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Schedule of Events

About the NECSCThe Northeast Campus Sustainability Consortium (NECSC) was established in October 2004 to advance educationand action for sustainable development on university campuses in the northeast and maritime region. The NECSCmembers have committed to an annual meeting that advances campus sustainability . The NECSC represents morethan forty institutions of higher education from the northeast United States and Eastern Canadian Provinces.

Steering Committee Members: Chair-Chelsea Malacara, University of Southern Maine, Sustainability Education & Outreach Coordinator Aaron Witham, University of Southern Maine, Assistant Director for Sustainable ProgramsKeisha Payson, Bowdoin College, Assistant Director of Sustainability Tom Twist, Bates College, Sustainability ManagerDan Dixon, University of Maine-Orono, Sustainability Director Karina Graeter, University of Maine-Orono, Sustainability Coordinator Alethea Cariddi, University of New England, Sustainability Coordinator Steve Kahl, Thomas College, Associate Professor of Science Jen Kleindienst. Wesleyan University, Sustainability Director Jennifer deHart, Unity College, Chief Sustainability Officer

Monday June 17th, 20193:00-5:00pm Registration (Abromson Community Center First Floor Lobby) Pre-Conference Session4:00-5:15pm Climate Resilience Planning by Ruby Woodside from Second Nature (Rooms 109/110)5:30-6:30pm Catered Sustainable Feast (Abromson Community Center First Floor Lobby)6:30-8:00pm Welcome Remarks and President’s Panel (Hannaford Hall)8:30pm Novare Res Bier Cafe (4 Canal Plaza Suite 1, Portland, ME 04101) Tuesday June 18th, 20197:30-9:00am Attendees are encouraged to eat breakfast on their own in Portland. 8:00-9:00am Registration (Abromson Community Center First Floor Lobby)8:00-8:30am Optional Campus Tour (Meet in Abromson Community Center First Floor Lobby)9:05-9:15am Welcome, housekeeping, kickoff (Abromson Community Center First Floor Lobby)Sessions I9:20-10:20am Beyond Diversion: The New Zero Waste Roadmap Strategy (Room 109)9:20-10:20am The Elephant in the Room: Carbon Neutral Heating (Room 110)10:20-10:35am Morning Snack/Break (Abromson Community Center First Floor Lobby)Sessions II10:40-11:40am Biomass on Campus (Room 109)10:40-11:40am Community Engagement Tools to Create an Inclusive and Just Built Environment (Room 110)Sessions III11:45am-12:45pm Educational Terroir: The Power of Place in Program Development (Room 109)11:45am-12:45pm Carbon Offsets-Voluntary Carbon Market (Room 110)12:45-1:45pm Lunch (2nd Floor Mezzanine) Sessions IV1:50-2:50pm Communicating Recycling (Room 213)1:50-2:50pm  Campus Opportunities for Passive House (Room 216)2:55-3:10pm Afternoon Snack/Break (2nd Floor Mezzanine) 3:15-4:15pm 20/20/20 Roundtables (Rooms 214/215)4:20-5:00pm Wrap up and Passing the Baton (2nd Floor Mezzanine) 6:00pm Meet for Optional Dinner Outing at Local 188 (685 Congress St, Portland, ME 04102)

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Welcome Remarks and Presidents Panel

Session DescriptionsMonday June 17th, 2019 Pre-Conference Session 4:00-5:15pm"Climate Resilience Planning." Ruby Woodside Many campuses are in different stages of climate resilience planning. Ruby will provide a very brief overview onSecond Nature’s framework for resilience planning, and introduce the various tools, templates, and guidancedocuments available for campus use. Participants will walk through one or two exercises that will help applyresilience themes on campus. One focuses on stakeholder identification, and one focuses on goal setting forresilience. Tuesday June 18th, 2019 Sessions I 9:20-10:20am"Beyond Diversion: The New Zero Waste Roadmap Strategy." Alex Freid This interactive session will walk participants through the steps to creating a Roadmap to Zero Waste specific toyour campus. We’ll address the key pieces involved in developing a plan including materials managementinfrastructure, stakeholder input, identifying existing initiatives and determining opportunities forimprovement. Attendees will use a sample Atlas tool to conduct a brief initial assessment of their campusprograms, and then work with presenters to create a list of recommendations that they can begin to utilize indeveloping a campus-wide Zero Waste Plan. In addition, we will discuss how to determine which projects toprioritize, garnering administrative support, and ensuring that your plan encompasses realistic goals for yourcampus. "The Elephant in the Room: Carbon Neutral Heating." Tina Woolston, Dano Weisbord, Mike WaltersSynthetic PPAs have made it easy to procure green electricity, but how do you reach carbon neutrality when youburn fossil fuels on campus to heat and cool your buildings? A panel of sustainability officers and energyconsultants will discuss how they are addressing this problem and what unique challenges and opportunitiesare available in the Northeast.

