannon. Grant became the A.S.Green Love Sustainability Advisory Board Vice Chair and ErinLannon became one of the first voting members of the boardand joined Club e3 on their executive board.

By the end of the year, Club e3 became known to Presi-dent Weber as the largest and fastest growing student or-ganization on campus. Club e3 won the “Commitment toService” and “Outstanding Spirit” at the SDSU CommunityService Awards and received the prestigious“Student Organ-ization of the Year” at the A.S. Aztec Achievement Awards.

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The Associated StudentsGreen Love Sustainability Advisory Board &The Enviro-Business SocietyPURPOSEThe purpose of this Associated Students Board shall be to advise the A.S. Council regarding the A.S. sustainability initiatives, programs andservices designed to promote broad awareness of sustainability issues to SDSU students. Specifically, the Board will:

• Review and make recommendations regarding policies, programs and procedures to encourage and promote the A.S. Council’s sus-tainability goals

• Assist in communicating the A.S. Council’s sustainability goals, initiatives, programs and services within the A.S. organization, to SDSUclubs and student organizations and to the campus community

• Identify the Board’s best efforts to address student sustainability interests, concerns and ideas by tracking trends and by collaborat-ing with “green” student organizations and other campus departments and groups engaged in promoting sustainable issues on theSDSU campus.

• Implement sustainability initiatives through programs and projects as recommended to the A.S. Council (added spring 2010)

2008-2009 A.S. GREEN LOVE MILESTONES• Established the A.S. sustainability programs • Created Greeks Going Green• Allocated first $250,000 to A.S. sustainability facility upgrades • Green travel• Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum Resolution

2008-2009 e3MILESTONES• Annual Theme: Sustainable Partnerships • Earth Day: Farmers’ Market• Bike lane study • Started campus Styrofoam ban

SUMMER 2008With the criteria set for the A.S. Green Love Sustainability AdvisoryBoard (Green Love Board), A.S. Green Commissioner Erica Johnsonbegan finalizing the Board’s structure. Erica recruited over 50 studentsto join the Board. There were four students serving as environmentalstudent organization representatives, including three from Club e3 andone from the Association of Environmental Professionals. Much of thesummer consisted of Erica working with Glen Brandenburg, the GreenLove advisor, to devise different strategies to implement the $250,000that was allocated to the Green Love Board to direct toward A.S. sus-tainability facility projects. To secure the funding for future years andprevent the fund from being used for other initiatives, the unofficialGreen Love project policy was enacted stating that “the $250,000 al-located each year to the Green Love Sustainability Advisory Board issubject to final approval by the Associated Students Council and canonly be directed toward brick and mortar sustainability upgrades/pro-jects to the Associated Students operated facilities.”With the policy inplace, Erica and Glen, along with the Green Love Board, created a proj-ect spreadsheet that prioritized sustainability projects based on cost,savings, environmental impact, rebates and operation costs. The GreenLove project spreadsheet allowed the board to justify their recom-mendations on which projects to move forward with in the future. The

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first projects voted on by the Green Love Board were the Aztec Recreation Center lighting efficiency upgrade, high efficiencytoilets, waterless urinals and low flow faucets within Aztec Center and the Aztec Recreation Center, the Mission Bay AquaticCenter water recycling and reuse system, a 41kw solar photovoltaic array at the Mission Bay Aquatic Center and phase I of theAquaplex 124 kw solar photovoltaic array. Once the projects were determined for the year Glen immediately went to work col-laborating with SDSU Physical Plant, SDSU Facilities Planning, Design and Construction, the A.S. Directors and outside consult-ants.

With the Green Love projects determined for the school year, Erica decided that the Green Love initiative needed to expandand not just include projects but programs as well that would be facilitated by the Green Love Board. During the summer Ericaproposed her program ideas to the A.S. Executive Committee and was awarded funding for the Sustainability Educational Aware-ness Campaign. The program’s purpose was to educate the student body by purchasing sustainability manufactured items topass out to students and educate them about the importance of living an environmentally responsible lifestyle.

Erica attended the California State University, University of California and California Community College Sustainability Conferencewith the A.S. President James Poet, Vice President of Finance, Grant Garske and Glen. Club e3 members also attended the conference

with the A.S. representatives to learn more aboutwhat other California universities were doing in re-gard to sustainability initiatives on their respectedcampuses. The conference proved to be an eye-opening experience for the SDSU students and al-lowed Erica to teach the officers aboutsustainability and how projects and programscould be implemented at SDSU.

FALL 2008At the start of the fall 2008 semester, Erica taskedGrant to organize the board into different sub-committees to discuss ideas centered on sus-tainability programs and seek different avenuesfor implementation. Grant was also tasked to im-plement the Green Love Sustainability Educa-tional Awareness Campaign throughout theentire year. The sub-committees created werethe Internal Outreach sub-committee, ExternalOutreach sub-committee, Residence Hall sub-committee and Student Organization sub-com-mittee. With direction from Erica, Grant startedthe Sustainability Educational Awareness Cam-paign in October, which consisted of boardmembers tabling every Wednesday from 9 a.m.-3 p.m., passing out sustainable products and ed-ucating the student body about the concept ofsustainability, the importance and the use of theproducts. In November, Erica and DannyOzstriecher, the A.S. Vice President of External Af-fairs, were invited by the Dean of UndergraduateStudies Geoffrey Chase to attend the Associationfor the Advancement of Sustainability Higher Ed-ucation (AASHE). Dean Chase has been a longtime sustainability advocate and remains aprominent figure in AASHE. AASHE provides re-sources, professional development and a net-work of support to enable institutions of highereducation to model and advance sustainabilityin everything they do, from governance and op-erations to education and research. The confer-ence allowed Danny and Erica to interact withfaculty, staff and students across the nation, giv-ing them better insight about all that sustain-ability encompasses.

