Sustainabilityat UC Santa Cruz

Aurora WinsladeSustainability Coordinator, UCSC

Fall 2007

Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world.

-- Rachel Carson

The problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking that created them.

-- Albert Einstein

Institutional Change

Institutional Change• Governance

• Planning

• Policy

• Procedure

• Behavior, culture, and choices

Information Coordination Collaboration

Examples of Transforming UCSC

• Student Involvement

• UC Policy on Sustainable Practices

• Sustainability Office and the Campus Sustainability Subcommittee

• Campus Sustainability Assessment

• Climate Protection

Student Involvement

• Passing of the first Regent’s Green Building Policy & Renewable Energy Standard in 2003-2004

• Student fees:– Student bus pass (1972)– $240,000 annual funding for sustainability

projects (2003-2004)– 100% renewable energy (2005-2006)

UC Policy on Sustainable Practices

• Sustainable Transportation

• Climate Protection Practices

• Sustainable Purchasing

• Sustainable Operations

• Green Building & Clean Energy– Existing Buildings, New Construction, and

Commercial Interiors

Sustainability Office & the Campus Sustainability

Subcommittee

• Two-year pilot program to create a permanent Sustainability Office on campus

• Campus-wide committee to help integrate sustainability into all aspects of campus life

Campus Sustainability Assessment

• Transformation - Information, Culture, Governance

• Indicators:– Transportation, Water, Food, Waste and

Recycling, Energy and Climate, Purchasing, Buildings, Land Use, Curriculum, Governance, Campus Life

Climate Protection at UCSC

• Climate Action Planning and policy commitments

• Focus the Nation: January 31st, 2008

College 9/10 Multi-Purpose Rm

Get Involved!

Get Involved!

• Campus Earth Summit Presents:

Focus the Nation: January 31st, 2008 College 9/10 Multi-Purpose Room

Email: tboggia@ucsc.edu • Student Environmental Center

Wednesdays 6:30pm College 8 Red Room

• Education for Sustainable Living Program

Mondays 6:30 World Café - Kresge College