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1 June 26th through June 30th 2016 California Higher Education Sustainability Conference Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas into Action Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 1

2 Dedicated to higher education. Supporting environmental sustainability. CHESC 2016 Fullerton, CA June 26 th 30 th Office Depot is a trademark of Office Depot, Inc. OfficeMax is a trademark of OMX, Inc Office Depot, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

3 June 26th through June 30th 2016 California Higher Education Sustainability Conference Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas into Action Contents Welcome Letter Sponsors Schedule at a Glance Campus Map Conference Calendar Program Labels CSU Fullerton Sustainability Accomplishments Best Practice Award Winners Poster Descriptions Conference Program Pre-Conference Workshops & Tours Tuesday Program Wednesday Program Post-Conference Workshops & Tours Host Committee Steering Committee Passport Prize System Sponsor & Exhibitor Descriptions Acknowledgements California Higher Education Sustainability Conference 1

4 Welcome Letter Dear California Higher Education Sustainability Conference Attendees, On behalf of our faculty, staff, and nearly 39,000 students, welcome to California State University, Fullerton for the 2016 California Higher Education Sustainability Conference! We are honored to welcome our neighboring campuses and pleased to work collaboratively with each of you in an effort to lead the nation in innovative best practices in sustainability. Cal State Fullerton is a diverse, student-centered academic community ranked first in California in conferring bachelor s degrees to Latinos and fifth in the nation in graduating underrepresented students of color. Our efforts to build upon this success through equitable access to higher education is matched only by our goal to ensure the classrooms and campus at which our diverse students pursue their academic goals are energy efficient, sustainable, and ecologically-friendly. Our Center for Sustainability in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences; the Engineering and Sustainability Services unit in the Division of Administration and Finance; and the rest of our innovative faculty, staff, and students are achieving remarkable results in this arena, as evidenced by Cal State Fullerton exceeding the 28 percent water usage reduction goal mandated by the governor and, of course, the Best Practice Awards we are being honored with at this conference. I know every campus represented here will share similar points of pride, and together, we can and will build upon our collective success to ensure our institutions and the graduates they produce remain on the cutting edge of sustainability, thereby creating a brighter future for the planet and everyone who calls it home. Sincerely, Mildred García, Ed.D. President California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

5 Sponsors Platinum Sponsor Silver Sponsors Green Sponsor Community Sponsors In Kind Sponsors Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 3

6 Schedule at a Glance Monday, June 27th, 2016 Time Activity Location 7:00am - 9:00am Breakfast for Attendees Staying On-campus CSU Fullerton Student Housing, The Gastronome 7:00am - 8:00pm Registration Titan Exercise Sports Field 8:30am - 5:00pm Pre-conference Workshops and Field Trips Various 4:00pm - 6:00pm VIP Reception Golleher Alumni House 5:00pm - 8:00pm Opening Reception Brought to You by Office Depot/ OfficeMax Titan Exercise Sports Field 7:40pm - 9:15pm Steering Committee Dinner Bruno's Italian Kitchen, Brea; Meet at Parking Lot E for the Shuttle Tuesday, June 28th, 2016 Time Activity Location 7:00am - 9:00am Breakfast for Attendees Staying On-campus CSU Fullerton Student Housing, The Gastronome 7:00am - 7:30pm Registration Titan Exercise Sports Field 8:00am - 9:30am Opening Keynote with A.G. Kawamura Clayes Performing Arts Center (CPAC), Meng Hall 9:30am - 10:15am Morning Networking Break Titan Exercise Sports Field 10:15am - 11:30am Sessions A: Panels Various Locations 11:45am - 12:15pm Sessions B: Stand-alone Presentations Various Locations 12:15pm - 1:30pm Lunch Brought to You by Green Charge Networks Titan Exercise Sports Field 1:30pm - 2:45pm Sessions C: Panels Various Locations 3:00pm - 3:30pm Sessions D: Stand-alone Presentations Various Locations 3:30pm - 4:30pm Afternoon Networking Break Titan Exercise Sports Field 4:30pm - 5:45pm Sessions E: Panels Various Locations 6:00pm - 7:00pm Awards Reception Titan Exercise Sports Field 7:00pm - 9:00pm Awards Banquet (This Dinner is Sponsored by SunPower) Titan Exercise Sports Field California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

7 Wednesday, June 29th, 2016 Time Activity Location 7:00am - 9:00am Breakfast CSU Fullerton Student Housing, The Gastronome 7:00am - 3:00pm Registration Titan Exercise Sports Field 8:00am - 9:15am Sessions F: Panels Various Locations 9:15am - 10:15am Morning Networking Break Titan Exercise Sports Field 10:15am - 11:30am Sessions G: Panels Various Locations 11:30am - 1:00pm Lunch brought to You by Enlighted Titan Exercise Sports Field 1:00pm - 2:15pm Sessions H: Panels Various Locations 2:25pm - 3:10pm Sessions I: Taking Action Various Locations 3:20pm - 4:05pm Sessions J: Taking Action Various Locations 4:15pm - 5:15pm 5:00pm - 8:00pm 5:30pm - 8:00pm Wed. 5:30pm - Thurs. 12:00pm Closing Keynote Dinner for Attendees Staying On-campus Sustainability Officers' Dinner Overnight Stay and Morning Hike at the Desert Studies Center Clayes Performing Arts Center (CPAC), Meng Hall CSU Fullerton Student Housing, The Gastronome El Torito Grill in Brea; Meet at Lot E for the Shuttle Meet at Parking Lot E 7:00pm - 9:30pm Documentary Film Night Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion A Thursday, June 30th, 2016 Time Activity Location 7:00am - 9:00am Breakfast CSU Fullerton Student Housing, The Gastronome 7:00am - 2:00pm Registration Titan Exercise Sports Field 7:30am - 5:00pm Post-conference Workshops and Field Trips Various Locations 5:00pm - 8:00pm Dinner for Attendees Staying On-campus CSU Fullerton Student Housing, The Gastronome Friday, July 1st, 2016 Time Activity Location 7:00am - 9:00am Breakfast CSU Fullerton Student Housing, The Gastronome Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 5

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9 Campus Map ASSOCIATED AF Anderson Field B Bookstore/Titan Shops Y O R B A L I N D A B L V D BA Becker Amphitheater A PARKING (NOT FOR CHESC) G PARKING (NOT FOR CHESC) ARBORETUM ENTRANCE BGC Greenhouse Complex CC Children s Center CJ Carl s Jr. CP College Park CPAC Clayes Performing Arts Center GF FULLERTON ARBORETUM CY Corporation Yard CS Computer Science TS DBH Dan Black Hall E Engineering STUDENT UNION WAY s DOROTHY LANEs S T A T E C O L L E G E B L V D P CORPORATION DRIVE UP CY GYMNASIUM DRIVE ARTS DRIVE SCPS (NOT FOR CHESC) TITAN STUDENT UNION (TSU) VA R CC NPS (NOT FOR CHESC) BA WEST CAMPUS DRIVE FACILITIES MANAGEMENT (FM-A) ALUMNI HOUSE LEED GOLD REC CENTER (SRC) ROCK SWALE MENG HALL C PARKING (NOT FOR CHESC) B COMMONS CLAYES PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (CPAC) BGC TITAN EXERCISE SPORTS FIELDS KINESIOLOGY & HEALTH SCIENCE (KHS) MH DBH PL AF EXHIBIT HALL QUAD LH H UH TH SHCC EC VISITOR WAY STEVEN G. MIHAYLO HALL (SGMH) (RGC) E ECS CS I PARKING (NOT FOR CHESC) F PARKING (NOT FOR CHESC) N U T W O O D A V E CJ ORANGE ORCHARD PINE HALL - LEED PLATINUM STUDENT HOUSING FOLINO DRIVE RH LEED PLATINUM HOUSING (SH) G170 LOADING / UNLOADING CHESC HOUSING LEED PLATINUM GASTRONOME SHUTTLE PICKUP LOT E CHESC PARKING SOLAR ARRAY (EPS) (NO CHESC PARKING) MARRIOTT 5 7 F R E E W A Y EC Education-Classroom ECS Engineering & Computer Science EPS Eastside Parking Structure G Golleher Alumni House GF Goodwin Field H Humanities-Social Sciences KHS Kinesiology & Health Science LH Langsdorf Hall MH McCarthy Hall P Parking & Transportation Office RH Residence Halls PL Pollak Library R Receiving RGC Ruby Gerontology Center SHCC Student Health & Counseling Center SGMH Mihaylo Hall SH Student Housing SRC Student Rec Center TG Titan Gymnasium TH Titan House TS Titan Stadium TSU Titan Student Union UH University Hall UP University Police VA Visual Arts NPS Nutwood Parking Structure SCPS State College Parking Structure 1008 TITAN C O M M O N W E A L T H LANGSDORF HOLIDAY INN Parking Information Center Site Entrance Conference Location Site of Interest CHESC Parking & Loading Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 7

10 California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

11 Conference Calendar Sunday, June 26th, 2016 Time Activity Location 1:00pm - 5:00pm 2:00pm - 11:00pm 5:00pm - 8:00pm CSU Sustainability Minor Meeting (Invitation-only) Housing Check-in for Attendees Staying On-campus Dinner for Attendees Staying in On-campus Housing Titan Student Union, Portola Pavillion C CSU Fullerton Student Housing, G170 The Gastronome, CSU Fullerton Housing Monday, June 27th, 2016 Time Activity Location 7:00am - 9:00am Breakfast for Attendees Staying in On-campus Housing The Gastronome, CSU Fullerton Housing 7:00am - 8:00pm Conference Registration Titan Exercise Sports Field 7:00am - 11:00pm 8:30am - 12:30pm Housing Check-In for Attendees Staying On-campus Sustainability Officers Workshop (Invitation-only) CSU Fullerton Student Housing, G170 Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion A 9:00am - 4:00pm CSU Living Lab Workshop (Invitation-only) Holiday Inn, Fullerton 9:00am - 4:00pm 10:30am - 5:30pm 12:00pm - 4:00pm 1:00pm - 5:00pm 1:00pm - 5:00pm 1:00pm - 5:00pm Sustainable Transportation and Water Management in Orange County Bike Tour University of California Global Food/Carbon Neutrality Initiatives Fellows Symposium (Invitation-only) Energy Resource Center (ERC) Guided Tour Striving for Zero Waste at Colleges and Universities Finding Synergy: Connecting the Work of Diversity & Sustainability Upper Newport Bay Kayak Tour Meet at Parking Lot E, CSU Fullerton Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion C Meet at Parking Lot E, CSU Fullerton Facilities Management, T-2000, FM-A 120 Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion A Meet at Parking Lot E, CSU Fullerton 4:00pm - 6:00pm VIP Reception Brought to You by SunPower (Invitation-only) Golleher Alumni House 5:00pm - 8:00pm Opening Reception Brought to You by Office Depot/ OfficeMax Titan Exercise Sports Field 5:00pm - 8:00pm 7:40pm - 9:15pm Dinner for Attendees Staying in On-campus Housing CHESC Steering Committee Dinner The Gastronome, CSU Fullerton Housing Bruno's Italian Kitchen, Brea; Meet at Parking Lot E for the Shuttle Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 9

12 Tuesday, June 28th, 2016 Time Activity Location 7:00am - 9:00am Breakfast for Attendees Staying in On-campus Housing CSU Fullerton Housing, The Gastronome 7:00 am - 7:30 pm Conference Registration Titan Exercise Sports Field 7:00am - 11:00pm 8:00am - 9:30am Housing Check-in for Attendees Staying On-campus Opening Keynote: A.G. Kawamura CSU Fullerton Student Housing, G170 Clayes Performing Arts Center (CPAC), Meng Hall 9:30am - 10:15am Morning Networking Break Titan Exercise Sports Field 10:15am - 11:30am 11:45am - 12:15pm Sessions A: Panels Leaders in and Tools for Exceptional New Construction Projects University of California Climate Champions Present! Planning Sustainability: Across Campus and Community Integrating Campus Distributed Energy Resources: Renewables, Storage, and Microgrids Systemic Approaches to Substantially Increase Local Food Purchasing From Landscape to Labs; Large Scale Water Efficiency Projects with Immediate Results Teaching Sustainable Transportation through Campus and Community Partnerships Incorporating Sustainability into Campus Culture CSU Fullerton Sustainable Waste Tour Sessions B: Stand-alone Presentations The Closed Loop: Sacramento State Food Waste Diversion and Green Transportation Demand is Driving Growth in US Forestlands How to Evaluate Food Security in a Statewide University System Green Fund Campaigns: Starting or Renewing Your Sustainability Grant Fund Green Experiment: Planting the Seed of Sustainability through Cultural Change Campus-scale Water Stewardship: What Higher Education Can Learn from Airports Ruby Gerontology Center, Room 13 Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion A Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion C Kinesiology and Health Sciences, Room 199 Titan Student Union, Ontiveros Titan Student Union, Alvarado CSU Fullerton Student Housing, Pine 111 CSU Fullerton Student Housing, Pine 140 Titan Exercise Sports Field, Meet at the Entrance of Exhibit Hall Titan Student Union, Ontiveros CSU Fullerton Student Housing, Pine 140 Kinesiology & Health Sciences, Room 199 Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion C CSU Fullerton Student Housing, Pine 111 Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion A 12:15pm - 1:30pm Lunch Brought to You by Green Charge Networks Titan Exercise Sports Field 1:30pm - 2:45pm Sessions C: Panels Monitoring Your Way to Real Savings Comprehensive Steps toward Campus Carbon Neutrality Implementing the CSU Sustainable Food Policy Industrial Applications Ruby Gerontology Center, Room 13 Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion A Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion C Kinesiology and Health Sciences, Room California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

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15 Tuesday, June 28th, 2016 (Continued) Time Activity Location 1:30pm - 2:45pm 1:30pm - 3:30pm Sessions C: Panel Sessions Green Labs Waste and Energy: Creating a Sustainable Research Environment from Start to Finish Diverse Approaches to Addressing Student Food Insecurity COP 21: Directions, Issues, and Opportunities for Higher Education Social Impact through Sustainable Design Fullerton City Bike Tour Titan Student Union, Ontiveros Titan Student Union, Alvarado CSU Fullerton Student Housing, Pine 111 CSU Fullerton Student Housing, Pine 140 Titan Exercise Sports Field, Meet at the Entrance to the Exhibit Hall 3:00pm - 3:30pm Sessions D: Stand-alone Presentations STARS 2.0 to 2.1 Home Street Home: A Collaboration Between the Artistic Collective Home Street Home and the UCR Office of Sustainability Food Security On-campus and Abroad through Coffee UCSF Consolidate & Sort Waste Diversion Program Using Car-sharing Applications as Part of a Sustainable Campus Safe Ride Program When Free Stuff Leads to Less Stuff: Campus Reuse Depot Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion A Kinesiology & Health Science, Room 104 Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion C Kinesiology & Health Science, Room 199 CSU Fullerton Student Housing, Pine 140 CSU Fullerton Student Housing, Pine 111 3:30pm - 4:30pm Afternoon Networking Break Titan Exercise Sports Field 4:30pm - 5:45pm Sessions E: Panel Sessions Getting to the Gold: LEED TM Lessons Learned Partnerships for Action: Higher Education and Community- Engaged Learning for Sustainability Building Bridges; Environmental and Social Aspects of Sustainability Understanding the Role of Landscape and Irrigation on a College Campus Charting Courses for Changing Climate on Campus Engaging Students in a Sustainable Food System from Harvesting to Preparation Moving Towards Sustainable Transportation on Orange County Campuses Energy & Water Efficiencies Through Smart Laboratory Equipment Purchasing Campus Green Building Tour Featuring: Student Recreation Center and Facilities Management Office Ruby Gerontology Center, Room 13 Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion A Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion C Kinesiology and Health Sciences, Room 199 Titan Student Union, Ontiveros Titan Student Union, Alvarado CSU Fullerton Student Housing, Pine 111 CSU Fullerton Student Housing, Pine 140 Titan Exercise Sports Field, Meet at the Entrance of Exhibit Hall 6:00pm - 7:00pm Awards Reception Titan Exercise Sports Field 7:00pm - 9:00pm Awards Banquet (This Dinner is Sponsored by SunPower) Titan Exercise Sports Field 9:00pm -10:00pm Illuminate Your Night: An Evening Walkthrough of CSU Fullerton Lighting Titan Exercise Sports Field, Meet at the Entrance of Exhibit Hall Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 13