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While the A.S. Green Love Board began building its repoire on campusand developing itself as a credible board, Club e3 now termed “e3” underthe leadership of President Rae Gurne, continued to develop its working re-lationship with local sustainable business and media partners that partic-ipated in Earth Day the previous semester, thus the theme for the year wascoined Sustainable Partnerships. E3 also began collaborating with newlocal businesses. The on-going collaboration allowed e3 to increase itspublic relations in the local area and bring sustainable awareness to thecommunity. At this time, e3 also became an official chapter of the Califor-nia Student Sustainability Coalition (CSSC), a state-wide student networkto collaborate on sustainability-related projects and programs. Joining theCSSC allowed e3 to share with the rest of the state all of the great sustain-ability initiatives occurring at SDSU. Due to e3’s representation on the A.S.Green Love Board, e3 was able to work with Erica to secure funding for theBike and Skateboard Safety Study. The A.S. hired landscape architecturalfirm KTU+A to commission the study. E3 worked closely with KTU+Athroughout the rest of the year to commission surveys and gathered datafor the study being compiled. With an emphasis on relationship buildingand activities, e3 held its first-ever Green Career Expo on-campus, with thehope of promoting alternative job paths to students beyond the tradi-tional corporate and began formulating plans to implement a weeklyfarmers’ market on campus in collaboration with Aztec Shops.

SPRING 2009In spring of 2009, e3 continued its theme of forgingpartnerships and alliances on and off-campus, in-creasing visibility of the organization and providinge3 with the tools necessary to run large, sustainableevents with a very small budget. Working with theSDSU student organization, the American MarketingAssociation, e3 promoted going completely paperlessat meetings and events to other student organiza-tions focusing on the waste and ineffectiveness of fly-ers and instead teaching them about sustainablymarketing practices, like going digital and reusing orrecycling materials. E3 even created their own “GreenOrg. Award” for the A.S. Associated Business StudentCouncil (ABSC) Future Rising Business Leaders cele-

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bration (FRBLs) to encourage student organizations to embrace sustainable practices. To show they were serious, e3 moved away frompaper flyers (on recycled paper) and began to promote the use of websites and social media such as Facebook, and moved all applica-tions, forms and sponsorships online.

To further e3’s commitment toward building collaborative partnerships, Rae and other e3 executive members reached out to AztecShops and proposed the idea of removing Styrofoam from campus due to the human health risk, toxic chemicals and its drastic effectson the environment. E3 executive members Drew Smith and Dola Kuljeet headed this project and conducted research to convince AztecShops to adopt this sustainable practice. Eventually, e3 executive members worked with Paul Melchior, Aztec Shops’ Director of DiningServices, to analyze the financial costs associated with using different products other than Styrofoam. By the end of spring 2009, AztecShops announced that they would remove all styrofoam from their venues on campus by spring 2010 and agreed to further the rela-tionship with e3 and learn more about sustainable operational practices.

While continuing the sustainability programs launched the previous fall semester, the A.S. Green Love Board expanded these pro-grams to include the Commitment to Sustainability initiative in which the campus community would sign the Commitment to Sustain-ability document stationed around campus and receive a wrist band that stated“Green Love Live Green.”The wrist bands would encouragestudents to remember the sustainability commitment they made.

A Commitment to Sustainability Stated:By signing this document, I vow to demonstrate my dedication to preserving the environment. To further display my loyalty tobeing a green student at SDSU, I will wear the commitment wristband. To continue informing myself, I will read the A.S. Green Lovenewsletter and share my knowledge with others. With my signature, I affirm my commitment to, at minimum, the three environ-mental standards listed below:

…I will recycle ALL products that are capable of being reprocessed(paper, cardboard, plastics, aluminum and glass).

…I will ban my consumption of plastic bags and transition to reusable bags.…I will, whenever possible, stop buying bottled water and use a refillable container.

The Green Love Board also reignited the Green Lunch Bag Speaker Series program, expanding the original monthly lunch meeting toinclude not just faculty members but staff, students, local businesses and the community. This diverse group was formed to discuss sus-

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tainability topics, projects and programs while enjoying an all or-ganic lunch provided by Aztec Shops. To assist with sustainabil-ity education and awareness throughout the campus, the GreenLove Board partnered with prominent members of differentSDSU fraternities and sororities to create a new student organi-zation called Greeks Going Green to help facilitate social and en-vironmentally responsible behavior in the SDSU Greek System.The organization started with a healthy 30 members, receivedone representative seat on the Green Love Board and conductedwalk-arounds to Greek chapter houses every other weekend toteach each house about a sustainable habit and action memberscould initiate at home. Possibly the most prominent educationalaccomplishment for the Green Love Board was Erica’s partner-ship with history professor Sarah Elkind and the implementationof SDSU’s first Sustainability and Environmental Studies com-prehensive major/minor. The major/minor began with over 60students declaring their intent to be a part of the new academicprogram at SDSU, a huge success for the Green Love Board andfaculty within the College of Arts & Letters.

In April, Grant attended the Power Shift conference. PowerShift brought 12,000 young people from across thecountry to Washington D.C. to hold elected officialsaccountable for rebuilding the nation’s economy andreclaim America’s future through bold climate andclean energy policy. From February 27th to March2nd, young people converged on Washington D.C. totake a message of bold, comprehensive and immedi-ate federal climate action to Capitol Hill. At PowerShift, young people not only delivered the messageof change to elected officials, but strengthened theclimate and clean energy movement by infusing thenation's young leaders with new ideas, skills, con-nections with each other and opportunities for em-ployment and action. Grant led the San Diego PowerShift coalition with students from the University ofSan Diego and the University of California San Diego,lobbying various representatives for a sustainable fu-ture. The conference taught Grant a great deal aboutactive collaboration and the sustainability move-ment, preparing him to be the next A.S. Green Com-missioner. Erica and Danny also attended a similarconference in April through the United States Stu-dent Association (USSA) and lobbied for sustainabil-ity-oriented funding and educational programs aswell as enhanced funding the higher education ingeneral.

Between April 15th and the 17th the week beforeEarth Day, A.S. launched its inaugural GreenFestspring festival. The funding for GreenFest was allo-cated as part of the Enhance, Evolve, Innovate refer-endum that passed the previous spring semester. Theintention of GreenFest is to educate students aboutthe concept of sustainability and create a sense ofAztec pride at SDSU. The planning and the produc-tion of the first GreenFest fell upon the A.S. CulturalArts and Special Events Board (CASE). The Green LoveBoard did participate in GreenFest and planned theTree Planting Ceremony at the SDSU Children’s Cen-ter to educate and inspire participants that sustain-

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ability was about the future, a better future for our chil-dren and our children’s children.

