Looking forward In the short-term, the campus will undergo a process to assess the level investments it can sustain to meet the 2025 goal of climate neutrality balanced against what it will need to invest in offsets. As we increase onsite renewable energy generation, reduce energy use per square foot, and move towards electrification, we anticipate that our Scope 3 commuter emissions will take up a larger percentage of GHG emissions. With our current 69% waste diversion rate, attaining the last 21% required to meet the 2020 zero waste goal will require behavioral, infrastructure, as well as external partnerships. Partnering Waste and Recycling efforts with our Procurement practices to reduce what is brought on to campus will have a large impact on this outcome. Our sustainability internship program allows students to actively participate in making improvements to the campus in all of the functional as well as in the local community. They are integral to our progress and provide much of the hard work, ideas, and passion for testing approaches and concepts and using the campus as a living lab to implement change. The Campus Sustainability Plan is a living document and as goals are attained the subcommittees or change agent teams add new goals that are then are added in to our annual report to the Chancellor. The Campus Sustainability Plan will be updated again in academic year 2020/2021. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We would like to recognize all of those who contributed to this Plan. We especially want to thank the members of the Chancellor’s Campus Sustainability Committee. The Plan relies heavily on multiple campus stakeholders for input, support, and comments: Amorette Getty, Postdoctoral Researcher; Staff Advisor, LabRATS, Geography David Lea, Faculty Co-Chair, Chancellor’s Sustainability Committee Katie Mayard, Sustainability Coordinator and Executive Director, CHESC; Co-advisor for LabRATS Christina McGuire, Student Programs Assistant, Department of Geography Mo Lovegreen, Director, Campus Sustainability Matthew O’Carroll, Recycling, & Water Efficiency Manager, Physical Facilities Heather Perry, Sustainable Procurement Analyst, Purchasing Jewel Persad, Sustainability Coordinator and TGIF Grants Manager, Office of the Vice Chancellor Jordan Sager, Jordan Sager, Campus Energy Manager, Physical Facilities Arjun Sarkar, Transportation Services Siedschlag, Associated Students Environmental Programs Advisor, Associated Students Lisa Stratton, Director of Ecosystem Management, CCBER
Looking forward In the short-term, the campus will undergo a process to assess the level investments it can sustain to meet the 2025 goal of climate neutrality balanced against what it will need to invest in offsets. As we increase onsite renewable energy generation, reduce energy use per square foot, and move towards electrification, we anticipate that our Scope 3 commuter emissions will take up a larger percentage of GHG emissions. With our current 69% waste diversion rate, attaining the last 21% required to meet the 2020 zero waste goal will require behavioral, infrastructure, as well as external partnerships. Partnering Waste and Recycling efforts with our Procurement practices to reduce what is brought on to campus will have a large impact on this outcome. Our sustainability internship program allows students to actively participate in making improvements to the campus in all of the functional as well as in the local community. They are integral to our progress and provide much of the hard work, ideas, and passion for testing approaches and concepts and using the campus as a living lab to implement change. The Campus Sustainability Plan is a living document and as goals are attained the subcommittees or change agent teams add new goals that are then are added in to our annual report to the Chancellor. The Campus Sustainability Plan will be updated again in academic year 2020/2021. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We would like to recognize all of those who contributed to this Plan. We especially want to thank the members of the Chancellor’s Campus Sustainability Committee. The Plan relies heavily on multiple campus stakeholders for input, support, and comments: Amorette Getty, Postdoctoral Researcher; Staff Advisor, LabRATS, Geography David Lea, Faculty Co-Chair, Chancellor’s Sustainability Committee Katie Mayard, Sustainability Coordinator and Executive Director, CHESC; Co-advisor for LabRATS Christina McGuire, Student Programs Assistant, Department of Geography Mo Lovegreen, Director, Campus Sustainability Matthew O’Carroll, Recycling, & Water Efficiency Manager, Physical Facilities Heather Perry, Sustainable Procurement Analyst, Purchasing Jewel Persad, Sustainability Coordinator and TGIF Grants Manager, Office of the Vice Chancellor Jordan Sager, Jordan Sager, Campus Energy Manager, Physical Facilities Arjun Sarkar, Transportation Services Siedschlag, Associated Students Environmental Programs Advisor, Associated Students Lisa Stratton, Director of Ecosystem Management, CCBER