16 Wednesday, June 29th, 2016 Time Activity Location 7:00am - 9:00am Breakfast for Attendees Staying in On-campus Housing CSU Fullerton Student Housing, The Gastronome 7:00 am - 3:00 pm Conference Registration Titan Exercise Sports Field 7:00am - 11:00pm 8:00am - 9:15am Housing Check-in for Attendees Staying On-campus Sessions F: Panels Best Practice Winners in Lighting Design & Retrofit UC Santa Cruz Climate & Energy Strategy: A Roadmap to Carbon Neutrality CSUF Campus & Community Growth through Sustainability When Baselines Reset: Achieving Further Water Conservation Raising Awareness and Deciphering Certifications for Healthier and more Sustainable Animal Products Institutionalizing Sustainability with Innovative Student Engagement Approaches Moving Forward: Using Surveys to Better Understand Transportation Trends Sustainable Campus Housing & Gastronome Tour CSU Fullerton Student Housing, G170 Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion A Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion C Kinesiology and Health Sciences, Room 199 Titan Student Union, Ontiveros Titan Student Union, Alvarado CSU Fullerton Student Housing, Pine 111 CSU Fullerton Student Housing, Pine 140 Titan Exercise Sports Field, Meet at the Entrance of the Exhibit Hall 9:15am - 10:15am Morning Networking Break Titan Exercise Sports Field 10:15am - 11:30am Sessions G: Panels 2016 CA Energy Code Changes, a Step Closer to ZNE Industry Strategies for Food System Change Energy Technology, Management, Buildings and Behaviors to Address Climate Change Utilizing Communication for Strengthening Campus Sustainability Developing Policy and Fundraising Mechanisms for Electric Vehicle Charging Addressing LEED TM Topics Through Learning Lab Curricula Approaching Sustainability Through Curricular and Co-Curricular Implementations CSU Fullerton Drought Response: Landscape Upgrade and Smart Water Meter Tour Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion A Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion C Kinesiology and Health Sciences, Room 199 Titan Student Union, Ontiveros Titan Student Union, Alvarado CSU Fullerton Student Housing, Pine 111 CSU Fullerton Student Housing, Pine 140 Titan Exercise Sports Field, Meet at the Entrance of the Exhibit Hall 11:30am - 1:00pm Lunch Brought to You by Enlighted Titan Exercise Sports Field 1:00pm - 2:15pm Sessions H: Panels Revitalizing Retrofits for Building Operations and Management Innovative Energy Practices within the California Community College System Tactical Sustainability: Implementing Programs to Build Momentum and Engage Campus Stakeholders Putting Food Scraps to Work: From Composting to Closed Loop Aquaponic Systems Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion A Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion C Kinesiology and Health Sciences, Room 199 Titan Student Union, Ontiveros California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

17 椀渀昀漀䀀眀愀瘀攀瀀漀眀攀爀猀琀攀眀愀爀搀 挀漀洀眀愀瘀攀瀀漀眀攀爀猀琀攀眀愀爀搀 挀漀洀 Ranked #24 in the UI GreenMetric World University Ranking Undergraduate & graduate study abroad options in Sustainable Development & Environment Home to the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research Masters/PhD Programs in Desert Studies and Hydrology & Water Quality at the Albert Katz International School for Desert Studies Independent study/research opportunities W: E: T: Ext Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 15

18 Wednesday, June 29th, 2016 (Continued) Time Activity Location 1:00pm - 2:15pm 2:25pm - 3:10pm Sessions H: Panels (Continued) Learning Sustainability Through Social Justice Curriculum Logical and Sustainable Commutes: From Buses to EV Charging Stations A Collaborative Approach to Supplier Sustainability Scorecards Smartgrid: CSU Fullerton Solar and Trigen Fullerton Arboretum Tour Yoga, Well-Being, & a Sustainable Lifestyle Sessions I: Taking Action Challenges in Implementing Statewide Water Policies Campus Carbon and Nitrogen Footprint Data: Making Meaning, Making Progress Tiny House In My Backyard Health, Well-Being, & Sustainability: A Discussion for Inspired Action The UCI Garden Project: Promoting Sustainable Urban Gardening Fuel Cells 101: Mobile and Stationary Power Applications Titan Student Union, Alvarado CSU Fullerton Student Housing, Pine 111 CSU Fullerton Student Housing, Pine 140 Titan Exercise Sports Field, Meet at the Entrance of the Exhibit Hall Titan Exercise Sports Field, Meet at the Entrance of the Exhibit Hall Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion B Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion A Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion C Titan Student Union, Ontiveros CSU Fullerton Student Housing, Pine 111 CSU Fullerton Student Housing, Pine 140 Titan Student Union, Alvarado California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

19 Wednesday, June 29th, 2016 (Continued) Time Activity Location 3:20pm - 4:05pm Sessions J: Taking Action 4:15pm - 5:15pm 5:00pm - 8:00pm 5:30pm-8:20pm 5:45pm Wed - 12am Thurs 7:00pm - 9:30pm Food Security & Access in CA Higher Education Systems The Future of Green Labs Vision Carbon Neutral: Learning from Collaborative Planning on UC Campuses Leading the Charge to Sustainable Transportation Sharing Sustainability Stories through Student Filmmaking Closing Keynote With Marla Cone and CSU Fullerton President Garcia Dinner for Attendees Staying in On-campus Housing Sustainability Officers' Dinner (Invitation-only) Overnight Stay and Morning Hike at the Desert Studies Center Documentary Film Night Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion A Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion C Titan Student Union, Ontiveros CSU Fullerton Student Housing, Pine 140 CSU Fullerton Student Housing, Pine 111 Clayes Performing Arts Center (CPAC), Meng Hall CSU Fullerton Student Housing, The Gastronome El Torito Grill in Brea, 555 Pointe Drive; Meet at Parking Lot E for the Shuttle Meet at Parking Lot E Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion A Thursday, June 30th, 2016 Time Activity Location 7:00am - 9:00am Breakfast for Attendees Staying in On-campus Housing CSU Fullerton Student Housing, The Gastronome 7:00 am - 2:00 pm Conference Registration Titan Exercise Sports Field 7:00am - 11:00pm Housing Check-in for Attendees Staying On-campus CSU Fullerton Student Housing, G170 7:30am - 12:15pm Second Harvest Incredible Edible Farm Tour Meet at Parking Lot E 8:00am - 3:00pm Joint UC/CSU Energy Manager s Meeting (Invitation-only) Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion A 9:00am - 11:00am Mitigating Waste Impacts at the Olinda Landfill Meet at Parking Lot E 9:00am - 12:00pm 9:15am - 2:30pm 9:30am - 4:30pm 1:00pm - 5:00pm 5:00pm - 8:00pm Zero Net Energy & the School Community for Administrators & Stakeholders Student Convergence Zero Waste Business Associate (ZWBA) Scorecard Training Course Hands-on Waste Audit Dinner for Attendees Staying in On-campus Housing Golleher Alumni House Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion C CSU Fullerton Student Housing, Pine 140 Meet at Titan Exercise Sports Field CSU Fullerton Student Housing, The Gastronome Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 17

20 Program Labels In past years, registrants have given the CHESC Steering Committee feedback that indicates that it would be helpful to have more guidance about whether sessions are designed for a beginner or advanced audience. We found it difficult to categorize our sessions in this way, but we were still keen on tackling this challenge. With that in mind, we have developed a labeling system which includes two indicators: the jargon level and whether the practices presented offer low-hanging fruit or deep green solutions. Please see below for more detail: Jargon One specific concern that we have heard from past registrants is that sometimes the specialized terms and acronyms in a session can be difficult to follow for people new to the field. On the other hand, given the short presentation times and amount of material covered, presenters don t want to spend too much time explaining terms that registrants are likely to already know. To help registrants understand which sessions may be appropriate for them, we developed a three tier rating: Level 1 (General Audience): Limited or no jargon will be used in this session. Presenters will define acronyms before using them. This session is a great fit for a wide variety of people, ranging from those new to sustainability to more experienced attendees. Level 2 (Interdisciplinary Talk): Attendees of this session are assumed to be broadly familiar with the field of sustainability. Attendees may, however, be from many different job backgrounds and areas of expertise. Accordingly, some jargon and common acronyms will be used, however, these will be terms widely used in the sustainability field. Level 3 (Specialized Talk): Attendees of this session are expected to have expertise specifically related to the topic covered in the session or have done work related to this topic specifically. This session is not, however, restricted to professional staff, and a student leader who has been working closely with professionals in the field on this topic for some time may find value in this session California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

21 Low-Hanging Fruit vs. Deep Green Campuses attending the conference range from stakeholders who are just starting their first sustainability project to stakeholders who have been in the field and have been working on these issues for many years. We hope to ensure that there are some presentations which will help new-comers to get started, while still providing new ideas to the campuses that have continued to attend our event for many years and are constantly developing new initiatives. Level 1 (Low Hanging Fruit): Practices and initiatives highlighted in this presentation could be implemented by campuses just getting started or campuses that have been around for a while. Return on investment for these projects is generally fairly quick, and the practices are not too difficult to implement (at least at a pilot level). Level 2 (Ripening Efforts): For those campuses that have already implemented most of the low-hanging fruit and who want to start reaching a little higher, this will be a great session. The practices highlighted will be challenging to implement, and the returns won t be as quick, but they are well worth the effort. Level 3 (Deep Green): Attendees who have attended many conferences and implemented several programs on their campuses will be excited to hear about the fresh new ideas in this session. These practices are ambitious and rare amongst campuses throughout the state. These practices will be difficult for a campus new to sustainability to adopt. Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 19

22 CSU Fullerton Sustainability Accomplishments California State University, Fullerton, has been recognized for its ongoing and long-standing efforts in sustainability. It has received two Silver STARS rankings for campus sustainability efforts. As a regional leader in sustainability, our campus continues on its path toward a more sustainable tomorrow, demonstrated through projects and programs for its campus and community: Green Buildings and Energy California State University, Fullerton has more than seven of its buildings either LEED TM rated or equivalent, including the third phase of student housing, which was the first student housing complex in California to be awarded a Platinum LEED certification by the U.S. Green Building Council. The university owns and operates a solar array that generates 1.16 megawatts (MW) of power, along with an additional 4 MW in-construction to be online by December 2016 through a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA). Additionally, the campus operates a tri-generation plant that utilizes primary energy through high-pressure natural gas and makes secondary energy as electricity from a 4.6 MW turbine. Furthermore, the turbine s waste heat is directed into two 1,310-ton absorption chillers to convert the heat to both, Heating Hot Water, and Chilled Water in order to heat and cool the campus buildings. The university recently converted 68,000 T8 fluorescent lamps to energy efficient LED s which has yielded a savings of 4 million kwh and $500,000 of annual energy savings. Waste Sustainable Waste Management Services strives to reduce the amount of waste generated through source reduction, recycling, reuse, and composting. This method of waste diversion generates a host of environmental, financial, and social benefits, including conserving energy, reducing disposal costs, and reducing the amount of waste that enter landfills. CSU Fullerton is committed to doing its part in support of the state of California s target of diverting 75% of California s waste from landfills by California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

23 Water To help meet the needs of the state during the drought, the campus has saved more than forty million gallons of water; installed cellular-based water meters to measure water usage; and has replaced eleven acres of turf with drought-resistant plants and water-absorbing ground cover. Furthermore, CSU Fullerton has installed low-flow faucet aerators, which save a gallon per minute during use. Outreach and Education Campus members and visitors can learn more about CSU Fullerton s sustainability efforts via an online map, and participate by using water bottle refill stations, recycling bins, and EV charging stations throughout the campus. CSU Fullerton s sustainability efforts do not stop there. More than 225 classes include lessons, training, and research in areas of sustainability. The University offers three undergraduate concentrations, two graduate programs, and certificate programs that are all sustainability-focused. CSU Fullerton has a number of community partnerships, including the Urban Agriculture Community-based Research Experience Program. Campus as a Living Lab Living Lab provides students with opportunities to apply theory to real world situations without having to leave campus. It not only strengthens problem-solving, but also reinforces the bond between the student and their campus while providing a greater understanding of and appreciation for the management and operation of a university campus. Partnerships in this program stretch across 6 colleges, involve more than 10 faculty in the second year of the program, and provide low-cost research opportunities to over 160 students. Transportation One DC Fast Charging and eleven Level II Electric Vehicle Charging Ports are available on campus and are provided at no cost to students, faculty, and staff. Thirty-five additional Level II EV charging ports are planned to be installed on campus by the end of this year. Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 21

24 2016 Higher Education Energy Efficiency and Energy Efficiency In New Construction or Major Renovation CSU East Bay, Student and Faculty Support CSU East Bay s Student and Faculty Support building replaces an obsolete building with five stories of new office and conference facilities. The project is designed to be highly energy efficient, saving over $100,000 in annual energy costs and using 50% less energy than the Title-24 baseline, when including production from the rooftop photovoltaic system. During the demolition of the existing building and construction of the replacement, over 75% of construction waste was diverted from landfill. The project s landscape design responds to its site by reducing disruption to natural water flows, and allowing for on-site infiltration of rainwater. The project reduced water use by 40% compared to the baseline, and is expected to achieve LEED TM Gold Certification. Presentation: Tuesday, June 28th, 2016, 10:15am - 11:30am, Ruby Gerontology Center, Room 13 UC Berkeley, Jacobs Hall The new Jacobs Hall at UC Berkeley houses collaborative, project-based educational spaces and aspires to be a symbol of the University s commitment to sustainable innovation. The project team raised the bar in terms of energy performance, selecting an ambitious target of exceeding the AIA 2030 Commitment goal by using 90% less energy than the national median for university buildings. To meet this goal, the project integrates many energy efficient strategies: a narrow floor plan to improve daylight harvesting and natural ventilation, external shading, ceiling fans, cool roofing, and a 74kW photovoltaic array that is expected to provide 58% of the building s energy requirement. An additional unusual strategy is to utilize surplus hot and chilled water when needed for space conditioning from an adjacent building. Presentation: Tuesday, June 28th, 2016, 10:15am - 11:30am, Ruby Gerontology Center, Room California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

25 Sustainability Best Practice Award Winners Energy Efficiency In Existing Buildings: HVAC Design/Retrofit And Commissioning Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Variable Chilled Water Pumping and Plant Optimization As part of a $4 million energy conservation project funded by PG&E, On Bill Finance, and a low interest CEC loan, Cal Poly implemented retrofits of multiple mechanical systems in 14 buildings and the central plant. The goal of the project was to maximize return on investment within the payback criteria of the loans, modernize chilled water pumping systems, optimize chiller plant operations, upgrade boiler controls, and pilot wireless pneumatic thermostats. The project is estimated to save 1,000,000 kwh and 47,000 therms annually, which is equivalent to savings of $128,000 per year. Presentation: Wednesday, June 29th, 2016, 1:00pm - 2:15pm, Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion A UC San Francisco, PSSRB Vivarium Monitoring-Based Commissioning Project The UC San Francisco PSSRB Vivarium Monitoring-Based Commissioning Project was initiated due to the high energy use intensity of the building as compared to others on campus. Through analysis of building operations and performance data, adjustments to ventilation rates based on occupied and unoccupied states were identified as the prime opportunity for energy savings. In the end, the verified annual electricity savings were three times more than initially estimated at almost 1,500,000 kwh, saving over $215,000 per year. Presentation: Tuesday, June 28th, 2016, 1:30pm - 2:45pm, Ruby Gerontology Center, Room 13 Energy Efficiency In Existing Buildings: Lighting Design & Retrofit CSU Fullerton, Campuswide LED Lighting Retrofit The campuswide LED lighting project consisted of retrofitting 68,000 interior, linear fluorescent lamps with an LED tube retrofit. By partnering with the local utility, Southern California Edison, CSU Fullerton received over $500,000 in incentives for the retrofit. In addition to the utility incentive, the expected annual energy savings for the project is Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 23