By the middle of April, e3 was ready to facilitate theirannual Earth Day celebration. In addition to the annual En-viro-Business Fair, this year’s Earth Day included he first-ever farmers’ market. E3 Chief Financial Officer MattNelson and Rae worked tirelessly with Aztec Shops to seekapproval and successfully implement the event. E3 evenprovided the vendors with environmentally-friendly plate-ware to heighten the “green” aspect of the market. To fa-cilitate the day-long event, e3 relied on several keypartnerships they had developed, including working withthe San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) to bothpromote Earth Day and provide free trolley passes to cam-pus, 91X and Stay Classy to bring fresh musical acts tocampus, an art class on campus that designed new logosfor the event and with Earth Smart who provided freebiodegradable plate-ware for all farmers’market vendors.

The GreenFest Executive Committee (GFEC) was even-tually created consisting of the A.S. Green Commissioner,e3 President, representatives from CASE and chaired bythe A.S. Vice President of University Affairs. The new com-mittee agreed to have meetings over the summer and ex-tended GreenFest to include an entire week of eventsincluding Earth Day and a concert.

By April of 2009 the final decisions on the“ModernSpace”new Aztec Center Project were coming to fruition. It had beenover three years since the passage of the 2006 ModernSpacereferendum, which allowed the A.S. to construct a new AztecCenter student union building as the current Aztec Centerwas inefficient for a student body of 30,000+ students. Un-fortunately, due to the economic decline in 2008, which in-cluded a variety of factors effecting the construction of thefacility, the A.S. ModernSpace sub-committee was tasked forover a year not to plan for a new student union but insteadcut out design and programming elements including a satel-lite gym, increased student organization food, increasedmeeting space, resources centers, increased food venues anda variety of other elements that were originally voted on bystudents in 2006. The committee watched as the originalhopes and dreams of what students needed in the futurewere slowly obliterated at each and every meeting heldthroughout the year. Instead, the “new” Aztec Center wasplanned to be renovated with little to no new elements.

By the end of April 2009, the project had been com-pletely gutted. At this time Grant met with A.S. GreenCommissioner Erica Johnson and A.S. President JamesPoet to express his concerns with the project and asked ifanything could be done to save the original intent of theproject. Erica called for the construction of a brand newAztec Center student union that would not only includeall the design and programming elements originally votedon in the 2006 referendum but would achieve the Lead-ership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Plat-inum certification rating, the highest green building ratinga building could achieve through the United States GreenBuilding Council (USGBC). To make this proposition a re-ality, Grant, Erica and James crafted the Resolution in Sup-

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port of LEED Platinum Certification for the ModernSpace Student Union. For the resolution to have any effect it would need to beapproved by the A.S. ModernSpace sub-committee and the A.S. Council. At the final A.S. ModernSpace sub-committee of theyear, James presented the resolution. Heated discussion commenced amongst University administrators and students alike. Tomove the resolution forward, Grant moved to approve the resolution, which was immediately seconded by Tyler. The A.S. Mod-ernSpace sub-committee voted in favor to recommend the resolution to the Associated Students Council for final approval andstart the project over.

Before the next A.S. Council meeting two days later, Erica worked tirelessly to finalize the presentation about green buildingwhile James prepared for the most important speech he would ever give at an A.S. Council meeting. At the A.S. Council meeting,Erica presented the resolution and educated Council members about green building practices. James passed his gavel of lead-ership and voiced his opinion to support the resolution, resonating with many A.S. Council members. Grant and Erin remainedadamant and outspoken about the resolution and the future of the new Aztec Center student union building. When the final votewas tallied, only two A.S. Council members opposed the resolution. The time had come to embark on a new course for the Mod-ernSpace project one that would include another fee referendum in the spring of 2010 to make the new LEED Platinum certifiedAztec Center student union a reality.

2009-2010 A.S. GREEN LOVE MILESTONES• Zipcar • Bike Lane Senate Policy• Zimride • Expansion of Green Lunch Bag Series• ModernSpace Referendum • Marine Protected Areas Resolution

2009-2010 e3MILESTONES• Annual Theme: Join the Revolution! • Kick Gas Festival• SDSU’s First Weekly Farmers’ Market • California Student Sustainability Coalition San Diego Spring Convergence

SUMMER 2009Over the summer of the 2009, Erin Lannon, e3 President, Tara Kelly, e3 CEO, and Holly Hellerstedt, e3 Vice President began plan-ning for a weekly farmers’ market on campus after successfully hosting a farmers’ market during Earth Day 2009. The three leaders

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were given the team name The Triple Bottom Line, resonating withthe three values of e3 (Erin/Ecology, Tara/Ethics and Holly/Eco-nomics). In order to start a weekly farmers’market on campus, dur-ing the summer the three e3 executive officers met withrepresentatives from Aztec Shops to implement the SDSU’s Farm-ers’ Market. For weeks Erin, Tara and Holly visited local farmers’mar-kets and met with vendors to inform them about the possibility ofa new opportunity at SDSU. By late August, eight food vendorsagreed to be a part of the SDSU Farmers’ Market and with the ap-proval of Aztec Shops to move forward, the Farmers’ Market wasready to become a reality in September.

While the e3 Triple Bottom Line execs began laying the foun-dation for the SDSU Farmers’ Market, Grant Mack the A.S. GreenCommissioner, now titled the A.S. Sustainability Commissioner,began formulating plans for the A.S. Green Love Sustainability Ad-visory Board. Specifically, Grant planned to bring two now alterna-tive transportation programs to campus; Zimride, an onlineride-sharing program and Zipcar, a car-sharing program for theSDSU community. To do this Tyler Boden, A.S. President, AlyssaBruni, A.S. Vice President of External Affairs, Grant and Erin attendedthe UC/CSU/CCC Sustainability Conference at UC Santa Barbara tonot only meet representatives from Zimride and Zipcar but to learnabout all the other sustainability oriented projects and programsbeing implemented throughout the state. Grant was able to initiatethe Zimride and Zipcar programs with approval from the A.S. Ex-ecutive Committee and was able to secure funding for the A.S. Sus-tainability Educational Awareness Campaign, now titled the A.S.Greening Your Life Campaign, as well as funding from the CulturalArts & Special Events (CASE) board for the semester-long Green

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Lunch Bag Series.As e3 and the A.S. Green Love board began to prepare

for the 2009-2010 academic year, members of the A.S.GreenFest Executive Committee (GFEC) met over the sum-mer to start planning for the spring sustainability andAztec pride focused festival.