Keynote Dr. Glenn Cummings, President of the University of Southern Maine, will be delivering the keynote addressand moderating the Presidents Panel. He has been President of USM for four years. President's Panel James Herbert, Ph.D, President of the University of New England, is coming up on his third year as theUniversity's President. Clayton S Rose Ph.D., President of Bowdoin College, has served as President since 2015.

Welcoming Remarks Aaron Witham who has been directing the Office of Sustainability at USM for three years Sandra Basset is the Team Lead of Maine-Wabanaki REACH Organization

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Session DescriptionsTuesday June 18th, 2019 Sessions II Sessions II 10:40-11:40am"Biomass on Campus." Sandy Beauregard, Tom Twist Bates College has begun burning a new, wood-based liquid fuel in its central steam plant - the first college in thecountry to do so. This new fuel, called Renewable Fuel Oil, has an extremely low carbon lifecycle emissionsprofile. It has been an integral part of the College's ability to make large strides towards our Carbon Neutralitypledge of 2020. Colby College completed a biomass-fueled addition to the campus central heating plant in 2012.The switch to locally-sourced wood chips eliminated approximately 900,000 gallons of number 6 oil per yearand reduced Colby’s greenhouse gas emissions by 53%. This was a key part of our achieving carbon neutrality in2013. Presenters will discuss the two different approaches to biofuels, the pros and cons of each, lessons learned,impact of GHG emissions, and factors that influenced the fuel choice. "Community Engagement Tools to Create an Inclusive and Just Built Environment." Sarah Draper, CarolineBruno, Meg Bossong, Mike Evans While environmental and financial sustainability are well understood in the context of sustainability in highereducation, social sustainability - or social equity and justice - has historically been left out of the campussustainability conversation.  Social equity at colleges and universities can include issues such as diversity andinclusion for students, faculty, and staff, physical accessibility, financial accessibility, transparency and process,town-gown relationships, belonging, physical safety, governance, access to services, and more. Hampshire andWilliams Colleges have been trying different tools in order to broaden and deepen the conversation about theseequity issues as they relate to the built environment.  In this session, staff involved in soliciting input andfacilitating these conversations will share the tools they used, lessons learned, and how they used the results toinfluence policies on their campuses. Sessions III 11:45-12:45pm"Educational Terroir: The Power of Place in Program Development." Laura Braasch, Madison Sabol, Jenna MuscoIn this session, we will explore the concept of “educational terroir” and how it can be used to amplify the impactof experiential learning programs and to generate tangible sustainability progress in your institution’s region &community. Participants will engage in active discussion to identify the educational terroir of the northeast,their specific state, city, and community and apply these ideas in ways that advance your institution’ssustainability goals and core educational mission. We will start the presentation with a powerpoint presentationoutlining this concept and how we have integrated it into our programs at Dartmouth. We will then breakattendees into several small group discussions that will focus on what makes for impactful program design.Attendees will leave with concrete action items to take back to their schools.  "Carbon Offsets-Voluntary Carbon Market." Ruby WoodsideThis session will provide a brief “Voluntary Carbon Market 101” that covers the general state of the carbon marketat a high level. This will introduce the main standards, types of projects, average prices, and criteria to considerwhen evaluating carbon offset projects. There will also be time to discuss how to develop a carbon offset projectusing examples from other campuses.

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Session Descriptions

Current trends in behavior change outreach and efficacy-Christina Erickson Utilizing renewable energy purchasing agreements to meet climate goals-Rochelle Owen, Steven MLanou, and Susanne Fratzscher How the changing recycling industry is impacting your university-Karina Graeter Carbon accounting - best practices and common questions-Debra Shepard A collaborative approach on solar research: The New England College Renewable Partnership-LarissaHolland, Dano Weisbord, & Mike Evans Challenges, successes, and best practices for peer-to-peer student engagement-Tom Dolloff (student)

Sessions IV 1:50-2:50pm"Communicating Recycling." Lisa Nicolaison This session will engage NECSC members in finding solutions and best practices in recyclingcommunications that can be modified for use at any institution in the Northeast. Prior to theconference, attendees (and institutions not able to attend) will be encouraged to send digital copies oftheir recycling messaging (posters, trainings, bin design, campaigns, etc.) which will then be displayedand used for discussion. Using the campus as a lab, attendees will also be asked to observe and critiquethe current signage of the conference and host institution to discuss which elements are effective andwhich are not, and develop recycling messaging guidelines or best practices that could be implementedat any institution - and if possible, to be used at the remainder of the conference. "Campus Opportunities for Passive House." Keisha Payson, Michael Pulaski, Sean Landry, Mike EvansThe Passive House standard is rapidly emerging as the Go-to standard for high efficiency student housingprojects. But how is Passive House different than your typical construction? Where are the costs andtradeoffs, and what project types does it make sense to apply Passive House to? This presentation will pulllessons learned, from multiple examples of Passive House projects, from various New England basedcolleges and universities. We will share how these projects came to fruition, what envelope systems andmechanical systems were used, and how the Passive House metrics drive different design parameters,decision making, and place a much stronger emphasis on envelope design/ commissioning and airtightness.

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Roundtable Topics