26 approximately 4 million kwh with cost savings of over $500,000. In order to fund a project at such a magnitude, CSU Fullerton piloted its first ever Green Revolving Fund (GRF); this fund lends itself to campuswide energy initiatives whereby the utility incentive and the annual energy savings will be allocated to the GRF to fund future energy projects. Presentation: Wednesday, June 29th, 2016, 8:00am - 9:15am, Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion A UC Santa Cruz, McHenry Library Lighting Retrofit & Optimization The UC Santa Cruz McHenry Library building was identified as an opportunity for a lighting retrofit project due to its high energy usage, long operating hours, and large areas within the building with very low occupancy. The project team implemented an LED conversion on most fixtures in the building as well as controls upgrades or modifications in select areas. The design took a simple approach by converting fixtures with new controls in the stacks and modifying the programming for the existing controls in the rest of the building. The new controls in the stacks allow for demand-based lighting that make the stacks appropriately inviting when vacant and well-lit when occupied, while saving significant amounts of energy. Presentation: Wednesday, June 29th, 2016, 8:00am - 9:15am, Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion A Water Efficiency & Site Water Quality CSU Stanislaus, Cooling Tower Reclaimed Water Project The Cooling Tower Reclaimed Water Project consisted of converting the campus Central Plant cooling towers use of potable water to reclaimed rainwater instead using the existing extensive campus infrastructure of rainwater storage. The result of the project was a 22% monthly reduction in campus potable water usage, equating to approximately 5 million gallons annually. Another benefit of the project was a reduction in water and sewage costs due to decreased wastewater discharge to the city sewer system. The committee found this to be an exceptional project noteworthy for its regional significance. Presentation: Tuesday, June 28th, 2016, 1:30pm - 2:45pm, Kinesiology and Health Sciences, Room California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

27 Honorable Mention: CSU Fullerton, Drought Response During the 2015 mandatory California drought response, CSU Fullerton was required to reduce potable water usage by 28%. After evaluating existing water usage on campus and opportunities for reductions, two primary strategies were identified: sub-meter water sources to more accurately measure and manage future water usage and eliminate irrigation to over 11 acres of turf on campus to immediately reduce campus water usage and ultimately replace the turf with native and adaptive vegetation. In addition to the incredible 28% reduction in campus water use, the award panel was impressed by the cultural shift on campus to support the browning of campus. Presentation: Tuesday, June 28th, 2016, 10:15am - 11:30am, Titan Student Union, Alvarado UC San Diego, Reclaimed Water Pipeline Expansion and Central Plants Cooling Tower Retrofits The Cooling Tower Retrofit Projects at UC San Diego mark a significant and permanent reduction in potable water use. The reclaimed water supplied by the city of San Diego is now used as make-up water for the cooling towers at the campus two main central utilities plants, ultimately reducing potable water consumption at the towers by 80%. In addition to the cooling tower retrofits, UC San Diego installed nearly a mile of new reclaimed water pipeline to meet irrigation needs. These two projects will save more than 100 million gallons of potable water annually. Presentation: Tuesday, June 28th, 2016, 1:30pm - 2:45pm, Kinesiology and Health Sciences, Room 199 Innovative Waste Reduction CSU Sacramento, The Closed Loop: Sacramento State Food Waste Diversion and Green Transportation The CSU Sacramento Food Waste Diversion Program demonstrates innovative problem solving and systems thinking. CSU Sacramento sends their food waste to an external anaerobic biodigester, which converts the food waste to bio-cng (Compressed Natural Gas), which is then sold back to the university to fuel their campus shuttle buses. In Fall 2015, tons of food waste were diverted to bio-cng fuel, which the shuttle buses can use directly. Not only did CSU Sacramento divert significant amounts of food waste from landfill, more than metric tons of GHG emissions were avoided through the use of the bio-cng, thereby demonstrating the synergistic benefits of a closed loop system. Presentation: Tuesday, June 28th, 2016, 11:45am - 12:15pm, Titan Student Union, Ontiveros Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 25

28 UC San Francisco, Consolidate & Sort Waste Diversion Program UC San Francisco s robust Recycling and Waste Reduction Outreach Program has helped the campus move toward a 70% diversion rate. Achieving Zero Waste, however, will require more direct action. Through a grant from the city of San Francisco and with labor from San Francisco s Conservation Corps, materials left in trash bins are now sorted to further divert recyclable and compostable materials from the landfill. This process will save over one million pounds of material from ending up in the landfill. Presentation: Tuesday, June 28th, 2016, 3:00pm - 3:30pm, Kinesiology and Health Sciences, Room 199 Student Sustainability Leadership CSU Northridge, Sustainable Office Program Launched in 2014, the Sustainable Office Program provides education and valuable resources to help improve sustainability within office settings throughout the campus. The program is run by students and has assessed over 50 offices thus far, impacting faculty, students, and staff. Assessments are conducted by a group of trained students within the AS Recycling Team. The team communicates to designated staff and conducts a survey to evaluate existing practices and procedures in the workplace. Students then prepare a report assessing the sustainability measures in the office and recommending changes to help save water, energy, and waste. Presentation: Tuesday, June 28th, 2016, 10:15am - 11:30am, CSU Fullerton Student Housing, Pine 140 UC Riverside, Sustainability Liaison The Sustainability Liaison position was created by the Graduate Student Assembly in partnership with the Office of Sustainability in order to engage graduate students in the UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative and other sustainability programs. The graduate student government created this position to focus on addressing a variety of behaviors in laboratory settings that can help reduce energy consumption through ongoing education and resources. The Sustainability Liaison is also responsible for establishing a Graduate Sustainability Fund that will support future sustainability projects on campus. The committee appreciated this innovative approach to institutionalizing sustainability in hardto-reach laboratories and for engaging hard-to-reach graduate students in campus sustainability efforts. Presentation: Tuesday, June 28th, 2016, 10:15am - 11:30am, CSU Fullerton Student Housing, Pine California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

29 Sustainable Food Systems CSU Sacramento, A Multi-trophic Food Production System Integrating Aquaponics with Bio-waste Recycling This ambitious project, located on the CSU Sacramento campus, was designed to be a working model of a sustainable system, providing educational and community outreach opportunities on the principles of sustainability, the characteristics of sustainable food systems, and the benefits and opportunities in building sustainable communities. The working demonstration of a multi-trophic sustainable closed-loop system (MTSS) uses bio-wastes (green, brown, and food wastes) diverted from landfills as a resource to produce high quality protein feed through vermicomposting and insect farming to raise fish and plants for human consumption. The project measures the quantities of wastes diverted, the conversion efficiency to protein feed, and the quantities of food generated. Presentation: Wednesday, June 29th, 2016, 1:00pm - 2:15pm, Titan Student Union, Ontiveros Honorable Mention: CSU Northridge, Radioactive Seafood Market Three CSU Northridge art education professors collaborated to apply theory and practice for innovative thematic curricula, especially in the areas of the environment and sustainability. With a spotlight on the 2011 tsunami-damaged Fukushima nuclear reactors on the coast of Japan, students studied the environmental effects of radioactive contamination on sea life in the Pacific Ocean and ongoing problems and concerns for people in Japan, the United States, and beyond. Following research activities, students created mixed-media ocean creatures, culminating in a group exhibition entitled Radioactive Seafood Market. The exhibition functioned as a powerful visual-learning experience about art and global issues for both students and the viewing public. In addition, teachers and students from several elementary and high school classrooms participated in their own version of this unit, along with CSU Northridge pre-service teachers for high school and K-5. Presentation: Wednesday, June 29th, 2016, 8:00am - 9:15am, Titan Student Union, Alvarado UC Berkeley, Brown's a California Café In alignment with the goals outlined by the UC Global Food Initiative, Menus of Change and the UCOP policy for sustainable food, Brown s opened with the goal of serving food that is delicious, nutrient dense, and environmentally-friendly. Over 80% of the ingredients are sourced locally from within 250 miles of the UC Berkeley campus and 90% of the ingredients used are either locally grown or certified by a third party for sustainable practices. Berkeley nutritional science and toxicology lecturer, Kristen Rasmussen, led Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 27

30 the Cal Dining effort to visit farms throughout Northern California, develop recipes and assemble Brown s first locally-themed menu, with the top priority being deliciousness. Presentation: Tuesday, June 28th, 2016, 10:15am - 11:30am, Titan Student Union, Ontiveros Honorable Mention: UC San Francisco, Reduction of Meat and Poultry Products Raised with Non-therapeutic Antibiotics UC San Francisco Medical Center Nutrition and Food Services (NFS) is committed to the responsible sourcing of food for the patients and customers it services. NFS attempts to maximize its food budget dollars to promote public health through selective purchasing of sustainable foods. The goal of this project is to increase the percentage of purchased meat prepared without the use of non-therapeutic antibiotics. Strategies included networking with similar operators to identify common products, better understanding the local food systems and economics related to purchasing meat, and identifying and purchasing cost effective meat products to meet specifications and nutritional needs. Presentation: Wednesday, June 29th, 2016, 8:00am - 9:15am, Titan Student Union, Alvarado Sustainable Transportation CSU Fullerton, Battery Storage and EV Charging System As electric vehicle (EV) ownership increases and more universities look to install EV charging stations to support them, campus infrastructure and electrical supply issues are coming to the fore. Energy storage can play an important role in mitigating expensive power spikes caused by EV charging, especially with fast DC charging stations and large banks of level 2 stations. Given this, CSU Fullerton s Battery Energy Storage and EV Charging Integration Project paired a new Direct Current Fast Charging Station with a new 30 kwh Battery Energy Storage. Coupling these two emerging technologies showcases a unique solution to addressing the rising concerns around EV charging infrastructure. Presentation: Wednesday, June 29th, 2016, 1:00pm - 2:15pm, CSU Fullerton Student Housing, Pine 111 UC Santa Barbara, Partnering to Improve Alternative Transportation In an effort to reduce carbon emissions and vehicle traffic, UC Santa Barbara partnered with the Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District (MTD) to expand public transit to campus. Two existing Santa Barbara MTD routes were expanded and a brand new line California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

31 was created, allowing university students and employees to ride for free. UC Santa Barbara worked with MTD to promote the new lines, both on and off-campus, through signage and outreach. The partnership helps to reduce single-occupancy vehicle traffic and on-campus parking needs while avoiding roughly 200,000 student car trips in the program s first year alone. Presentation: Wednesday, June 29th, 2016, 1:00pm - 2:15pm, CSU Fullerton Student Housing, Pine 111 Sustainability Innovations CSU Chico, South Campus Neighborhood Project CSU Chico has launched a new partnership with the City of Chico focused on sustainability and the South Campus Neighborhood, a 42 square-block residential area directly adjacent to the University and downtown Chico. In an interdisciplinary approach to address real community sustainability issues in the classroom, the Institute for Sustainable Development coordinated faculty across a variety of departments and colleges to focus their academic expertise and students in their courses on different components of the neighborhood. The committee appreciated the partnership with the city and the interdisciplinary nature of the project as well as its potential wide impact. Presentation: Tuesday, June 28th, 2016, 1:30pm - 2:45pm, CSU Fullerton Student Housing, Pine 111 UC Santa Cruz, Roadmap to Carbon Neutrality by 2025 In 2013, UC President Janet Napolitano committed the UC system to reaching carbon neutrality by Around this time, UC Santa Cruz was beginning to consider the impacts of pending Cap & Trade regulation. UC Santa Cruz therefore invested in a comprehensive Climate & Energy Strategy (CES) to address how the campus could reach carbon neutrality by 2025 and mitigate the financial impacts of Cap & Trade regulation associated with campus growth. The resulting collaborative process developed an integrated and dynamic plan presenting an array of strategies that includes specific projects, policies and procurements; and detailed financial and emissions impacts and risks. Presentation: Tuesday, June 28th, 2016, 10:15am - 11:30am, Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion A Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 29

32 Honorable Mention: UC San Diego, Advanced Energy Storage: Reducing Peak Power and Increasing the Microgrid's Reliability California s Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) requires utilities to increase renewable sources to 33% by While this is major progress in the right direction, it presents significant challenges for utilities and grid operators given the intermittent nature of most renewable sources. Energy storage will therefore be a major part of the solution. UC San Diego has installed a 2.5 MW (5 MWh) advanced energy system, composed of lithium ion iron-phosphate batteries. This project saves money, improves the operation and reliability of UC San Diego s microgrid operation, and facilitates research and education on advanced energy storage. Presentation: Tuesday, June 28th, 10:15am - 11:30am, Kinesiology and Health Services, Room 199 Sustainability in Academics: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math CSU East Bay, Social Impact Through Sustainable Solar Design CSU East Bay s course Social Impact Through Sustainable Solar Design, was pioneered in Fall With an overarching goal of integrating sustainability and social justice into a single course, the specific objectives were to teach solar energy design, motivate STEM learning, inspire altruism, and engage students as local and global citizens. The committee looked favorably upon the high-impact courses, curriculum, and hands-on learning opportunities offered to students in the program. The intended educational goals and outcomes of the program (including among non-stem majors, particularly amongst traditionally underrepresented, female, and minority college students) were effectively combined with exposure to ethical issues as global and local citizens, and in motivating altruistic community involvement. Presentation: Tuesday, June 28th, 2016, 1:30pm - 2:45pm, CSU Fullerton Student Housing, Pine 140 UC Santa Cruz, Sustainability Studies & Sustainable Living Undergraduate Research Program In 2014, College Eight launched a minor in Sustainability Studies, to run for a three-year pilot phase. Not only is this minor designed to be highly interdisciplinary, it is also the first such college-sponsored degree program in several decades. The Sustainability Studies minor offers a model for new college-based undergraduate curricula and pedagogies and emphasizes the central academic role of UC Santa Cruz s college system on their campus. The committee felt that the program offered the strongest instance of a systems-focused educational offering, effectively combining classroom learning, service learning, and research and application. The program, moreover, is valuable in shaping a California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

33 curriculum which effectively articulates both the technical and societal complexity of the food-energy-water nexus challenge. Presentation: Wednesday, June 29th, 2016, 10:15am - 11:30am, CSU Fullerton Student Housing, Pine 140 Sustainability in Academics: Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences CSU San Marcos, Sustainability Experienced Through Interactive Design CSU San Marcos course, Sustainability Experienced Through Interactive Design, exposed students to the power of design in addressing real-world issues by creating projects that addressed local sustainability topics. Students chose an environmental issue and used art, web design, GIS, and video to illustrate both the problem and potential solutions. The project demonstrates how a course can help a campus or community design a complete communication and public relations campaign around an environmental issue. Presentation: Tuesday, June 28th, 2016, 1:30pm - 2:45pm, CSU Fullerton Student Housing, Pine 111 UC Irvine, Sustainability Initiative Community-engaged scholarship and practice are integral to UC Irvine s excellence as a research university. Housed within the Office of Academic Initiatives, the Sustainability Initiative fosters interdisciplinary and community-engaged scholarship on critical issues confronting society in pursuit of environmental balance, economic vitality, and social justice. The Initiative promotes collaborations within diverse communities on and off-campus in developing solutions to sustainability challenges affecting California and the globe. Together with campus partners, sustainability is infused into campus culture and systems, empowering students and faculty with the rich institutional history of impactful research. Programs include curricular and co-curricular education, student leadership training, internships, and international immersions. Presentation: Tuesday, June 28th, 2016, 1:30pm - 2:45pm, CSU Fullerton Student Housing, Pine 111 Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 31