FALL 2009On Sept. 8, 2009, the weekly SDSU Farmers’Market beganon Campanile Walkway from 10 a.m. - 2p.m. with eightfood vendors and the e3 informational booth and it wassuccessful! Each week during the fall of 2009 the marketgrew in vendors and sales. To enhance the sustainabilityoperations of the Farmers’ Market, e3 and Aztec Shopscreated environmental standards and a mission statementto formalize the Farmers’Market on campus. The environ-mental standards for the Farmers’ Markets were imple-mented in phases to ensure the vendors were notoverwhelmed with abrupt changes. The first standardconsisted of banning plastic bottles, soda cans, Styrofoamand plastic bags. Brian Wynne, Aztec Shops General Man-ager of Concessions, became the Aztec Shops liaison withe3, working with the e3 executive board to continue tomake the Farmers’ Market a success. Brian worked dili-gently to approve vendor contracts and insurance formsand set up the 8x4’wooden e3/Aztec Shops Farmers’Mar-ket signs every morning. To market SDSU’s Farmers’ Mar-ket e3 used Facebook, classroom announcements, ads inthe Daily Aztec and the Aztec Recreation Center (ARC), aswell as the ARC newsletter. E3 also passed out organic ap-ples to professors throughout the campus to inform themof the weekly event. To foster the business relationshipbetween the vendors and e3, each e3 executive officerwas assigned a vendor to be their “green Farmers’ Marketconsultant.” This consisted of communicating with thevendor on a weekly basis and assist implementing the en-vironmental standards. The SDSU Farmers’ Market fin-ished the semester with 22 vendors.

With an e3 executive board of twenty five membersErin, Tara and Holly created an e3 blog to accurately andefficiently inform the e3 executive board about meetings,events and responsibilities. The blog was a great tool tofoster active communication amongst the board mem-bers and organize the many initiatives e3 had embarkedon for the year. To further the engagement between theErin, Tara, Holly and the e3 executive board e3 hosted abeach cleanup in Ocean Beach San Diego, CA, partneringwith the Surfrider Foundation and In-N-Out who gavethem clean up materials and old potato sacks to pick uptrash and debris. The event was not only a bonding op-portunity for all the e3 executives but it was also an op-portunity to clean up the human generated waste on thebeach and in the parking lots.

On October 24, people from 181 countries worldwidecame together for the most widespread day of environ-mental action in the planet's history; 350.org’s Interna-tional Day of Climate Awareness. On this day, 5,200 eventswere held around the world. People gathered to call for

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strong action and bold leadership, aswell as to solve the growing climate cri-sis. With guidance from 350.org the In-ternational Day of Climate Awarenessbecame the largest grassroots move-ment/event in history. In San Diego for-mer e3 executive officers, AnnieBessinger, Matt Nelson and Rae Gurnepartnered with various non-profit or-ganizations, including e3, as well as gov-ernment agencies and local companiesto host the Kick Gas Festival. The festivalencouraged San Diegans to ditch a carand utilize the public transportation op-tions in San Diego to prevent the use ofoil and the production of Green HouseGas emissions. The enormous event,which was dubbed the "EcoPart of theWest Coast," consisted of the followingelements: 91X Sustainable Waves SolarStage featuring Matisyahu plus 20 morebands and DJs, Sterling Collwood Sus-tainable Living Zone, K1 Speed EV AutoCross Racing and Showstopper Wax EVCar Show, OB Farmers Market Zone,Ocean Beach Surf and Skate InteractiveZone, Go Vavi Fun Zone, Earthlist.comECO World Zone, Julian Hard Cider AdultBeverage Garden and a Kick Gas time! Atthe peak of the event, there were 8,300attendees. Current e3 members becamethe grassroot volunteer force for theevent and assisted with the set-up, op-erations and teardown of the entire pro-duction.

While the grassroot sustainability ini-tiatives were being implemented by e3,Grant Mack successfully implementedprograms on campus. Two new alterna-tive transportation programs on cam-pus, Zipcar and Zimride, were launchedduring the semester. With collaborativefunding and direction between Grantand Mariah Hudson, the Assistant Direc-tor for the SDSU Center for Regional Sus-tainability, the Green Lunch Bag Seriesbecame a once a month event in whichprofessors, community members, non-profit organizations, government agen-cies and companies were asked topresent their sustainability projects, pro-grams and initiatives while enjoying ahealthy catered organic lunch. Eachevent was hosted at Scripps Cottage and

attracted between 25 and 40 students every month.In November, e3 attended the California Student Sustainability Coalition's (CSSC) Fall Convergence at UC Santa Cruz. The

weekend was full of workshops, panel discussions, locally grown organic food, a group sleepover in a barn, beautiful hikes andpassionate students. The e3 executive board also attended San Francisco’s Green Festival for the third consecutive year. This yearGrant and Green Love board members also attended the festival. Similarly to the past two years, e3 members networked and re-

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cruited businesses to be a part of e3’s Earth Day celebration at SDSU. Typically, Earth Day was not only a celebration at SDSU but also a timein which e3 would push the envelope on an issue that had not been addressed on campus. E3 had already produced on an eco-fashionshow, an epic concert, a weekly farmers’ market and a yearly green business fair, so it was time to raise the bar that much higher. Erin, Taraand Holly decided that the next big event for Earth Day would be a local, organic beer garden! The three e3 executive officers crafted alengthy and detailed proposal for the Save the Ales: A Garden, Compost and Cultural Event. The proposal covered various aspects of sus-tainability, including global and local environmental issues, climate change and water conservation. The goal was to incorporate social eq-uity into the event while raising awareness about how to “green” a student’s everyday life through composting, transportation, purchasingand gardening facts. To receive approval, Erin worked closely withNatalie Colli through the GreenFest Executive Committee to seek ap-proval from the University Vice President for Student Affairs, Dr. JamesKitchen. After multiple meetings Dr. Kitchen approved the beer gar-den appreciating the educational components it had to offer.

