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COMMITTEE MEETING JANUARY 29, 2018 OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY Housed under Facilities Services Full-time Sustainability Coordinator 1 General Sustainability Intern: volunteer Open recruitment now for Spring Semester (apps due

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COMMITTEE MEETING

JANUARY 29, 2018

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OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY

Housed under Facilities Services

Full-time Sustainability Coordinator

1 General Sustainability Intern: volunteer

Open recruitment now for Spring Semester (apps due to SLICE today - deadline extended to Feb 19).

3 Landscape Interns: paid (grant-funded)

Visit the “Green Cave” at NSM F-127!

Left to right: Landscape Interns-Hugo, Alicia, Hawk, and Sustainability Intern Brandon

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AGENDA

Report on projects & progress

Sustainability initiatives

AASHE STARS Reporting Findings

Working Group Updates: Earth Day Planning, Academic Infusion, Sustainable Landscape

Upcoming Events

Open Discussion

Feedback and opportunities for collaboration

New ideas

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ENERGY- 1 MW BATTERY STORAGE

  • Fully installed and operational as of January 2018
  • Has already won two awards:
  • 2nd place at Toro Tank Competition
  • 2018 Smart Energy Decisions Innovation

Award (Onsite Renewable Energy Category)

  • Provides significant peak demand savings & grid

reliability.

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WATER- UTILITY ASSESSMENTS

Met with Cal Water before the winter break

Scheduling meeting for Cal Water and West Basin (reclaimed)- potential irrigation assessment, rebates, and retrofit programs.

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RECYCLING UPDATE- EXTERIOR RECYCLING

Sustainability Assessment Findings (Waste Sort component):

NSM (with recycling dumpster): even without active publicity & education, surprisingly good diversion and low contamination rate

SBS (without recycling dumpster, on the way): almost 75% of the trash is recyclable. Optimistic about results once recycling dumpster is delivered!

Exterior Recycling:

Mostly labeled/three-bin system- landfill, mixed recycling, cans & bottles

Dumpsters almost all in place: NSM, Theater, LCH, Extended Ed, CDC/ITC; SBS on the way.

GEO 420 assistance (recycling evaluation as part of service-learning requirement)

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RECYCLING UPDATE- INTERIOR RECYCLING

More bins are clearly needed

Coca Cola and CALL grant for this were declined.

PepsiCo still TBD

Looking into CalRecycle resources and evaluating final counts

Rubbermaid assessment (just last week)

Working on streamlining centralized locations on each floor and picking out a common design that functions well and looks good.

Data is power: sustainability assessments, Rubbermaid rep (quotes/cost), Recycling Coordinator maps/floorplans.

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RECYCLING UPDATE- EDUCATION & OUTREACH

New Sustainability campus-wide e-mail address in the works

Recycling guidance will be the first order of business (locations, accepted materials, etc.)

March Race to Reduce: week 1 (March 5 and 8, recycling sort activity, railing in front of LSU)

Some guidance in New Employee Orientation (Green Guides)

Working on trying to get training into New Student Enrollment

Applying for division grant to go to each department

PepsiCo Grant would also provide paid student interns to go door to door.

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CAMPUS FARM UPDATE

WRPI Internship- paid intern provided, CALL Grant awarded

Cabinet Meeting Review for final approval (Monday)

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ACADEMICS

Currently Scheduled:

CHEM 108 – Energy Efficiency 101 lecture and tour of Central Plant

GEO 420- Recycling presentation and GIS project to map recycling bins

Pending:

Central Plant Tour for Sports Management Class

Others?

Garden Syllabus Workshop & Academic Working Group Lunch– February 9, 11am-1pm @ Faculty Dev Center

Attend one or the other or both, RSVP here: https://csudhsustainabilitycurriculum.eventbrite.com

Also plan to reach out to the Academic Senate to get on agenda for upcoming meeting.