34 Poster Descriptions CHESC Posters Sustainable Design Curriculum at College of the Canyons This poster will document the success and breadth of Sustainable design curriculum at College of the Canyons which introduces students to the fundamentals of sustainable development and Environmental Design. Courses explore various sustainable building strategies and technologies through lectures, analysis exercises, and a variety of design problems. Sustainability is explored in both broad and narrow terms, examining how its application to building design is shaped by culture, economics, politics, climate, energy systems, aesthetics, and city planning. Jason Oliver, AIA, LEED TM AP BD+C, Architecture Professor; Co-Chair, Sustainable Development Committee, College of the Canyons UC Riverside's Healthy Students, Healthy Campus, Healthy Communities GFI Lecture Series As part of the University of California's Global Food Initiative, UC Riverside's statewide lecture series will serve as a place to hear from a variety of different perspectives about how to increase the sustainability and health of the food supply. It will raise the profile of food issues as an integrated part of our daily lives starting locally, building globally. Gustavo Plascencia, General Manager, Dining Services, UC Riverside Sustainability Blitz: Measuring the Impact of Targeted Sustainability Lessons For the Spring 2016 semester, six community colleges participated in Sustainability Blitz, a program in partnership with the Climate Corps Fellowship program designed to introduce sustainability into core curriculum across multiple disciplines. Faculty from the community colleges were paired with two Climate Corps Fellows who teach a lesson integrated into the faculty member s course. We will present data measuring the change in students understanding of sustainability, as well as the impact on faculty and Climate Corps Fellows. Carina Anttila-Suarez, PhD, Professor, Biology, Skyline College California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

35 Allison Callow, Sustainability Coordinator, Science, Math, and Technology, Skyline College Stephen Miller, Deputy Director, Higher Education, Strategic Energy Innovations Carla Grandy, Faculty, Earth Science, Skyline College Raymond Hernandez, MPH, RRT, NPS, Dean, Science, Math, Technology, Skyline College Crossing Institutional Silos and Turning Operations into a Learning Lab This poster is about the ENV 498 Environmental Science and Policy Program Capstone Course. This class was designed to give students a real world consulting experience and produce good information that facilities (and others) could turn into actionable projects. This class is in its fourth iteration and has a list of completed projects that began as recommendations with waste and dining audits. Mackenzie Hope Crigger, MBA, LEED TM GA, Energy and Sustainability Manager, Facilities Management, Chapman University The Ecosystem-in-a-bottle Experiment The Ecosystem-in-a-bottle Experiment blends sustainability topics with high impact teaching practices to provide opportunities for students to engage in science in a manner that is personal, relevant, and accessible. Students investigate the processes that govern the growth of microalgae in microcosms with an eye towards the production of biofuels. Students also explore the nature of ecosystems by introducing sea monkeys into their experiment and conducting observations with their friends and families at home. We believe that a sustainability-transformed course inspires diverse students to engage in 21st century problems, and provides a model for teaching science. W. Sean Chamberlin, PhD, Professor, Earth Sciences, Fullerton College Learning By Doing: Assessing and Improving Sustainability at CSU Fullerton This poster provides results and student/faculty perspectives from an 8-week long study of the Campus as a Living Lab model. Students in an urban geography course evaluated the existing conditions of waste management and recycling in CSU Fullerton s McCarthy Hall. They asked the following three research questions: How is waste being sorted and managed? What are the missed opportunities in terms of recycling? What are the Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 33

36 perceptions and behaviors related to waste management and recycling among the students and staff? Surveys and a number of audits were used to answer these questions. The results provided evidence-based recommendations that could help CSU Fullerton s Facilities Management. Kristy Morehead, Recent Graduate, Geography, CSU Fullerton Maelynn Dickson, Graduate Student, Geography, Environmental Analysis Emphasis, CSU Fullerton Zia Salim, PhD, Assistant Professor, Geography, CSU Fullerton ULT Freezer Replacement Rebate Program The Office of Sustainability at UC San Francisco has collaborated with Facilities Services and PG&E to offer a rebate for the replacement of old, inefficient, ultra-low temperature freezers with the purchase of freezers that are at least 50% more energy efficient. Each freezer replaced translates into 5,840 kwh saved per year and over $800 saved per year in energy costs resulting in a payback period of less than 5 years. We expect to replace 25 freezers this year resulting in 146,000 kwh saved each year and over $245,000 in savings over the project s life cycle. Zachary Schoenrock, Sustainability Fellow, UC San Francisco UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative Fellows Posters Strategies for Meaningful Student Engagement in Carbon Neutrality Engaging students in developing lengthy and jargon-laden climate action plans can be a tricky process. This poster will highlight approaches to support student participation including: syncing the process with student schedules, creating opportunities for students to engage informally with peers, meeting with student organizations to see how their work correlates with the carbon neutrality goal, connecting with students in spaces familiar to them. In addition, through the Education for Sustainable Living Program, the interns created a class in which students are conducting feasibility studies on creative mitigation strategies to be included in the next Climate Action Plan revision. Colleen McCamy, UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative Fellow; Undergraduate Student, Environmental Studies, UC Santa Barbara California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

37 Students and the Path to Carbon Neutrality Students have a vital role to play in helping the UC system reach its goal of carbon neutrality. At UC Riverside in particular, over 30% of our CO2 emissions come from commuting. As a result, students will have to make changes if we want to reach true neutrality. How do students feel about this goal, and what kinds of changes are they willing to make to reach it? If the University is serious about keeping its commitment to carbon neutrality, the answers to these questions will need to be addressed and students will need to see how and why they can make a difference. Hannah Campi, UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative Fellow; Undergraduate Student, Environmental Science, UC Riverside Improved Business As Usual Forecasting in Climate Action Plans As a Climate Action Planning Fellow for UC Irvine, Kimberly Duong has focused on improving the forecasting for future carbon emissions in a "business-as-usual" scenario. A proxy for additional greenhouse gas emissions is the additional square footage of new buildings on the campus. Duong has weighed different categories of new buildings based on their energy demands and propagated these results into the future. There will also be an ensemble of carbon emission scenarios based on likelihood of future building development as time goes on. These methods are applied to the UC Irvine main campus, but can be translated to other campuses as well. Kimberly Duong, UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative Fellow; PhD Candidate, Civil Engineering, UC Irvine UC San Diego Sustainability Ambassador Program This poster will include the program developed for the UC San Diego Sustainability Office. The Sustainability Ambassadors Program is a registered campus student organization sponsored by the UC San Diego Sustainability Office. Based on the Carbon Neutrality Initiative, this program aims to educate and engage UC San Diego students through peer education and programming to raise awareness and incorporate culture, art, politics, and social justice into all disciplines within sustainability education. Ambassadors will be trained to educate other students on sustainability issues through workshops, projects, and social media engagement activities at the Sustainability Resource Center. Each Sustainability Ambassador will focus on one subject area to inform and engage the student population. Lesly Figueroa, UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative Fellow; Undergraduate Student, Urban Studies & Planning; Family Medicine & Public Health, UC San Diego Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 35

38 Warmer Climatic Conditions Affect Squash Growth, Pollination, and Production Climate warming is projected to increase over the current century. Among the many ecological changes expected from increased warming, altered conditions have the potential to disrupt mutualisms between flowering plants and their pollinators, and in turn, could negatively affect plant reproduction. We simulated climate warming on field-grown squash (Cucurbita pepo) using passive, open-top heating chambers. We monitored the effect of warming on squash growth and pollination by generalist (Apis mellifera) and specialist (Peponapis pruinosa) bee species. The chambers significantly elevated temperatures in all experimental groups. Overall, bee visits per flower per minute were significantly higher in the control groups. Jess Gambel, UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative Fellow; PhD Candidate, Biological Sciences, UC San Diego Measuring the Breathing of the Biosphere - Climate and Land Use Agriculture, deforestation, and land use change make up more than a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions but are poorly constrained; it is difficult to measure the continuous exchange of gases and energy between the heterogeneous land surface and the atmosphere. Using micrometeorological methods, the Berkeley Biometeorology Lab is working to characterize how wetland restoration of organic-rich peat soils in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta has the potential to sequester carbon and reduce GHG emissions. By incentivizing low-emission land use management with market mechanisms like California s cap-and-trade, ecosystems have the potential to be an integral part of the climate change solution. Kyle S. Hemes, UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative Fellow; PhD Candidate, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley; Ecosystem Sciences, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources Division Exploring Resiliency and Quantifying Solar Potential The first project covered by this poster is a comprehensive solar assessment of the UC Santa Barbara campus. While UC Santa Barbara continues to expand its on-site solar, an understanding of all the possible locations for solar and feasibility assessment of every site will assist in future projects, and allow for a more expansive conversation about the campus solar potential. The resiliency project considered the inevitable impacts of climate change such as sea level rise and shifting habitats. The Fellows collected information on the work already being done at UC Santa Barbara and initiated the drafting of UC Santa Barbara s first resiliency plan California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

39 Robert Holland, UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative Fellow; Student, Economics; Black Studies, UC Santa Barbara How to Improve Student Engagement in Carbon Neutrality and Sustainability: Inventory and Best Practices Sustainability-related student engagement activities are plentiful in the UC System. This project documented those activities in two ways: 1) completing an inventory of how widespread that the most common programs are across all UC campuses; and, 2) creating more in-depth case studies of select best practices from each campus. Sustainability representatives were surveyed to inventory the common activities. Additionally, representatives were guided through a program documentation process for their novel projects to make it easier for their colleagues at other campuses to replicate their good work. Lauren Jabusch, UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative Fellow, UC Office of the President; PhD Candidate, Biology and Agricultural Engineering, UC Davis Squash Carbon As a Student Engagement Fellow, this Fellow s role is to generate thought and discussion on the carbon intensity of students lifestyle choices. UC Los Angeles communication campaign has both long-term and short-term components. The short-term targets are green events for outreach and education. The long-term component of the communication includes planter signs throughout campus and a carbon neutrality banner placed on the northern steps of Wooden Center. The purpose of these activities is to close the gap between understanding that climate change is real and understanding the specific and severe impacts of climate change. Katie Luong, UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative Fellow; Undergraduate Student, Environmental Science, UC Los Angeles Getting Students Involved in Sustainability The bulk of this Fellow s work has been streamlining the platforms that advertise sustainability related events and opportunities on the UC Irvine campus. This has included management of a calendar, a weekly digest sent to students, and a student opportunities database for jobs, internships, and scholarships. The poster will highlight the progress the Fellow made throughout the year. Rebecca Neal, UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative Fellow; Graduate Student, Public Health, UC Irvine Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 37

40 EARTHEALTH1: Mobilizing Health Students and Professionals for Climate Action This poster will describe the branding campaign and outreach tools of the EARTHEALTH1 campaign aimed at creating climate awareness at UC San Francisco by targeting the latent cultural constructs and pre-existing strengths and identities of health trainees and faculty. It will describe how the guiding principles of excellent clinical medicine can be applied to constructive and motivating conversations and activism around climate action and sustainable health care. It will end with the next steps for the EARTHEALTH1 campaign, including a series of brief online videos that explain the personal, practical, political, and philosophical dimensions of innovation in sustainability and health. Alex Schrobenhauser-Clonan, UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative Fellow; Graduate Student, School of Medicine, UC San Francisco Water and Energy at UC Riverside: Managing Our Consumption A comprehensive study of potable and non-potable water usage at UC Riverside, in conjunction with the energy consumption associated with it, was conducted. Most institutions calculate the water-energy relationship using methodologies determined by energy companies and the California Energy Commission. Presented here is a validation of these models using data collected on campus for a three-year period. This project aims not only to understand and optimize energy consumption from a sustainability point of view, but also to simplify its intricacies from an education and engagement perspective. Benjamin Sommerkorn, UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative Fellow; PhD Candidate, Mechanical Engineering, UC Riverside Carbon Pricing at an Institutional Level to Achieve Carbon Neutrality Several states, institutions, and organizations, domestically and abroad, have instituted a variety of pricing mechanisms such as a carbon tax and carbon cap-and-trade. Carbon pricing holds emitters responsible for not growing emissions, as well as for reducing use gradually over time. Pecuniary incentives and penalties for emissions reductions and increases, respectively, serve as an encouragement mechanism. Carbon cap-and-trade places a cap on carbon emissions, provides emitters an allowance of carbon, and establishes a market to trade carbon allowances. A carbon price traditionally imposes a fee on emitting one metric ton of carbon. At an institutional level, a smartly designed carbon-pricing scheme borrows from both methods. Maximilian Stiefel, UC Carbon Neutrality Fellow; PhD Candidate, Geography, UC Santa Barbara California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

41 Connecting Graduate Students to Sustainability The rationale and blueprint for the creation of an on-campus resource, the Sustainability Liaison, is depicted in this poster. Specifically tailored to graduate students, the Sustainability Liaison at UC Riverside exists to participate in the graduate student governing body, the Graduate Student Association, and to connect graduate students to the many resources provided by UC Riverside's Office of Sustainability. S. Drew Story, UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative Fellow; PhD Candidate, Chemical & Environmental Engineering, UC Riverside Year in Review: CNI at UCSC This poster will highlight an overview of the Carbon Neutrality Initiative accomplishments at the University of California, Santa Cruz from Included are achievements focusing on staff, student, and faculty engagement efforts, as well as data visualization of climate and energy data. It also highlights our research on best practices to support UC Santa Cruz s Long Range Development Plans while complying with Cap and Trade regulations by 2020 and achieving Carbon Neutrality by Jamison Czarnecki, UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative Fellow; Undergraduate Student, Environmental Studies, UC Santa Cruz Jordi Vasquez, UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative Fellow; Student, Earth and Planetary Sciences, UC Santa Cruz Achieving Carbon Neutrality at UC Los Angeles This study involves working with UC Los Angeles' Chief Sustainability Officer to develop carbon neutrality scenarios for the University to achieve the UC wide goal of campus carbon neutrality by We provide baseline energy use estimates for current and future projects and projected energy and cost savings. Analysis of alternative energy sources and technologies will include: solar, bio-gas, microgrid development, natural gas, cogeneration upgrades, and opportunities to integrate energy conservation methods. We will provide projections for carbon emissions under three scenarios: business-as-usual, moderate investments in cleaner technologies and infrastructure, and full carbon neutrality. Joanne Wong, UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative Fellow; Masters Candidate, Urban Planning, UC Los Angeles Ariana Vito, UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative Fellow; Masters Candidate, Urban Planning, UC Los Angeles Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 39