To finish the fall semester with a bang, a ribbon-cutting cere-mony was held at the Aztec Aquaplex for the final installation ofthe 124 kw solar photovoltaic array, the largest solar project evercompleted by the A.S. that doubled the amount of solar energyproduction at SDSU. The project was a collaboration between Sul-livan Solar Power, the contracting company who installed theAquaplex solar panels, and the A.S. Green Love board. What wasmost unique about the ceremony is that Erica Johnson, former e3President and A.S. Green Commissioner, worked for Sullivan SolarPower and assisted with the event. Speakers included, TylerBoden, A.S. President, Grant Mack, A.S. Sustainability Commis-sioner, Dr. Stephen L. Weber, SDSU President, California State Sen-ator 39th District Christine Kehoe, Daniel Sullivan, Sullivan SolarPower President and City of San Diego Council Member District 2Kevin Faulconer. The event was a huge success with many stu-dents, faculty, administrators and media personnel present.

To conclude 2010, 350.org hosted a second climate action dayin which people from all over the world gathered at iconic and

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strategic locations in their communities to host candlelight vigils.E3 planned a vigil in Balboa Park and together with communitymembers lit candles of hope to stand in solemn solidarity with thecitizens and peoples of other nations whose very survival is threat-ened by the growing climate crisis. These nations called for a "sur-vival pact" and commitments from developed nations to cut GreenHouse Gas emissions and reduce the atmospheric concentrationof CO2 from 410 parts per million to 350 parts per million, the tol-erable amount the earth’s atmosphere would sustain without sig-nificant climate change.

SPRING 2010Once the spring 2010 semester began, the A.S. was well underwayto move forward with a new ModernSpace referendum in March. Inorder to construct a new LEED Platinum student union building thatconsisted of all the necessary elements students voted upon in the2006 ModernSpace referendum, the A.S. needed to pass a $94 fee in-crease effective fall 2013. The summer and fall of 2009 were strictlydedicated toward the planning and organization of a successfulModernSpace referendum in the spring of 2010. A new architectfirm, CANON Design, and the LEED Consultant firm Lynn Simon &Associates, were hired earlier in the semester with the hope of theModernSpace referendum passing in spring. All the plans were inplace for the referendum to launch in March and under the guid-ance of the ModernSpace Referendum Marketing committee theA.S. was more than ready. However, before the ModernSpace refer-endum campaign was launched Grant and Glen finalized the imple-mentation of the solar water heating array at the SDSU Children’sCenter, heating all of the hot water used at the facility. The officialZipcar launch was also implemented by the beginning of Februaryas well as the installation of the Aquaplex variable frequency poolpumps which drastically reduced the amount of energy consumedat the popular facility.

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referendum campaign. A.S. Council members, e3members, A.S. board members and many other stu-dents spent three weeks of campaigning across theuniversity giving presentations to classes, staff mem-bers and student organizations, handing outbrochures and promotional items, as well as tabling atvarious spots across the campus and hosting educa-tional events to encourage students to vote on March9th & 10th. Grant, Tara and Erin were named the“green experts,” who were asked to be present ateach presentation to answer questions’ students mayhave about the sustainability elements of the newLEED Platinum student union. After all of the hardwork each and every member of the campaign vol-unteered, the ModernSpace referendum passed witha 54% approval! In the fall of 2013 SDSU will have thefirst LEED Platinum student union in the entire Cali-fornia State University (CSU) system! The time hadcome for SDSU and A.S. to be placed on the map asan institution and organization who considers sus-tainability and the future of our community as thehighest priority.

With the SDSU LEED Platinum student union proj-ect moving forward, Grant who helped plan the sus-tainable messaging behind the ModernSpaceReferendum campaign, shifted his focus toward theimplementation of bike lanes throughout the campus.In order for bike lanes to be implemented Grantworked with Ignacio Prado, A.S. VP of Finance and Na-talie Colli, A.S. VP of University Affairs to modify theUniversity Senate Policy banning the use of bikeswithin the interior of the campus. Grant received ap-proval from both the University Environmental Health& Safety Senate Committee and the Senate Sustain-ability Committee to proceed with the modificationsto the policy that would stipulate bikes are legal withinthe interior of the campus as long they are within des-ignated lanes. Grant, along with Ignacio, presented thepolicy modification to the University Senate, it was ap-proved unanimously. After forty years of a no wheelspolicy, SDSU finally modified the policy to allow bikeswithin the campus interior. The next step was to dis-cuss and act upon the implementation the bike lanesthroughout the campus based on KTU+A’s 2008-2009Bike and Skate Lane Safety study.

With progress being made on all fronts, Earth Day2010 had finally arrived. April 19-23 marked the sec-ond annual GreenFest. e3 was ready to launch EarthDay with the theme of Join the Revolution, based onthe revolutionary sustainability progress e3 had en-acted and been a part of at SDSU. E3 had contactedover sixty local green businesses for the third annualEarth Day Enviro-Business Fair, set up an Eco-ActionCenter and hosted the Save the Ales Beer Garden inAztec Center. The Eco-Action Center on Earth was also a great event as it allowed students to learn about sustainable related issuesin their communities and how to take steps to solve them. The goal of the Eco Action Center was to give people the chance to ac-tually take action while being surrounded by inspiring green businesses and the overall spirit of Earth Day. Local organizations cameto provide information on water, food, and waste. The Save the Ales Beer Garden was perhaps e3’s most celebrated event as brewmaster Karl Strauss explained the process of making beer, the ingredients and why it is important to consume local beer to decrease

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the transported miles and support the local economy. TheSave the Ales Beer Garden also included educational ban-ners featuring“Green Your Life”tips and advice. GreenFestevents throughout the week-long included keynotespeaker addresses from Jerome Ringo, Senior Executivefor Global Strategies by Green Port and former president ofthe World Wildlife Foundation, an enviro-fashion show, abike brunch, an herb garden expo, student organizationcompetitions and an evening concert featuring the head-line performer LMFAO. Despite all the obstacles that arosefrom the gloomy and rainy weather during the week ofGreenFest the entire event was a huge success for the A.S.,e3 and the campus community.