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AASHE STARS REPORTING UPDATE

Majority of questions left involve institutional stats, academic structure/research questions, OH&S, and Dining (March 2nd deadline for consideration for STARS, Princeton Review, and Sierra Cool Schools rankings).

Looking at end of semester submittal, or postponing if information gaps are too great to get a ranking.

Challenges include: institutionalizing best practices into policy documents, aligning information gathering with current reporting and data, and completing projects that are in progress (i.e. sustainability report, Tree Campus USA, etc.)

Academic Inventory (draft) complete: ~5% of undergraduate courses and 1% of graduate courses integrate sustainability and/or are sustainability courses.

Discuss further with Academic Working Group at meeting on February 9 and engage Academic Senate in February.

Will post draft of inventory on website.

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WORKING GROUP UPDATES

Identified Topics:

Sustainable Landscape Working Group- meeting on Thursday, feedback already being integrated in new Housing project.

Academic Infusion/Faculty Working Group

February 9 meeting to discuss AASHE STARS academic inventory findings.

Follows February 9 meeting to discuss garden curriculum

Both events at Faculty Development Center (11-noon, noon-1pm): RSVP here (https://csudhsustainabilitycurriculum.eventbrite.com)

Earth Day Working Group

Committee meets 1st Wednesdays, 1pm at SLICE Conference Room- Next meeting is Wednesday, February 7 @ 1pm.

Space (East and West Walkways) already booked for Thursday, April 19, 2018.

Sign up with and/or reach out to Ellie Perry at eperry@csudh.edu or call x2303

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UPCOMING EVENTS (1/2)

Green Career Panel: Tuesday, January 30th 4-5:30pm (LSU)

Garden Volunteer Days: Friday, Feb 2nd 1-4pm, and Sat, Feb 3rd 9am-1pm (campus gardens)

Sign up at: https://csudhgardenday.eventbrite.com

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UPCOMING EVENTS (2/2)

Faculty Syllabus Workshop for Gardens/Working Group Lunch: February 9 (11am-1pm)

Earth Science Club Speaker Event (Govt. Science): Wednesday, February 21st 2:30-3:45pm (SBS D225)

March Race to Reduce Month: Mondays/Thursdays in March

LSU Tablings (11:30am-1:30pm)- 5 & 8 Recycling sorting station (Week 1), 12 & 15 Photobooth Pledges (Week 2)

Central Plant (9am-11am)- 19 & 22 BIY Bike Blender Smoothies (Week 3)

Energy competition for Housing Phase I residents throughout March.

Green Hero Award Nominations for staff and faculty (raffle for solar cart retrofit)- awarded at Earth Day

Earth Day: Thursday, April 19th 2018

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OTHER UPCOMING PROJECTS

AASHE STARS Reporting

May receive additional requests for information (spread across multiple departments)

Working Group Projects: Sustainable Landscape Plan, Earth Day

Greater support for and involvement with auxiliaries: Dining & Housing

Recycling, composting (Dining), and education programs

Address special waste streams

Collaborative education campaigns and initiatives

Spring semester programming: March Race to Reduce & Earth Day

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OPEN DISCUSSION

Q&A

Feedback

New Ideas

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NOTES

Master Plan Town Hall Meeting coming up on Monday, February 12th 2pm-4pm at LSU. Please provide feedback via the link before the meeting: https://www.csudh.edu/fpcm/campus-master-plan-update/

Volunteer Sustainability Intern Positions- recruitment extended to February 19th (descriptions available at: https://www.csudh.edu/sustainability/take-action/)

Campus Gardens Volunteer Days: Friday, February 2nd 1-4pm and Saturday, February 3rd 9am-1pm

Sign up here: https://csudhgardenday.Eventbrite.com

Faculty Syllabus Workshop for Gardens/Working Group Lunch: February 9th (11am-1pm)

Sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gardens-as-a-living-laboratory-syllabus-workshop-academic-infusion-

lunch-tickets-42238363081

Earth Science Club Speaker Event (Govt. Science): Wednesday, February 21st 2:30-3:45pm (SBS D225)