42 A Network That Loops Everyone in to Contribute This project aims to well-estimate and monitor greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and lay a solid foundation to the path of carbon neutrality. In this project, the goal is to develop a UC Riverside campus-based Carbon Footprint Tracking Network (CFTN) relevant to people s activities. Students, faculty, staff, and even visitors may anonymously share their locations, food consumption, and other carbon footprint related data via their smartphones. Such information will be transmitted to the server and be analyzed for better GHGs emission level estimation. Chao Wang, UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative Fellow; PhD Candidate, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC Riverside Thole-type Model of Clathrate Structures A Thole-type potential of methane hydrates, which will give researchers a cheap tool to safely study these interesting materials, will be presented. The potential will contain polarizability components and is able to accurately predict experimental properties of methane hydrates. Methane hydrates are part of a class of substances known as clathrates in which guest molecules are trapped in a lattice. These structures are seen as a form of alternative energy due to their ability to be ignited; however, methane, a potent greenhouse gas, will be released upon burning. This potential will hopefully help reduce accidental emissions due to experiments. Jiarong Zhou, UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative Fellow; Undergraduate Student, Nanoengineering, UC San Diego Spatially Heterogeneous Chlorine Incorporation in Organic-Inorganic Perovskite Solar Cells Spatial heterogeneities in the elemental makeup of thin film photovoltaic devices are pivotal in determining device efficiency. In this study, the presence of chlorine is positively identified in perovskite films synthesized with Cl-containing precursors and as an impurity in some films synthesized with Cl-free precursors, by means of non-destructive synchrotron-based nanoprobe X-ray fluorescence (Nano-XRF). Using Nano-XRF, we reveal the presence of chlorine in methylammonium lead iodide perovskite films down to the ppm detection limit, the manipulation of chlorine content by perovskite precursor chemistry, and its microscopic heterogeneity with better than 100 nm spatial resolution. Yanqi Luo, UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative Fellow; PhD Candidate, Nanoengineering, UC San Diego California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

43 Energy Management for Carbon Neutrality Operational building efficiency is a key component of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's efforts to meet the goal of complete carbon neutrality. By learning about the operation of Berkeley Lab buildings, and by then configuring buildings using gathered data, we can develop a standard operational process for identifying energy-saving opportunities. Estella Shi, UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative Fellow; Undergraduate Student, Mathematics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory UC Global Food Initiative Fellows Posters Feeding Student Families Feeds the World This project started with a simple goal in mind; to revive and re-energize the community-building and productive capacity of the UC Santa Barbara Family Housing Resident Food Garden. As the project has progressed, there have been essential network connections made that have added various levels of social, technical, and ecological complexity to the mix. Community gardens model an essential experiential paradigm that allows for healing, creativity, and the emergence of vast cultural potential. Jessica Alvarez, UC Global Food Initiative Fellow; Undergraduate, Environmental Studies; Anthropology, UC Santa Barbara From Global to Local: Creating Food Spaces At UC Merced As a Global Food Initiative Fellow, I wanted to understand the dynamics of the food map starting from the seed all the way to consumer consumption while utilizing my resources at the University of California, Merced. This knowledge would help in addressing the goal of the Global Food Initiative. My work, therefore, assessed each step of the commercial food business: growing, distribution and consumption. Isabella Beltran, UC Global Food Initiative Fellow; Undergraduate Student, Engineering, UC Merced Activating Student Voices Through Experiential Learning As an Experiential Learning Fellow at UC Berkeley, my work centered around promoting student representation and participation in campus and UC wide food and agriculture Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 41

44 programs. I assert that the inclusion of student voices in conferences, grant writing, and decision-making processes related to food and agriculture on each campus not only enriches these efforts by supporting open communication, community building, and programmatic longevity, but is also a valuable opportunity for direct student experiential learning itself. Nicole Wong, UC Global Food Initiative Fellow; Undergraduate Student, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley Fruit and Vegetable Intake Among College Students This project evaluated whether the receipt of food assistance information was associated with higher fruit and vegetable intake among students across the UC system, particularly regarding 1) how to apply for federal assistance; 2) the location of food pantries/ banks/free food; 3) how to cook simple, cheap, and healthy meals; and 4) who to talk to on campus about not having enough food. Erika Brown, UC Global Food Initiative Fellow; PhD Candidate, Public Health Epidemiology/Biostatistics, Agriculture and Natural Resources Division, UC Berkeley Understanding Food Insecurity Through Food Pantry Surveys Across the US, food insecurity is a pervasive issue, but Santa Cruz in particular faces significant hunger challenges because it is one of only three counties in California in which poverty has not declined in recent years. We conducted both surveys of local food pantry visitors as well as semi-structured interviews of food pantry coordinators to (1) understand the extent of and factors contributing to food insecurity for members of the University and (2) identify and compare the challenges of various demographic groups both within the UCSC community as well as in the larger Santa Cruz community. Hamutahl Cohen, UC Global Food Initiative Fellow; PhD Candidate, Environmental Studies, UC Santa Cruz Katherine Ennis, UC Global Food Initiative Fellow; PhD Candidate, Environmental Studies, UC Santa Cruz Webbing This project analyses a community-university partnership and networking effort focused on food waste reduction, recovery and community building. The research examines community-driven strategies for the creation of a community based food network as well as composting. The emphasis is on social innovation and building community connections California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

45 This research also explores and identifies factors that need to be taken into account when working with traditionally underserved and underrepresented communities. Finally, this project also touches base on obstacles that have surfaced through the length of this project. Gabriela Estrada, UC Global Food Initiative Fellow; Undergraduate Student, Sociology; Communication, UC San Diego Building Community through Food This poster will describe the work of a UC Global Food Initiative Fellow and a UC Los Angeles Center for Community Learning internship with Kindred Spirits Care Farm, a nonprofit helping John R. Wooden High School maintain a farm. Through both positions, the fellow has connected with many UC Los Angeles students, faculty, and groups whose work revolves around food. This poster will describe the many connections that the internship and the fellowship have initiated and how this diverse work around food has created a sense of community for food activists at UCLA and between UCLA and John R. Wooden High School. Jesse Flores, UC Global Food Initiative Fellow; Undergraduate Student, Geography, UC Los Angeles Students Feeding Students: A Food Recovery Model Every Sunday, UCLA students glean excess produce that would otherwise go to waste from local farmers markets in order to feed food-insecure Bruins. Swipe Out Hunger volunteers glean pounds of produce per week in partnership with a local nonprofit, of that approximately pounds are given to UCLA students. The produce is dropped off at three points: the campus food closet, a student food-hub at a local church, and an off-campus housing facility for graduate and post-doctoral families. From October 2015 to April 2016, food-insecure students have received over 3,500 pounds of fresh produce through this gleaning program. Savannah Gardner, UC Global Food Initiative Fellow; Undergraduate Student, Environmental Science; Political Science, UC Los Angeles Food and Literature Course Development for UCLA's Food Studies Minor This poster will detail the work that Cailey Hall has done with Professor Allison Carruth, whose research focuses on food cultures and environmental movements. Professor Carruth and Ms. Hall have worked on developing the syllabus for a food and Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 43

46 literature class she will be teaching for UCLA's Food Studies minor. The course will focus on four main units: 1) the recipe as form; 2) vegetarianism as a utopian eating scheme; 3) chocolate, sugar, and colonialism; and 4) the rise of the restaurant and food professionalization. Ms. Hall has produced annotated primary and secondary bibliographies for each unit and has built a digital repository of relevant images. Cailey Hall, UC Global Food Initiative Fellow; PhD Candidate, English Romanticism, UC Los Angeles Assessing Climate Models' Skill in Predicting Chill Hours for California This project investigates whether climate models with good skills in predicting global metrics (such as global average temperature) are also good predictors of specific metrics of local climate that are relevant to fruit and nut farmers in California. The research evaluates the skill of 30 global climate models in predicting the metric of chill hours in California. The project also analyzes whether discarding models with low skill, leads to significant changes in the projections of future climate. These results would be a step forward in efforts to provide farmers with the best available climate information for their specific local needs. Kripa Jagannathan, UC Global Food Initiative Fellow; PhD Candidate, Energy and Resources Group, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Food Insecurity May Predict Mortality for People Infected with Ebola Virus Disease Future Ebola outbreak containment strategies will benefit from inclusion of asymptomatic infection in Ebola-related studies. A serosurvey (a screening test of the blood serum of persons at risk to determine susceptibility to a particular disease) in Kono District, Sierra Leone, of 223 exposed persons demonstrated 14 unreported Ebola infections which meant there were 48 Ebola infections (36 symptomatic and 12 asymptomatic; 20 alive and 28 dead). Food insecurity was reported by a group of people who shared meals. A cluster-adjusted analysis was performed on the food insecurity. People with moderate or severe food insecurity were not at risk of infection but were at risk of mortality (p=0.10). Larger studies should examine the risk of food insecurity on Ebola-related mortality. J. Daniel Kelly, UC Global Food Initiative Fellow; Graduate Student, Medicine, UC San Francisco California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

47 Healthy Living Resource Guide This poster entails the specifications of the project that Dhruti Khetani has been working on for the past year. Cultivating sustainable habits among students is essential at a very earlier stage. Keeping this in mind, Ms. Khetani, along with two other interns--stephanie and Vanida, have created a resource guide which includes information about fair trade, no-gmo products, basic food hacks, and ways to shop effectively all followed by sustainable recipes. Dhruti Khetani, UC Global Food Initiative Fellow; Undergraduate Student, Business Information Management, UC Irvine You Live & You Learn: Food Literacy at UC Los Angeles This poster will highlight the results from eleven focus groups (small group discussions) with students at UC Los Angeles. There were four objectives (1): Learn about students habits, priorities, and decision making processes with respect to food choices; (2): Learn how students define good food, and understand perceived barriers to making good food choices; (3): Understand the existing barriers to and promoters of food literacy among students; and (4): Learn about students interest in food literacy education and resources. Hannah Malan, UC Global Food Initiative Fellow; Masters Candidate, Community Health Sciences, UC Los Angeles Connecting Campus and Community Food Resources at UC Riverside The burgeoning food system at UC Riverside has led to the formation of many student, faculty, staff, and community groups with specific expertise and resources. Through small projects led by the UC Global Food Initiative and others, these groups have come to formally collaborate and accomplish great things over the past year. As a result, the Student Food Coalition was formed to create a resilient network of student leaders from the R Garden, R Pantry, Sustainability, Public Policy, and more. The Coalition aims to unite these causes under a common thread of supporting food justice, access, quality, literacy, and engagement at UC Riverside. Holly Mayton, UC Global Food Initiative Ambassador; PhD Candidate, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, UC Riverside Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 45

48 The UC Irvine Garden Project One of the goals of this project is to work with sustainability faculty, staff, and fellow students to develop and carry out the UC Irvine Garden Project. This is a hands-on, experiential learning internship engaging the range of skills essential to urban agriculture, both inside the garden and as a community organizer. Emanuel Preciado, UC Global Food Initiative Fellow; Masters Candidate, Urban Planning, UC Irvine Association of Markers of Gut Microbial Translocation and Inflammation with Insulin Resistance in HIV-infected Persons Despite the success of HIV treatment, many individuals living with HIV develop metabolic complications, such as diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease. The role of diet, perturbations in gut microbiome and gut microbial translocation in the pathogenesis of diabetes mellitus in HIV-infected adults is unclear. This was a cross sectional analysis of HIV-infected adults. We sought to determine if gut microbial translocation and intestinal epithelial damage were associated with insulin resistance in a population. Mike Reid, UC Global Food Initiative Clinical Fellow; Public Health/Infectious Diseases, UC San Francisco Building Bridges and Mobilizing Students: Can U C? In an effort to engage students, generate awareness, and mobilize student-led organizations and movements, this project focuses on using the power of music and food to unite people from various backgrounds. "Can U C" is the title of a Hip Hop music video filmed in collaboration with dozens of UC Santa Cruz organizations as well as members of the community in order to illustrate the power of collaboration in creating an environmentallyconscious society. David Robles, UC Global Food Initiative Fellow; Undergraduate Student, Humanities; History, UC Santa Cruz Stable Isotope Analysis of Wheat Irrigated with Hydraulic Fracturing Constituents In an effort to gain insight into the safety of hydraulic fracturing wastewater reuse for crop irrigation and the fate of associated chemicals in receiving plants, a greenhouse experiment was performed. Several toxic hydraulic fracturing chemicals were selected and applied to wheat plants in irrigation water. Nitrogen stable isotope measurements California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

49 collected from the grain, stems, fertilizer, and applied chemicals are reported to elucidate the source of the nitrogen in the mature wheat plants. Results indicate significant differences in nitrogen sources between the controls and treated plants. Linsey Shariq, UC Global Food Initiative Fellow; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; PhD Candidate, Environmental Engineering, UC Davis Food Insecurity Associated with Increased HIV Viral Load in US Women Food insecurity is common in people living with HIV and is associated with poor health outcomes. Women with HIV may be particularly susceptible to food insecurity. We used Tobit regression models to examine the association between food insecurity and HIV-1 viral load, adjusting for demographic and clinical variables in a cross-sectional study of 1,251 US women living with HIV. Almost half (42%) of participants reported food insecurity. Food insecurity was associated with a doubling of HIV-1 viral load, a marker of poor clinical and population outcomes, in a multi-site study of women with HIV in the US. Future research is needed to study the impact of food-insecurity interventions on health outcomes of women with HIV. Matthew Spinelli, UC Global Food Initiative Fellow; Resident, Internal Medicine, UC San Francisco Seeds and Trees Seeds and Trees offers workshops in Spanish and English to educate students, parents, and their children in low-income communities on healthy eating habits and sustainability practices. Seeds and Trees also educates college students through the use of organizations like sororities, fraternities, and clubs about the fact that Riverside is a Food Desert. Students are then encouraged to develop healthy educational activities to share with the community. Seeds and Trees also partners with the Master Gardeners Program. Claudia Villegas, UC Global Food Initiative Fellow; Undergraduate Student, Psychology, UC Riverside Food Recovery and Beyond: Collaborations for a Food Secure UCLA This project focused on food recovery with the goal of reducing food waste and improving food security at UC Los Angeles. First, a farmers market gleaning project was implemented to delivery fresh, free produce to UC Los Angeles students. Second, planning for a food recovery notification system was initiated to identify and recover excess food. Collaborations with campus and community partners have been essential to the progress Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 47

50 and success of these projects and have led to new directions for food recovery and food security. This poster will overview project results and describe how key collaborations have informed, supported, and expanded these projects at UCLA. Tyler D. Watson, MPH, PhD Candidate, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health Implementing 'Swipes for Slugs' to Aid in UC Santa Cruz Food Security Efforts Food insecurity continues to be a prevalent issue within our society. As many of the Global Food Initiative projects are working towards the goal of relieving world hunger by 2025, Swipes for Slugs is a program dedicated in addressing student food insecurity and access within the institutional level at UCSC. The goals of implementing this program are to bring awareness of what food insecurity is and to find ways to move away from the stigma of asking for help around this issue. Students will be able to donate their meal swipes towards a fellow student facing food insecurity. Judy Xie, UC Global Food Initiative Fellow; Undergraduate Student, Environmental Studies; Biology, UC Santa Cruz Designing an Urban Scale Student Farm to Address Food Insecurity The UC Santa Barbara Edible Campus Program is designing a farm from the ground up to distribute food to the campus food pantry (Associated Students Food Bank). This project was done in close collaboration with campus Environmental Health and Safety staff to ensure that food grown could be broadly distributed to students in need. The farm design also uses innovative strategies to integrate educational areas into the farm without significantly reducing production capacity. For example, a shade structure covered in edible plants, will produce 3,000 pounds of produce in a year and seat a group of 20 students underneath. The farm aims to engage students as leaders of their local food system and address food insecurity. Nancy Yang, UC Global Food Initiative Fellow; Student Coordinator, Edible Campus Program; Undergraduate Student, Global Studies, UC Santa Barbara Reimagining Underutilized Spaces on Campus; From Vertical Gardens to an Urban Orchard The UC Santa Barbara Edible Campus Program seeks to reimagine underutilized spaces on campus as areas of food production for the Associated Students Food Bank. The Urban Orchard and Vertical Garden are two unique projects that allow us to take advantage of what little space we have at UC Santa Barbara to grow food, from a tucked California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