With the semester coming to an end, Grant and the A.S.Green Love board moved forward with the Resolution inSupport of a Nine Square Mile Minimum Marine ProtectedReserve in South La Jolla they had been working on withSan Diego Coast Keeper. After three weeks of revisions, theA.S. Council approved the resolution showing its supportfor environmental stewardship, not just at SDSU but in theSan Diego region. Even though GreenFest and Earth Daywere over, e3 was not ready to stop pushing for progressat SDSU. Following the creation of the Food Justice Politi-cal Science course, and the Aztec Farm at the SDSU SantaMargartia Ecological Reserve, the SDSU Center for Re-gional Sustainability and e3 played an integral role in plan-ning the Cultivating Food Justice Conference (CFJC) held atSDSU. The CFJC was a regional conference focused ongathering all organizations and people working on foodjustice--turning lawns into food gardens, making countypolicies affecting home gardens less stringent, bringingreal food into schools, providing access to healthy, localfood in all neighborhoods and forming groups of like-minded community members to hold discussion. The CFJChad many volunteers and attracted over 800 participants.The CFJC brought well-renown author and food advocateRaj Patel to speak, as well as local farmer and activist BarryLogan. Workshops ranging from Food Policy 101 to How toPreserve Foods were held, and attendants received a 100%free, local and organic lunch, with produce from farmsacross San Diego, prepared by local food volunteers. Local

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musicians capped off the event during the free lunch. Overall, the goal of the conference was to educate and move people to act onissues in their communities. The CFJC was a huge success and continued e3’s movement in the sustainable food world, adding newideas to the SDSU Farmers’ Market.

By May, e3 was proud to hear that Aztec Shops had banned all Styrofoam on campus by switching to non-toxic more environ-mental responsible alternatives. Tara Kelly was officially appointed the A.S. Sustainability Commissioner by A.S. President Grant Mack.e3 now had two new presidents, Lenny Sczechowicz and Berneice Rodriguez to lead the organization.

2010-2011 A.S. GREEN LOVE MILESTONES• Sorority Greek Recycling Program • Establishment of Aztec Shops New Student Union Food Committee• Residence Hall Recycling Program • A.S. Long Term Corporate Sustainability Goals• Trial Period & Permanent Bike Lanes • A.S. Sustainability Video and Report

2010-2011 e3MILESTONES• Annual Theme: The World is in YOUR Hands!• Continuation of Farmers Market

SUMMER 2010In between planning the Green Love board initiatives for the academic year. Tara was also in constant contact with the new e3 lead-ership, Lenny Sczechowicz and Berneice Rodriguez.

With the successful collaborative implementation of Green-Fest 2010 the GreenFest Executive Committee for GreenFest2011 once again begun meeting in early June. The committeeexpanded by adding three positions, A.S. Diversity Commis-sioner, Greek liaison and a public relations specialist. The ideas,collaborative understanding and overall goal to make Green-Fest more exciting and sustainable were always the main pri-ority.

In June, a handful of Green Love board and e3 members at-tended the annual California Higher Education SustainabilityConference at LA City College. The annual conference, whichwas formally named the University of California, California StateUniversity, California Community College Sustainability Con-ference, gave students and Glen Brandenburg a unique op-portunity to network with like minded individuals and feed offone another’s ideas for projects, programs and initiates. BothTara and Glen gave five presentations, including joint presen-tations with Sullivan Solar Power and Simon and Associates,the LEED Consultant hired for the LEED Platinum New StudentUnion project formerly known as ModernSpace. While Tara andGlen presented at the California Higher Education Sustainabil-ity Conference in LA, Grant was busy attending the CaliforniaState Student Association (CSSA) meeting at California StateUniversity (CSU) Stanislaus as the SDSU A.S. President. CSSA isthe single recognized voice for students of the CSU system thatserves to represent the collective interests of CSU students tothe CA governor, legislature, CSU Board of Trustees, CSU Chan-cellor, CSU faculty and alumni and the public. As a voting mem-bers on the Board of Directors of this organization, Grantbecame the CSSA Environmental Affairs Officer. Grant’s visionfor the position was to create a sustainability fund that couldbe applied for by the different Associated Students through-out the CSU system to implement various sustainability relatedprojects and programs. This fund became known as the Green-ovation fund and was launched in Spring of 2011.

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President Sean Kashanchi attended meetings about thenew Student Union project to ensure that the project wason schedule and would meet the minimum LEED Platinumpoint requirements to be certified by the United StatesGreen Building Council (USGBC). Tara also attended manymeetings over the summer to set up a Greek RecyclingProgram, figure out logistics to start a bike-sharing pro-gram on campus and assisted Dr. Vinod Sasidharan withthe establishment of his Sustainable Development course(PSFA 100).

As Tara was busy finalizing all the sustainable initiativesfor year, Grant worked with Dan Cornthwaite, A.S. Execu-tive Director and Bob Schulz, SDSU University Architect toimplement the installation of a trial period bike lane downCampanile Walkway. The trial period was initiated to testthe viability and safety of bike lanes in the middle of cam-pus before the finalized red concrete stained lanes wouldbe installed by the end of the academic year. The overallpurpose of the bike lanes on campus was to encouragethe use of alternative transportation to and from campus,reduce parking infrastructure costs to the university, re-duce car related costs to students, faculty and staff, en-courage exercise via bike use, reduce pollution within thecollege area, reduce car traffic around the campus and inthe community and reduce the University’s overall GreenHouse Gas index.

FALL 2010On August 30th, the first day of the fall semester at SDSU,the first bike lane in campus history was established onCampanile Walkway. Due to the lane being a trial period en-hancement to the campus it was decided to install neongreen bike lane tape that would run along the west side ofCampanile Walkway to mark the designated bike lane oncampus. After five years of advocacy, e3’s vision of a bikelane in the central part of campus had finally started to be-

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come a reality.To celebrate the addition of a bike lane on campus, on September 15th the A.S. and e3 hosted a bike lane ribbon-cutting ceremony

and bike fair on Campanile Walkway to acknowledge all the individuals who worked on the project. Tara spearheaded the event, whichdrew attention from students, faculty, staff, administrators and local media. To memorialize the project SDSU President Weber joinedGrant and a handful of Green Love and e3 students to bike down the lane breaking through the green ribbon to start the ceremony.Speakers included President Weber, Bob Schulz and Grant while Tara directed the event and introduced each speaker. In addition to theceremony, booths at the bike fair gave students the opportunity to win related prizes.