51 away corner on a balcony to a square of unused cement. It is our hope that students and passersby will be inspired by these non-traditional avenues of growing food, and, in turn, spark a campus wide sense of stewardship over where our food comes from. Maile Hartsook, UC Global Food Initiative Fellow; Student Coordinator, Edible Campus Program; Undergraduate Student, Political Science, UC Santa Barbara The Potential for Local Food Systems in the US Local food systems may facilitate agroecological practices that conserve nutrient, energy, and water resources. Here I estimate the upper potential for all existing US croplands to meet total US food demand through local food networks. My spatially explicit approach simulates the years 1850 through 2000 and accounts for a wide range of diets, food waste, population distributions, cropland areas, and crop yields. I find large current potential for meeting as much as 90% of the national food demand. Additionally, I explore possible farm-community relationships for recycling urban waste and wastewater for fertilizer and irrigation in California. Andrew Zumkehr, UC Global Food Initiative Fellow; PhD Candidate, Environmental Systems, UC Merced Campus Food Policy How do those in charge of food landscape understand the relationship between economic, social and environmental factors within the campus food system? This research explores the role of campus policy in achieving the economic, human, and environmental health goals of the UC campuses. It aims to encourage discussion of the tradeoffs that every food system has to make. Different goals access, affordability, cultural value, profitability, environmental sustainability, food justice and nutrition can conflict as well complement each other. To understand variables influencing the food system Dr. David A. Cleveland and RA Genesis Gilroy delve into exploratory research of knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding campus food goals, landscapes and policies as well as assumptions and values foundational to those goals. Genesis Gilroy, UC Global Food Initiative Fellow; Undergraduate Student, Communication, UC Santa Barbara Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 49

52 UCLA Food Studies Minor The poster will introduce the Food Studies Minor and its aims. I will describe the work of my fellowship, which included contacting different professors to gauge their interest in listing their class under the food studies minor. Also included will be a chart of current course offerings. Lastly, will be goals for the Food Studies Minor in the future. Margaret LaGaly, UC Global Food Initiative Fellow; Undergraduate Student, English, UC Los Angeles The State of Farm to School in Orange County As part of a Partnerships for Improving Community Health (PICH) grant from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Orange County Food Access Coalition (OCFAC) and UC Irvine are collaborating on several efforts to increase access to nutritious and affordable foods in the underserved communities of Orange County. This poster examines the current state of the Farm to School program, and examines the next steps to increase the awareness and participation in the program over the next three years. Laura Rood, UC Global Food Initiative Fellow; Undergraduate Student, Chemical Engineering, UC Irvine California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

53 Conference Program Sunday, June 26th, 2016: Pre-Conference Workshops The CSU Sustainability Minor Meeting (Invitation-only) Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion C 1:00pm - 5:00pm Free to invited attendees This workshop is by invitation-only and is open to California community college and CSU faculty representatives. The goal of the workshop is to consider the curriculum and oversight structures for a potential minor in sustainability. This minor in sustainability is to be offered utilizing expertise and curriculum from multiple campuses throughout the state. It is envisioned that community college campuses will also be involved, so a sampling of community college faculty will also participate. Sunday, June 26th - Thursday, June 30th, 2016: Art Show Crossing the Silos of Art & Sustainability During Hours When the Exhibit Hall is Open This year, CHESC will feature its first art exhibit a showcase of various creative art pieces that encompass the vast realm of sustainable topics and issues. In the spirit of collaboration and the interdisciplinary nature of the field of sustainability, this art exhibit bridges the fields of creativity and sustainability. The artists who have contributed to this show come from various backgrounds and experiences and will display creative pieces in vastly unique forms, subject matters, and mediums. Please join us in the Exhibit Hall to engage in this exciting art exhibit. Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 51

54 Monday, June 27th, 2016: Pre-Conference Workshops and Tours Sustainability Officers Workshop (Invitation-only) Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion A 8:30am - 12:30pm $58 Registration Fee In this highly interactive workshop, sustainability officers will have the opportunity to connect with their colleagues across the state. Through several different activities, participants will be exposed to the breadth of knowledge and experience collectively housed in the room, dive deep into specific topics of interest, have the opportunity to give and receive advice, and brainstorm strategic solutions to institutional barriers. Participants vote on topics of interest ahead of time. Sustainable Transportation and Water Management in Orange County Bike Tour Meet at Parking Lot E, CSU Fullerton 9:00am - 4:00pm $99 Registration Fee (Lunch and Bike Rental Included) Cyclists are invited to tour the Orange County Water District (OCWD) and then hit the Santa Ana River Trail down to Newport Beach (a 7.5 mile ride). OCWD is committed to proactive public outreach and education. Educating the public about advanced wastewater purification is important to garnering support for future Groundwater Replenishment System (GWRS) projects that are being planned around the world. A box lunch will be served. Bike and helmet rental is included in the cost of the tour. University of California Global Food/Carbon Neutrality Initiatives Fellows Symposium (Invitation-only) Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion C 10:30am - 5:30pm Free to Invited Attendees The Symposium will convene undergraduate and graduate Fellows of two major Presidential initiatives at the University of California where student engagement is key California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

55 The UC Global Food Initiative addresses the critical issue of how to sustainably and nutritiously feed a world population expected to reach eight billion by 2025, with 44 Fellows engaged in projects such as urban agriculture, sustainable campus landscapes, and biological pest control. The UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative is responding to the growing environmental crisis by committing to the goal of emitting net zero greenhouse gases by 2025, with 39 Fellows engaged in projects that include research aimed at scientific advances, policy analysis, and communications. Energy Resource Center (ERC) Guided Tour Meet at Parking Lot E, CSU Fullerton 12:00pm - 4:00pm $39 Registration Fee Get a first-hand, close-up look at a leading example of green building design and operation. This 44,000 square foot conference, office and pilot-test center has received national recognition as being among the finest examples of renewable building design, construction and operation. The center has also begun urban gardening, showing how fruits and herbs can be grown in the middle of a commercial parking lot outside of your conventional gardening space. The edible garden is focused around resource conservation, which will benefit public health, through soil and water testing, and the environment. Gas Company specialist will lead adults on a 1-hour free guided tour of the firm s unique Energy Resource Center (ERC) in Downey. Upper Newport Bay Kayak Tour Meet at Parking Lot E, CSU Fullerton 1:00pm - 5:00pm $58 Registration Fee (Includes Kayak Rental) One of the best ways to appreciate Upper Newport Bay is to get out on the water, experience the tranquility, see pelicans, terns, and egrets flying by you, and, if your eyes are quick, catch a glimpse of mullet jumping out of the water. Our trained Naturalists have been conducting water tours here at the Back Bay for twenty years. They begin with a quick lesson on how to paddle and then lead the participants into the Ecological Reserve. They make several stops where they discuss various aspects of the ecology and wildlife of the Bay. In summer the open-water skimmers and terns that come here to nest predominate. Be prepared to get wet from your knees down as you push the kay- Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 53

56 aks off from the shore typical wear includes sandals or old shoes that can be thrown in the wash after and shorts or athletic pants. Weather can be different on the water so wearing layers is recommended. Sunglasses, sunscreen, and a hat are good idea for all seasons and binoculars if you have them. Feel free to bring a water bottle for the trip to stay hydrated. Striving for Zero Waste at Colleges and Universities Facilities Management, T-2000, FM-A 120 1:00pm - 5:00pm $40 Registration Fee Organized jointly by the California Collegiate Recycling Council (CCRC) and the Zero Waste College and University Technical Committee (ZWCUTC) of the US Zero Waste Business Council, this workshop will showcase Zero Waste practices from different entities and provide an opportunity for interaction among individuals with different backgrounds, knowledge, and experience in practices and topics relating to Zero Waste. Come join us to hear presentations given by individuals who are highly involved in waste reduction and Zero Waste. Finding Synergy: Connecting the Work of Diversity & Sustainability Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion A 1:00pm - 5:00pm $55 Registration Fee University Diversity Offices and Sustainability Offices both hold imperative roles for building campus community and supporting student success. While the roles of these offices may be considered separate, identifying and addressing their interconnections is crucial to educate the campus about the link between diversity and equity with environmental systems. How can Diversity Offices and Sustainability Offices collaborate to provide mutual support? Join this workshop to build an understanding of the synergies between these two important issues, how people holding diversity or sustainability positions can work together, and leave with practical tools to make connections and build common language. This session is focused on campus Diversity Officers and Sustainability Officers, but is open to all. A survey and readings will be sent out to participants prior to the workshop California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

57 Monday, June 27th, 2016: Opening Night VIP Reception Brought to You be SunPower (Invitation-only) Golleher Alumni house 4:00pm - 6:00pm The goal of this event is to celebrate the best practice award winners and create a space for our most esteemed guests to network. The invitation list includes the executive leadership of the campuses in attendance, representatives of our highest level sponsors, steering committee members, and of course the best practice award winners. Opening Reception Brought to You by Office Depot/OfficeMax. Titan Exercise Sports Field 5:00pm - 8:00pm Please join us for a celebration of the fifteenth annual conference. Hors d oeuvres will be served as registrants see sustainable demonstrations, view posters created by students and campus stakeholders, and meet business leaders who are providing products and services which can help our campuses become more sustainable. During the opening reception, poster presenters will also be standing by their posters to answer questions and engage with conference attendees. We are especially excited to welcome UC President Napolitano s UC Global Food Initiative and UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative Fellows, who will be presenting on the work of their fellowships. Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 55

58 Tuesday, June 27th, 2016 Opening Keynote: A. G. Kawamura Clayes Performing Arts Center (CPAC), Meng Hall 8:00am - 9:30am During the opening, attendees will be welcomed to the conference by several local leaders. Following these remarks, we will hear from our keynote speaker, A.G. Kawamura. A.G. Kawamura is a third-generation fruit and vegetable grower and shipper from Orange County. He is the former Secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture ( ). He is co-chair of Solutions From the Land, a nonprofit organization that collaborates with farmers, ranchers, foresters and stakeholders to implement climate smart land management practices and strategies. He currently serves on several boards and committees including: The Ag Advisory Committee for the AGree Initiative; the Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources (BANR), a policy arm of the National Academy of Sciences Natural Resource Council; Ag Advisory Committee for the Chicago Council on Global Affairs; American Farmland Trust; The 25x 25 Alliance, a national alliance of renewable energy stakeholders; External Advisory Board for the Agricultural Sustainability Institute (ASI) at UC Davis. He is a former chair and current board member of Western Growers Association. As a progressive urban farmer, AG has a lifetime of experience working within the shrinking rural and urban boundaries of Southern California. Through his company, Orange County Produce, LLC, he is engaged in building an exciting, interactive 21st century 100 acre urban agricultural showcase at the Orange County Great Park in Irvine, CA California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

59 Welcoming Remarks: Danny C. Kim, Vice President, Administration and Finance, CSU Fullerton Danny C. Kim, Vice President for Administration and Finance and Chief Financial Officer, joined California State University, Fullerton in January 2014 after spending 23 years in the University of California system. He previously held the position of associate vice chancellor for student affairs at the University of California, Riverside. Prior to student affairs, he served in the Office of Academic Planning and Budget at UCR and at UCLA. Before entering the field of higher education administration, Mr. Kim taught high school math in the Los Angeles Unified School District and at a community college in Los Angeles. Mr. Kim holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics/systems science from the University of California, Los Angeles and an MBA from the University of California, Irvine. John Bock, PhD, Director, Center for Sustainability; Professor, Anthropology, CSU Fullerton John Bock is a professor of anthropology at CSU Fullerton, and from was coordinator of the Environmental Studies graduate program and is the founding director of CSU Fullerton s Center for Sustainability. Bock is also the faculty liaison for CSU Fullerton s Sustainability Pathway within the general education program, which provides students with a unified sustainability-focused theme in meeting their general education requirements. Each year the Center works with student groups to organize events on campus and in the community, including an Earth Week celebration spread over several days. Under a CSU system-wide grant, Bock has developed a new course, Environmental Studies/Chemistry 492, Sustainability Project where students from five colleges work in teams with community partners on sustainability-focused projects. Bock has a long history of working in the area of ecology and health, and is co-pi on an NSF Coupled/Natural Human Systems program grant focused on climate change, water quality, and disease in northern Botswana. Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 57

60 Morning Networking Break Titan Exercise Sports Field 9:30am - 10:15am We welcome attendees to join us for coffee and tea after the keynote in our exhibit show. The CHESC Exhibit Show is an essential component of the conference where attendees can learn about the newest technologies and solutions for campus sustainability. You can also use this space to meet up with other attendees and exchange ideas. We encourage you to keep an eye out for our innovative booths. This is a category of booth where the booth attendants will include at least one person from the research and development team of their company and be presenting technologies brand new to the market or about to hit the market. Innovative booths include: FarmLogix, Flow Control Industries, Inc., Hydro-Convergent Technologies, Inc., MI Technologies, Inc., and Sloan Valve Company. Several booths will also highlight interactive activities such as coffee tastings, interactive software and product demonstrations, and test drives for vehicles. The following companies will have interactive booths: Applied Power Technologies, Inc., CleanRiver Recycling Solutions, Gaia Development, Green Commuter, Java City/ ecogrounds Coffee, Lucid, MaxR, Office Max/Office Depot, Saris Cycling Group, Shaw Industries Group, Southern California Gas, and Zipcar. This is also an excellent opportunity to visit the Titan Bookstore booth to browse the books written by CSU Fullerton faculty and/or other CHESC speakers California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

61 Sessions A: Panel Sessions TUESDAY, Sessions JUNE 28th, A: 2016 Panel Sessions 10:15am - 11:30am Martin Howell, CEM, LEED TM AP, Associate Energy, Arup Michael Strong, Vice President, Administrative Services, Crafton Hills College Leaders in and Tools for Exceptional New Construction Projects Ruby Gerontology Center, Room 13 Green Building New Construction & Renovations; and Energy Ripening Efforts Interdisciplinary Talk Best Practice Winner, CSU East Bay will speak on their New Construction project, a Core Learning Space. The project set forth pursuing LEED TM v2009 GOLD Certification and will be achieving this by excelling beyond common practice. San Bernardino Community College District will describe a budgeting tool for the construction of new building projects as well as a planning cost tool for ongoing operation and maintenance costs. Best Practice Winner, UC Berkeley will present on the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation which is a collaborative, project-based, educational space devoted to introducing sustainable design innovation at the center of engineering education and university life. Moderator: Patti Mitchell, AIA, LEED TM AP, Associate Director, West Zone, Capital Programs, UC San Francisco Speakers: Loralyn Perry, Energy & Utility Manager, Facilities, CSU East Bay Scott Shackleton, Assistant Dean, Capital Projects & Facilities, College of Engineering, Dean s Office, UC Berkeley University of California Climate Champions Present! Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion A Climate Action Ripening Efforts General Audience In May 2015, UC President Janet Napolitano announced the UC Faculty Climate Action Champion Program. Each UC campus selected one of its faculty members to work with students on projects aimed at building community engagement and awareness about climate change. The program is designed to help meet and focus students interest in climate-action education, and to inspire other faculty members to help the university s goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2025 through engaged research and education. Come hear UC Climate Champions discuss their individual projects and goals for this ambitious effort, linked to Napolitano's commitment to make UC carbon neutral by Speaker/Moderator: Ronnie D. Lipschutz, PhD, Professor & Chair of Politics; Provost of College 8, UC Santa Cruz Speakers: Robert Pomeroy, PhD, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UC San Diego Sessions A: Panel Sessions Tues 10:15am - 11:30am Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 59