To ensure the safety and success of the bike lane Grant encouraged Tara and Candice Luistro, A.S. Vice President of University Affairsto establish a joint board bike lane monitoring program between the A.S. Green Love board and the University Affairs board. For a cou-ple of hours a day for two weeks students from each of the boards set up a booth next to the lane to educate students to walk outside ofthe lane and remind bikers to watch their speed. Photos, brochures and giveaways were used to entice students to become more in-formed and educated about the purpose of the lane and to be safe. The bike lane monitoring program seemed to help decrease theamount of students walking in the lane and the speed of bikers. However, the culture change that was in order would take time in orderfor students to fully realize the change that had occurred on campus. By the end of the semester the decrease in students walking in thelane compared to the beginning of the semester was significant.

One of the areas on campus that e3 and the A.S. Green Love board had tried for years to influence and encourage becoming more sus-tainable were students who lived in the residence halls. Due to Tara living in the residence halls as a Residential Advisor, she was excitedto actively engage and collaborate with the Residence Hall Association (RHA) to implement various sustainable initiatives in the living com-munities. Tara was appointed as the Eco Chair of the Residence Hall Association to push for certain sustainability initiatives. Tara workedtirelessly to initiate various programs in the residence halls. The A.S. Green Love board and RHA were able to host a Dance in the Dark, anevent aimed for students in the residence halls to dance and enjoy other students company while learning about the important of con-serving energy. Over one hundred students showed up to the event throughout the night with an original estimate of only thirty.

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With the plans for the New Student Union underway, Grant be-came concerned about the planned food venues that would be of-fered in the new facility as constructing a building to meet LEEDPlatinum certification goes far beyond just the construction as it isalso a major driver of the sustainable operations in the facility aswell. To begin planning for sustainable food options in the newbuilding Grant worked with Donna Tusack, Aztec Shops CEO toform the Aztec Center Food Venue Oversight Committee. The com-mittee met in early November to discuss possible food venues inthe new building, and decided that a survey was necessary to es-tablish what students were looking for in the new student union.Would they want more vegan options? Gluten free? Local? Or-ganic? What do students think is healthy? The survey would an-swer these questions.

Once again in mid-November e3 and A.S. Green Love board stu-dents attended the annual GreenFestival in San Francisco, network-ing with green businesses, gaining ideas and contacts for the e3Earth Day Enviro-Business Fair. The group of students who attendeddid all they could to reduce their carbon foot print to travel to andfrom the event by carpooling, staying in a hostel and used publictransportation to attend the conference, It was a great bonding andeducational experience for the group of e3 and A.S. Green Loveboard students.

One of the ideas students who attended the GreenFestival in SanFrancisco brought back was to implement and expand compostingon campus. Aztec Shops composts in a couple of their venues. Tobring awareness about composting, the A.S. Green Love boardstarted a composting pilot program by the end November. The A.S.Green Love board moved forward, receiving permission from SDSUDining Services to staff a bin in the East Commons food venue fortwo hours a day. Collaborating with the students on campus, Tarawas able to have an art student paint the compost bin with a gar-den theme to bring visually stimulating awareness as it was staffedby A.S. Green Love board members during peak lunch hours oncampus. Many students had never heard of composting, so it wasdifficult to encourage students to compost, but an opportunity tobring awareness to what composting means, how it works andwhat the benefits are was another great opportunity for the A.S.Green Love board to engage the campus community.

San Diego Coast Keeper once again contacted the A.S. Green Loveboard to advocate on behalf of Marine Protect Areas (MPA) in San Diego.Specifically Coast Keeper and WiLDCOAST asked if A.S. Green Loveboard members would help testify in front of the California Fish andGames Commissioner during one of two meetings that would decideif the Marine Protected Areas were adopted or rejected in South La Jolla.A.S. Green Love board members ended one of their meetings early totake a bus to the hearing to testify and due to their hard work as well asthe work of many other San Diegans, it was decided that the MarineProtect Areas would be adopted for South La Jolla!

The AS Green Love board continued the Green Lunch Bag Seriesin collaboration with the SDSU Center for Regional Sustainability.The programs attendance increased each week during the semesterdue to Erin Lannon’s efforts to promote the program and the pro-motional prizes that were given to students who answered ques-tions about the speaker’s presentations. This monthly programprovided more than just an organic lunch and was an importantforum for students, faculty, staff and local business leaders to con-nect with one another and discuss different projects, programs andissues that related to sustainability, As the Green Lunch Bag Series

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continued for the remainder of the semester so too did the Greening Your Life campaign, but with a new standard; all promo-tional products purchased by the A.S. Green Love board would be made in America from recycled materials that were recycla-ble. Although this was a bit of a challenge since the majority of promotional products are made in China. The made in Americastandard also applied to the GreenFest Executive Committee. The committee members realized the importance of buying Amer-ican made promotional items for GreenFest because purchasing American made products reduces the carbon footprint of aproduct through reduced transportation while supporting the local American economy and ethical business practices. The A.S.Green Love board also participated in the statewide elections by advocating for No on Proposition 23 campaign which if ap-proved by California voters would abolish the state of California’s Global Warming Solutions Act (Assembly Bill 32) that statedthe state of California had to reduces its Green House Gas emissions lower than 1990 levels before 2020. The Proposition wasvoted down by California voter in November, securing California’s green future.

Due to Tara’s and Mina Azim’s, A.S. Events Commissioner, involvement in the GreenFest Executive Committee both indi-viduals were invited to attend the This Way to Sustainability Conference at California State University (CSU) Chico. At thesame time, Grant was invited through CSSA to present a workshop about a CSU wide sustainability vision statement to cam-pus administrators and staff to push forward the movement at an administrator level. After the conference Tara and Mina,began working compiling a list of A.S.Green Programming Guidelines to im-plement the follow semester.

After two years of the Urban Corps. ofSan Diego County (a nonprofit organiza-tion whose mission is to provide jobtraining and educational opportunitiesto young adults, in the fields of conser-vation, recycling, and community serv-ice) securing a state grant for a GreekRecycling system at SDSU, Tara and Grantwere finally able to establish connectionswith the Greek systems leadership to im-plement the program. The program wasset to give each sorority house a largeoutdoor recycling bin and small bins forthe inside that would be collected regu-larly, with funds being returned to the re-spective sorority houses. The grant alsoincluded funding for a kick-off event,promotional items, prizes for the winningsorority, funding for sororities to encour-age others to recycle, as well as a cele-bration event at the end of the semester.By December the foundation was laid forthe program, promotional items orderedand the details for the January kick-offevent were ready to be implemented.