62 Sessions A: Panel Sessions Tues 10:15am - 11:30am Arianne Teherani, PhD, Professor, Medicine, UC San Diego Sue Carter, PhD, Professor, Department of Physics, UC Santa Cruz Steven Allison, Associate Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Earth System Science, UC Irvine Planning Sustainability Across Campus and Community Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion C Institutionalizing Sustainability Ripening Efforts Interdisciplinary Talk Incorporating sustainability data into plans of action, CSU Northridge will present a talk on the Campus-Community Climate Leadership Task Force that discusses the methods for addressing climate action goals on campus and identifying opportunity for collaborative action with the local community. CSU Chico will present on the campus collaboration with Lucid on campus living lab programs and procedure for improving real campus sustainability information, and for integrating that information into material for academic discussion. Moderator: Holli Fajack, Sustainability Coordinator, CSU Long Beach Speakers: Fletcher Alexander, Sustainability Programs Manager, Institute for Sustainable Development, CSU Chico Rachel Skifton, Senior Customer Success Manager, Lucid Mechelle Best, PhD, Interim Department Chair, Recreation and Tourism Management, CSU Northridge Helen Cox, PhD, Director, Institute for Sustainability, CSU Northridge Integrating Campus Distributed Energy Resources: Renewables, Storage, and Microgrids Kinesiology and Health Sciences, Room 199 Energy Ripening Efforts Interdisciplinary Talk Integrating Distributed Energy Resources like energy storage and renewable generation with a campus microgrid is complex, but can offer operational flexibility to reduce both utility costs and greenhouse gas emissions. In this panel session, UC San Diego and Las Positas College will highlight their evaluation and implementation of advanced energy storage as part of their campus microgrids. In addition, UC Santa Barbara will present on a 5.3 megawatt solar photovoltaic power purchase agreement (PPA) with installations in six locations. Moderator: Eric Eberhardt, Associate Director, Energy Services, Energy & Sustainability, UC Office of the President Speakers: John Dilliott, PE, Associate Director of Energy & Utilities, Facilities Management, UC San Diego Jordan Sager, Program Manager, Utility and Energy Services, UC Santa Barbara Doug Horner, AIA, Director of Facilities and Bond Construction, Chabot-Las Positas Community College District California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

63 Bruce Rich, PE, LEED TM AP, CCM, Area Manager Construction Services, Parsons Brinckerhoff From Landscape to Labs; Large Scale Water Efficiency Projects with Immediate Results Systemic Approaches to Substantially Increase Local Food Purchasing Titan Student Union, Ontiveros Procurement & Business Services; and Food Systems Deep Green General Audience All dining services have to purchase food. How can we make sure this food is sustainable? This session will introduce innovative practices in local food sourcing. UC Berkeley will speak about their efforts to serve "extreme local" dining meals, raising student awareness of individual food choices in relation to broader food systems. They will expand on how this program s success has led to the creation of an on-campus cafe with an almost entirely local-sourced menu. UC Santa Barbara will then share their work in developing a best practice manual for local food sourcing, making it easier to translate these practices to other campuses. Moderator: Matthew Burke, CPSM, Procurement Analyst IV, Procurement Services, UC Riverside Speakers: Samantha Lubow, Environmental Initiatives Coordinator, Cal Dining, UC Berkeley Danielle Kemp, RD, Dietitian, Residential Dining Services, UC Santa Barbara Titan Student Union, Alvarado Water & Landscape Deep Green Interdisciplinary Talk CSU Fullerton eliminated over eleven acres of turf, integrating native and adaptive vegetation as replacements, achieving an over 28% water reduction (approx. 40,000,000 gallons) in one year. UC Riverside scrutinized the operation of autoclave sterilizers on their campus, examining energy and water consumption and usage patterns, identifying alternative products, and trialed a more efficient model. UCSB will report on their work to eliminate single-pass cooling in benchtop laboratory condensers, obtaining funding, engaging researchers, and eliminating faucet-to-sewer cooling from more than 55 laboratories, with more to come. Moderator: Willem van der Pol, Interim Associate Vice President Facilities Management, CSU Fullerton Speakers: Delphine Faugeroux, MS, LEED TM GA, Green Lab Coordinator, Office of Sustainability, UC Riverside Amorette Getty, PhD, LabRATS Co-Director, Sustainability, UC Santa Barbara Kyle Mann, MCM, Energy Efficiency Program Manager, Facilities Management, CSU Fullerton Sessions A: Panel Sessions Tues 10:15am - 11:30am Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 61

64 Sessions A: Panel Sessions Tues 10:15am - 11:30am Teaching Sustainable Transportation through Campus and Community Partnerships CSU Fullerton Student Housing, Pine 111 Transportation and Curriculum Deep Green General Audience This session will highlight curriculum-based research, projects, and case studies focusing on issues of sustainable travel and transportation. CSU Los Angeles will present on their student and faculty involvement in a national hybrid vehicle design competition. CSU Monterey Bay will speak about how they have successfully incorporated elements of addressing community issues in transportation and infrastructure into a pilot course. Lastly, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo will present on collaborative campus-community partnerships and student-led efforts in alternative transportation programs. Moderator: Nurit Katz, Chief Sustainability Officer, Executive Officer, Facilities Management, UC Los Angeles Speakers: David Blekhman, PhD, Professor, Technology, CSU Los Angeles Daniel M. Fernandez, PhD, Professor, Division of Science and Environmental Policy, CSU Monterey Bay William Riggs, PhD, AICP, LEED TM AP, Professor, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Incorporating Sustainability into Campus Culture CSU Fullerton Student Housing, Pine 140 Student Affairs & Auxiliaries Low Hanging Fruit General Audience Portraying a focus on incorporating sustainability into campus culture, Best Practice Winners from UC Riverside will address the position of a sustainability liaison to breach the gap between the campus Office of Sustainability and the Graduate Student Association. Best Practice Winners from CSU Northridge will present on the implementation of the Sustainable Office Program that works across the campus with individual departments to improve the sustainability of practices and procedures. UC Irvine will present on the cultivation of behavior change through student housing to build a sustainability discussion among professional staff and an overall culture of sustainability on campus. Moderator: Ian McKeown, Campus Sustainability Officer, Facilities Management, Loyola Marymount University Speakers: S. Drew Story, UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative Fellow; PhD Candidate, Chemical & Environmental Engineering, UC Riverside Holly Mayton, UC Global Food Initiative Ambassador; PhD Candidate, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, UC Riverside California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

65 Carlos Chavez-Iglesias, Student Lead, Sustainable Office Program; Undergraduate Student, Business, CSU Northridge Sanda Delgado, Assessor, Sustainable Office Program; Undergraduate Student, Biochemistry, CSU Northridge Rachel Harvey, PhD, Sustainability Program Manager, Student Housing, UC Irvine CSU Fullerton Sustainable Waste Tour Meet at Titan Exercise Sports Field by the Entrance of the Exhibit Hall California State University has a policy goal of 80% diversion from landfill by Take a tour through CSU Fullerton s campus and observe various strategies and initiatives they have started in order to achieve this goal. CSU Fullerton sustainable waste management program is relatively new, but ramping up quickly. Prior to 2014, CSU Fullerton had a single-stream waste system that used a dirty" MRF (Materials Reclamation Facility.) Come learn how CSU Fullerton has adopted and implemented recycling, source-separation, and waste reduction programs campus-wide. See how we have used sensors to optimize service levels. Observe key collection points, onsite mulching and windrow composting, and waste compactors. Learn about our future strategies, challenges, and best practices to achieve this aggressive California waste diversion legislation. Tour Guides: Kevin Mattson, Sustainable Waste Management Specialist, Facilities Operation, CSU Fullerton Dan Miranda Jr., Logistical Waste Management Coordinator, Facilities Operation, CSU Fullerton Sessions A: Panel Sessions Tues 10:15am - 11:30am Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 63

66 Sessions B: Stand-alone Presentations Tues 11:45am - 12:15pm Sessions B: Stand-alone Presentations TUESDAY, JUNE 28th, :45am - 12:15pm The Closed Loop: Sacramento State Food Waste Diversion and Green Transportation Titan Student Union, Ontiveros Waste Reduction & Recycling; and Transportation Deep Green Interdisciplinary Talk In order to decrease Sacramento State s dependence on fossil fuels and simultaneously decrease the amount of landfill matter, multiple agencies throughout the campus came together to create an umbrella solution. The campus "closed the loop" by upcycling the food waste stream into an efficient, clean-burning green fuel to power its bus line. As a result, this comprehensive program yielded several major benefits, including the creation of a greener, viable fuel for the transit of the university s 51,000+ riders. Speakers: Joey Martinez, Recycling & Sustainability Coordinator, Sustainability, Sacramento State University Tony Lucas, MA Ed, Senior Director, University Transportation and Parking Services, Sacramento State University Demand is Driving Growth in US Forestlands CSU Fullerton Student Housing, Pine 140 Procurement & Business Services Ripening Fruit General Audience This presentation addresses key misconceptions around the growth of US Forestland, Responsible Forestry and the history of our use of forestland since the 1700s. While people should recycle and not waste paper, they should understand that using wood fiber helps create a marketplace for small family landowners to focus on growing forestland. The demand for wood drives landowners to convert crops like cotton and tobacco back to forestland, bringing millions of acres of more carbon-storing and oxygen-creating trees. This educational message is important because of misconceptions around the use of wood-based fiber. Speakers: Lesley Clark, Commodity Manager, Procurement Services, Professional Services/IT COE, UC Office of the President Kathryn Fernholz, Executive Director, Dovetail Partners How to Evaluate Food Security in a Statewide University System Kinesiology & Health Sciences, Room 199 Food Systems and Social Equity Deep Green General Audience The prevalence of food insecurity is estimated to be high among university students. The purpose of this presentation is to define food insecurity and how to assess food insecurity among college California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

67 students. In addition, the challenges and lessons learned in implementing a system-wide assessment of food insecurity among university students will be shared. Assessing food insecurity on college campuses is warranted and essential to informing potential policy and program strategies that can be instituted to ensure food security among all students. Speakers: Suzanna M. Martinez, MS, PhD, Assistant Researcher, Nutrition Policy Institute, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of California Green Fund Campaigns: Starting or Renewing Your Sustainability Grant Fund Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion C Institutionalizing Sustainability Deep Green Interdisciplinary Talk UC Davis and UC Berkeley will share their experience on their most recent green fund campaigns. UC Davis will discuss their success on the development, creation, and passing of a $3 fee for The Green Initiative Fund (TGIF), as well as lessons learned from their campaign. After nine years of running a successful green fund program, UC Berkeley will present on their campaign to renew the pre-existing TGIF. Specific topics include: assessing the need for green funds; how to start or renew a green fund on a large campus; how to gather support and resources for campaigning; pros and cons associated with starting from scratch vs. renewing. Speakers: Brian Gialketsis, Program Associate, Student Affairs, The Green Initiative Fund, UC Berkeley Shaina K Forsman, Waste Reduction Coordinator, Dining Services, UC Davis Green Experiment: Planting the Seed of Sustainability through Cultural Change CSU Fullerton Student Housing, Pine 111 Curriculum Low Hanging Fruit General Audience More often than not, the implementation of new cultural values can provide the societal motivation and political will to enable systemic transformations needed for transition to sustainability. At Cerritos College, a support base for institutionalizing a culture of sustainability is still greatly lacking. The purpose of the Green Experiment is to gain insight on student perspectives regarding cultural change. What are they willing to initiate? These individual choices shape our campuses, communities, and world. The Green Experiment asks students to consider their own impact and engage in habits that may be the very seed of cultural change and sustainability. Speakers: Aline Gregorio, Assistant Professor, Geography, Cerritos College Campus-scale Water Stewardship: What Higher Education Can Learn from Airports Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion A Sessions B: Stand-alone Presentations Tues 11:45am - 12:15pm Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 65

68 Sessions B: Stand-alone Presentations Tues 11:45am - 12:15pm Water & Landscape Deep Green General Audience Airports have much in common with universities -- their built environment and human systems, long planning horizons, and commitment to the vitality of their surrounding communities. Learn how campuses could apply the San Diego International Airport's approach to addressing the interconnected challenges of water supply, quality, and flooding through a whole-systems approach. The Airport has seen significant results, with green infrastructure incorporated into the capital budget over the next 20 years and sizable savings from water reuse and stormwater compliance. Speakers: Ben Chandler, Senior Sustainability & Lean Consultant, Haley & Aldrich, Inc. Paul Manasjan, MS, Director, Environmental Affairs, San Diego County Regional Airport Authority Lunch Brought to You by Green Charge Networks TUESDAY, JUNE 28th, :15pm - 1:30pm Titan Exercise Sports Field Please join us for lunch at the CHESC Exhibit Show. This year we are trying out something new by asking attendees to consider choosing the vegetarian option for today s lunch. 13% of our attendees are normally vegetarian or vegan and an additional 68% have volunteered to choose vegetarian for this meal. Thank you to everyone who volunteered to participate! The CHESC team also worked closely with OC Catering to integrate sustainability into every meal at the conference. Here are a few highlights of the many ways OC Catering is helping us achieve our sustainability goals: 50% of produce served at this year s event is locally grown (within 250 miles); 20% of all food and beverages are USDA Certified Organic. All coffee, tea, and sugar is Fair Trade certified. Meats served at California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

69 the event are certified with the Global Animal Partnership at steps 3, 4, or 5. All eggs and chicken are free-range. Agave syrup is available at all coffee service as a sugar option for vegans. You will also notice condiments in bulk containers. Lastly, we wanted to point out that all cutlery, plates, bowls, cups, and other service ware are compostable and accepted by the composting facility that we are using for the event. The serviceware was certified as compostable by Le Bureau de normalisation du Québec (BNQ) due to the fact that the company we bought the items from is based in Canada. We verified that the standards are equivalent to ASTM D Please dispose of all serviceware provided by our event in the appropriate compost bins. The lunch period is also a great time to fill out your exhibit hall passport and collect drawing tickets to win a vacation stay in Antigua or St. Lucia, or a free registration pass to CHESC 2017! More details are available on page 109. Sessions C: Panel Sessions TUESDAY, JUNE 28th, :30pm - 2:45pm Monitoring Your Way to Real Savings Ruby Gerontology Center, Room 13 Energy Ripening Efforts Interdisciplinary Talk Impressive savings are often a side effect of a good monitoring-based commissioning (MBCx) project. UC San Francisco will describe the energy conservation measures, energy modeling, and technical hurdles for a MBCx project that reduced electric consumption by about 50% at a large and complex building. UC Santa Barbara will present on their continuous commissioning of a university building conducted by performing an unconventional fault detection process. CSU Dominguez Hills will speak on a duct cleaning project implemented in parallel with a software platform for ongoing system monitoring that has reduced electricity use by 35%, chilled water use by 43% and hot water use by 35%. Moderator: Loralyn Perry, Energy & Utility Manager, Facilities, CSU East Bay Speakers: James Hand, CEM, Campus Energy Manager, Infrastructure and Utilities, Facilities Services, UC San Francisco Adam Wheeler, BSE, PE, LEED TM AP, Principal Commissioning Agent, Commissioning, Sherrill Engineering Tues 1:30pm - 2:45pm Sessions C: Panel Sessions Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 67