Before the end of the Fall semester,the A.S. Green Love board hosted a Zip-car day to bring awareness to the campuscommunity about the program. Also,thanks to Glen Brandenburg's efforts, theA.S. SDSU Children’s Center 23kw solarphotovoltaic array was constructed off-setting roughly 33% of the total energyused by the facility. In collaboration withthe University department of CampusDesign, Construction and Facilities Plan-ning the A.S. visionary leadership de-cided with proper financing to increasethe planned 173kw solar photovoltaicarray for the New Student Union buildingto a 343kw solar photovoltaic array to off-set about 50% of the total energy used

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for the facility in a given year. These projects like so many other A.S. Green Love board projects were another step forwardfor a more just and sustainable campus.

SPRING 2011At the start of the spring semester, Tara appointed a new A.S. Green Love board Vice Chair, Aaron Choy. Tara then plannedPanhellenic Recycling Program Kick-Off Event, Sororities from across the Greek system came to the event excited about thecompetition and ready to learn more about sustainability. The event was huge success with hundreds of women in atten-dance. After the event, the recycling bins were delivered to each of the sorority houses and the program finally began.

In addition to Tara’s efforts through the A.S. Green Love board, Grant began finalizing the plans for the final imple-mentation of bike lanes throughout the University campus. Although an initial aspect of the original study, skateboardswere removed from the project scope entirely. However, the implementation for the final red concrete stained bike laneswere planned to be constructed over spring break. Grant also moved forward with the LEED Platinum recognition wall inthe new Student Union building to recognize all the individuals who were key to the development of the New StudentUnion building and began finalizing plans for the approval of A.S. Long Term Corporate Sustainability Goals as well as theA.S. Sustainability video and report after receiving funding from the Presidents Leadership Fund the semester prior. Allthese initiatives were slated to be completed by the end of the spring semester.

In collaboration with e3, the Farmers’ Market continued to be a success and established a food container program wherestudents would buy for $5 a reusable food container to prevent waste and receive discounts from the vendors in addition tomore food. After five short weeks, the container was planned to pay for itself, while reducing waste each week. Due to e3’sdiligence and hard work with Aztec Shops the Farmers’ Market was planned to continue for another two years while the con-struction of the new Student Union was being constructed starting June 1st of 2011. Along with the Farmers Market Tara ande3 continued to work with Aztec Shops to brainstorm various sustainable programs in the many food venues like the possi-bility of banning plastic bags and water bottles in the near future as well as posting signage for students in the market to fillup their reusable water bottles.

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The schedule of events for GreenFest 2011 was finalized and readyto be fully implemented from April 18th – 22nd. Events on Monday in-cluded the Sector 9 Bike Brunch, the Amazing Race Green Edition stu-dent competition and a sustainable music video competition and filmscreening. On Tuesday there would be the Enviro-Fashion Show andRecycled Art Show while on Wednesday there would be the GreenLunch Bag Series featuring keynote speakers and inspirational activistsJulia “Butterfly” Hill and Daryl Hannah, as well as “In Conversation WithJulia and Daryl” event and a University Reception following their largekeynote address in Montezuma Hall with seats for 800 people. To in-centivize students to participate, Tara and Aaron sent over a hundredpersonalized emails to professors over winter break asking them tooffer credit to hear the keynote speakers, giving students the oppor-tunity to hear two phenomenal environmental activists speak. Wednes-day also would include the new Sustain Your Roots: World Map ToSustainability, event where twenty countries and a showcase of cul-tural performers would teach the campus about sustainable practicesin other countries and cultures. Thursday would mark e3’s third annualEnviro-Business Fair in addition to the weekly SDSU Farmers’ Market,which would have a culinary showcase from Chef Brian Malarkey. E3would also plan five days of advocacy through the week; MeatlessMonday, Transportation Tuesday, Mega-Watt Wednesday, ThrivingThursday and Free 4 All Friday. To conclude the week-long celebration,on Friday evening a festival would take place on the large Environ-mental and Nutritional Sciences (ENS) field with e3’s Save the Ales BeerGarden, rides, performers, composting and recycling stations, games,farmers’ market food vendors and more! After the festival an epic con-cert featuring performers Lupe Fiasco, Steve Aoki, followed DJ Skinnieat the Viejas Arena.


This report has been written up until March of 2011 with the following initiatives listedbelow to be completed by the end of the spring 2011 semester:

• Finalized Bike Lane funding on Campanile and Aztec Walkways (Approved by theAS Council on March 9th, 2011 and planned for implementation over summer 2011)

• AS Long Term Corporate Sustainability Goals (Approved by the AS Council on March16th, 2011)

- All Associated Students managed facilities will achieve Leadership in En-ergy and Environmental Design Existing Building: Operations & Mainte-nance (LEED EB: O&M) silver certification or better by 2020.

- All Associated Students managed facilities will become net-energy zeroby 2020.

- The Associated Students will encourage full-time and part-time employeesto embrace sustainable lifestyles by implementing programs to incentivizesocially and environmentally responsible behavior.

• Attendance at the Powershift Conference in Washington DC April 15th - 18th• Completion of the AS Sustainability Documentary and Report (Planned for com-

pletion May 2011)• Continuation of the Aztec Center Food Venue Oversight Committee (2011 - )

Everything we have done is a piece of a much larger puzzle and there is much more that needsto be done. But this is our vision, our progress and our desire to make San Diego State Uni-versity a more sustainable campus. We hope this report has inspired you to become involvedin the ever growing sustainability movement and that you have learned that simple actionscan dramatically change the discourse of your life and the lives of others.

Written by:

Grant MackAssociated Students President/CEO, 2010/11

Tara KellyAssociated Students Sustainability Commissioner, 2010/11

TO BE CONTINUED...

SPECIAL THANKS TO...Glen Brandenberg, A.S. Sustainability Advisor and Mission Bay Aquatic Center DirectorHeather Honea, e3 AdvisorJennifer Esquivel-Parker, A.S. Government Executive Affairs and Program AdministratorQuentin Skaggs, A.S. Graphics Supervisor2005-2011 e3 Executive Officers2008-2011 Green Love Board MembersErica Johnson, 2007-2008 e3 President and 2008-2009 A.S. Sustainability Comissioner



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