70 Tues 1:30pm - 2:45pm Sessions C: Panel Sessions Kenny Seeton, Energy Manager, Central Plant, CSU Dominquez Hills Grace Junge, PE, LEED TM AP, Energy Engineer, EnerNOC Inc. Jordan Sager, Program Manager, Utility and Energy Services, UC Santa Barbara Michael V. Georgescu, PhD, Director of Research, Research and Development, Ecorithm, Inc. Richard Dewey, Associate Engineer, Building Automation, UC Santa Barbara Comprehensive Steps toward Campus Carbon Neutrality Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion A Climate Action Ripening Efforts General Audience Initiatives are growing to limit carbon across the national level, the state level, and on an institutional level. A UC Carbon Neutrality Fellow will explain how internalizing carbon costs could reduce UC emissions in two primary ways. UCSC will speak on their comprehensive Climate & Energy Strategy to address achieving carbon neutrality by 2025 and mitigating the impacts of Cap & Trade regulation associated with campus growth. CSU Northridge s will speak on their Climate Action Plan that establishes a clear path towards eliminating Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 2040 through a number of defined energy conservation and efficiency projects. Moderator: John J. Cook, PhD, MBA, LEED TM AP BD+C, ISSP-CSP, Director of Sustainability, UC Riverside Speakers: Maximilian Stiefel, UC Carbon Neutrality Fellow; PhD Candidate, Geography, UC Santa Barbara Patrick Testoni, CEM, CMVP, Campus Energy Manager, Physical Plant, UC Santa Cruz Chrissy Thomure, CEM, LEED TM AP, Climate Action Manager, Sustainability Office, UC Santa Cruz Helen Cox, PhD, Director, Institute for Sustainability, CSU Northridge Austin L. Eriksson, Sustainability Program Manager, Facilities Planning, CSU Northridge Implementing the CSU Sustainable Food Policy Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion C Procurement & Business Services; Student Affairs & Auxiliaries; and Food Systems Ripening Efforts Interdisciplinary Talk The California State University system passed a systemwide sustainable food policy two years ago. This was a monumental step towards supporting alternative food systems that are truly just and sustainable for producers, consumers, communities, and the environment. Since then there has been a gap in resources and institutional support on how to make the vision for 20% sustainable food by 2020 become a reality. Through hearing best practices and group activities, attendees will be set for success and able to create a plan for their specific campus California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

71 Moderator: Nicholas Salcido, Buyer II, CSU Chancellor s Office Speakers: Estefania Narvaez, West Coordinator Field Staff, Real Food Challenge Stephanie Yee, Student Representative, National Steering Committee, Real Food Challenge; Undergraduate Student, Environmental Studies, CSU Monterey Bay Industrial Applications Kinesiology and Health Sciences, Room 199 Water & Landscape Deep Green Interdisciplinary Talk Potable water is heavily used for the heating and cooling of mechanical equipment and industrial applications. Water conservation and efficiency efforts in this sector have the potential to yield significant water and cost savings while also having no noticeable impact on the campus community. Each presentation will discuss how unstressed and alternative sources of water (recycled water, captured rainwater, and captured blowdown water) can be utilized as make-up water in cooling towers to augment potable water use. This session includes the UC and CSU Best Practice Award winners in the water category. Moderator: Tracy Marcial, PE, Energy Manager, Facilities Planning, Contra Costa Community College District Speakers: Louie M. Oliveira, CPMM, Chief Operating Engineer, Facilities Services, CSU Stanislaus John Dilliott, PE, Associate Director of Energy & Utilities, Facilities Management, UC San Diego Green Labs Waste and Energy: Creating a Sustainable Research Environment from Start to Finish Titan Student Union, Ontiveros Green Building Operations & Maintenance; and Energy Ripening Efforts Interdisciplinary Talk Laboratory waste and energy usage are important components of campus sustainability that come with particular challenges and thus require special oversight. First, representatives from different campuses, including UC Riverside and UC Davis, will discuss their extensive laboratory equipment metering programs, laboratory waste diversion efforts, and lab waste audits. My Green Labs will provide a statewide perspective on the diversity of ways campuses implement such programs. Then a student team from UC Irvine will present on their waste to waves styrofoam recycling program aiming to help the campus reach the goal of Zero Waste by Styrofoam material is collected and repurposed into the foam core of a surfboard in collaboration with a local manufacturer. Moderator: Kevin Mattson, Sustainable Waste Management Specialist, Facilities Operation, CSU Fullerton Tues 1:30pm - 2:45pm Sessions C: Panel Sessions Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 69

72 Tues 1:30pm - 2:45pm Sessions C: Panel Sessions Speakers: Allen Doyle, LEED TM AP, CEM, Sustainability Manager, Office of Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability, UC Davis Allison Paradise, Executive Director, My Green Lab Delphine Faugeroux, MS, LEED TM Green Associate, Green Lab Coordinator, Office of Sustainability, UC Riverside Meagan Browning, Facilities Management Sustainability Team; Student, Environmental Science, UC Irvine Bailey Kinsolving, Facilities Management Sustainability Team; Student, Environmental Science, UC Irvine Diverse Approaches to Addressing Student Food Insecurity Titan Student Union, Alvarado Social Equity and Food Systems Deep Green General Audience College and university students encompass a staggering population of food insecure individuals. This session presents various partnerships and programs that are working to address these issues across California. The Food Riders of Orange Coast College have created a carbon negative program utilizing bicycles and trailers to bring rescued food to their local nonprofit partners: food pantries. The UC Santa Barbara Edible Campus Program is working to streamline the processes of implementing campus farms to address food insecurity. Lastly, UC San Diego will discuss the impact of their Triton Food Pantry to relieve students experiencing food insecurity on their campus. Moderator: Ruben E. Canedo, Food Access & Security Committee Co-Chair, University of California System Speakers: Mike Carey, LEED TM AP, Sustainability Coordinator, Orange Coast College Roy F. Duvall, President, Food Riders of OCC; Undergraduate Student, Construction Engineering Management, Orange Coast College Lukas G. Gemeinhardt, President of National Outreach, Food Riders of OCC; Undergraduate Student, Business Consulting, Orange Coast College Nancy Yang, UC Global Food Initiative Fellow; Student Coordinator, Edible Campus Program; Undergraduate Student, Global Studies, UC Santa Barbara Hayley Weddle, Associated Students Advisor, UC San Diego Dominick Suvonnasupa, Associated Students President, UC San Diego COP 21: Directions, Issues, and Opportunities for Higher Education CSU Fullerton Student Housing, Pine 111 Climate Action Low Hanging Fruit General Audience This panel will address the results and implications of the COP 21 Paris agreement from the perspective of higher education. On December 12, 2015, a record 175 parties signed the Paris accord. In conjunction, French president, François Hollande, stated, referring to the conference outcomes, Our Declarations Must Become California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

73 Actions. Given the critical role of higher education in generating and propagating the actions that will necessarily arise out of the declarations of this conference and its aftermath, what challenges, opportunities, and tasks face higher education and, specifically, California Higher Education in light of the results of COP 21? Moderator: Daniel M. Fernandez, PhD, Professor, Division of Science and Environmental Policy, CSU Monterey Bay Speakers: Sue Carter, PhD, Professor, Physics, UC Santa Cruz Lindsay Buckley, Special Assistant to Chair Mary D. Nichols, Office of the Chair, Office of Communications, California Air Resources Board Emily Williams, Researcher, Climate Hazards Group, Geography, UC Santa Barbara Social Impact through Sustainable Design CSU Fullerton Student Housing, Pine 140 Curriculum and Energy Ripening Efforts General Audience This presentation showcases the work of three universities whose integration of sustainable design serves as a main driver in advancing sustainability education with a social mission. CSU East Bay will focus on a course built around the We Share Solar Suitcase whose fundamental principle of technology design involves work benefiting humanity. Chapman s team approach to the Solar Decathlon 2015 will illustrate principles of teaching and learning about sustainable design. UC Davis will share its course centered on project-based, real-world energy solutions that enable students to gain a deeper knowledge of operations on campus. Moderator: Rais Ahmad, PhD, PE, Civil Engineering & Applied Mechanics, CSU Northridge Speakers: Karina Garbesi, Professor, AGES, CSU East Bay Erik Helgren, PhD, Associate Professor; Chair, Physics, CSU East Bay Gerri McNenny, PhD, Associate Professor, College of Educational Studies, Chapman University Fred Smoller, PhD, Associate Professor, Political Science, Chapman University Elaine Schwartz, PhD, Assistant Professor, Chemistry, Chapman University Lotus Thai, Team Co-Leader, Team Orange County, Solar Decathlon 2015; Environmental Science and Policy, Chapman University Joshua Morejohn, Energy Manager, Facilities Management, UC Davis Tues 1:30pm - 2:45pm Sessions C: Panel Sessions Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 71

74 Tues 1:30pm - 2:45pm Sessions C: Panel Sessions Fullerton City Bike Tour Meet at Titan Exercise Sports Field by the Entrance to the Exhibit Hall Please note that this tour is 1:30pm - 3:30pm (stretching between Sessions C and D) Join us for an easy-paced bike tour through the City of Fullerton. The tour will highlight some of the many challenges and opportunities that the city has with improving bike, pedestrian, and transit infrastructure and access. Representatives from the City of Fullerton and the Orange County Transit Authority will have a short presentation on current plans for the area. Attendees will be given a bicycle and helmet to use for the length of the tour. Distance: 3.5 Miles each way, 7 miles total Tour Guides: Elissa Thomas, Transportation Analyst, Parking & Transportation Services, CSU Fullerton Nathan Torres, Vice President, Cycling Club; Undergraduate Student, Business and Administration, CSU Fullerton California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

75 Sessions D: Stand-Alone Presentations TUESDAY, JUNE 28th, :00pm - 3:30pm STARS 2.0 to 2.1 Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion A Institutionalizing Sustainability Ripening Efforts Interdisciplinary Talk Colleges and universities nationwide report to the Association for Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) to rate their sustainability. Two speakers from UC Santa Barbara's STARS team will present on the changes between STARS 2.0 and the newest version, STARS 2.1. We have taken a comprehensive assessment of the new criteria and standards laid out in STARS 2.1 and will present on our experience collecting data, the key differences between the new and old versions, and what campuses can expect as they start preparing to report under STARS 2.1. Speakers: Mo Lovegreen, Director, Campus Sustainability, Department of Geography, UC Santa Barbara Jogreet Chadha, STARS Assessment Coordinator; Undergraduate Student, Environmental Studies, UC Santa Barbara Home Street Home: A Collaboration Between the Artistic Collective Home Street Home and the UC Riverside Office of Sustainability Kinesiology & Health Science, Room 104 Home Street Home is a multidisciplinary live performance that points out issues experienced by students on UC campuses combining drawings, video projections, dance, theater, and beatbox. Home Street Home aims to create reactions, self-consciousness, and curiosity. The audience will therefore be active participants during the performance: They can make choices as audience members in the space, interact with the artists, play with the accessories, etc. At the end of the performance, the audience members will be invited to help the artists to collect together the waste placed on the floor and create a real-time artwork out of them to emphasize collective effort and recycling. Performers/Creators: Jungwon Ahn, Artistic Designer John Merchant, Entertainer Maiko Le Lay, UC Carbon Neutrality Fellow; PhD Candidate, Critical Dance Studies, UC Riverside UC San Francisco Consolidate & Sort Waste Diversion Program Kinesiology & Health Science, Room 199 Waste Reduction & Recycling Deep Green General Audience As UC San Francisco inched toward a 70% diversion rate, Recycling & Waste Reduction Program staff determined that excellent outreach, clear attractive signage, easy access distinct bins, and ongoing education would not be enough to get the campus to Zero Waste. Staff then looked Sessions D: Stand-alone Presentations Tues 3:00pm - 3:30pm Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 73

76 Sessions D: Stand-alone Presentations Tues 3:00pm - 3:30pm into the option of consolidating our materials to a reduced number of collection points, and sorting compostable material and recyclables out of the material that had been misdirected into garbage containers by staff, faculty, and students. The results have been astounding in that 75% - 80% of the material placed in the garbage can be rerouted to compost and recycling, and costs of garbage hauling have been reduced significantly. Speakers: Adam Schnirel, Recycling and Waste Reduction Coordinator, Facilities, UC San Francisco Using Car-sharing Applications as Part of a Sustainable Campus Safe Ride Program CSU Fullerton Student Housing, Pine 140 Transportation Deep Green General Audience This presentation will focus on the use of rideshare companies as a viable option for campus safe ride programs. The University of California has developed a partnership with rideshare companies, such as Uber, to implement a Campus Cruiser program to provide students such a service. We will discuss the cost benefits and challenges associated with such a program, as well as the effect on mobility in an urban campus setting. Speakers: Michelle Garcia, Associate Director of Transit, Auxiliary Services Transportation, University of Southern California Food Security on Campus and Abroad Through Coffee Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion C Procurement & Business Services; and Food Systems Ripening Efforts General Audience UC San Diego s Triton Blend coffee is a triple-impact coffee benefiting farmers, students, and the environment. The partnership between UCSD HDH, UCSD Health and ecogrounds coffee is expected to generate over $9,000 in annual premiums, with $7,000 directed to Las Capucas, Honduras, and $2,000 toward the Triton Student Food Pantry. To further engage awareness of food insecurity and the environmental and social impact of the world s most traded agricultural product, the partnership includes a Student Brand Ambassador program, which is an internship within the ecogrounds marketing department. Moderator: Matthew Burke, CPSM, Procurement Analyst IV, Procurement Services, UC Riverside Speakers: Krista Mays, Sustainability Coordinator, Housing Dining Hospitality, UC San Diego Katrina Benedicto, Key Accounts Manager, ecogrounds When Free Stuff Leads to Less Stuff: Campus Reuse Depot CSU Fullerton Student Housing, Pine California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

77 Waste Reduction & Recycling; and Student Affairs & Auxiliaries Ripening Efforts General Audience This presentation will cover the creation, evolution, and success to date of an on-campus Reuse Depot at Mills College that has continually operated for the past few years. The Reuse Depot is a primarily student-run space where Mills community members can donate gently used items, and others can "shop" for them for free. The presentation will focus on how this initiative offers a unique opportunity to cultivate a campus culture of conscious consumerism and community, and engage a broader audience in socio-economic and environmental sustainability. There will also be discussion of community partnerships for redistributing donations, methods for measuring impact, and successful viral marketing strategies. Moderator: Morgan King, Sustainability & Waste Coordinator, Facilities Management, Humboldt State University Speakers: Nicole Gaetjens, Sustainability Coordinator, Campus Facilities, Mills College Afternoon Networking Break TUESDAY, JUNE 28th, :30pm - 4:30pm Titan Exercise Sports Field Regain your energy with a little coffee or tea and some exciting conversations at the CHESC exhibit hall. Please consider visiting our sponsors and exhibitors who help pay for our scholarship and fee waiver programs and offset overall costs of our event. When attendees spend a few minutes with each of these companies, it makes an incredible difference in our ability to bring these supporters back from year to year. Remember to pull up the passport in your electronic application or pick up a printed passport, so that you can collect points and the ability to earn prizes for your participation. Prizes include vacation stays in Antigua and St. Lucia, as well as complimentary registrations to CHESC More details on the passport prize system can be found on page 109. Sessions D: Stand-alone Presentations Tues 3:00pm - 3:30pm Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 75

78 Sessions E: Panel Sessions TUESDAY, JUNE 28th, 2016 John J. Cook, PhD, MBA, LEED TM AP BD+C, ISSP-CSP, Director of Sustainability, UC Riverside Tues 4:30pm - 5:45pm Sessions D: Panel Sessions 4:30pm - 5:45pm Getting to the Gold: LEED TM Lessons Learned Ruby Gerontology Center, Room 13 Green Building New Construction & Renovations Low Hanging Fruit Interdisciplinary Talk Difficulties in LEED TM Certification often take resilient thinking. UC Riverside will present on Glen Mor 2, a mixed-use project that pursued LEED TM New Construction Major Renovation as a Group Application for eight buildings. Glen Mor 2 earned LEED TM Gold, but getting to the goal was a nightmare. Many lessons were learned and many will be shared. The West Valley Mission Community College District will speak on the Gillmor Center, a LEED TM Gold facility completed in 2014, which provides a model of sustainable commitment and excellence in sustainable facilities design and operation. The presentation explores the design approach and challenges met along the way. Moderator: Mark Maxwell, Assistant Director of Construction & Sustainability, Design & Construction, UC Merced Speakers: Edralin J. Maduli, Vice Chancellor District Services, West Valley Mission Community College District Dennis Guerra, Architect, Lionakis Partnerships for Action: Higher Education and Community-Engaged Learning for Sustainability Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion A Curriculum Ripening Efforts Interdisciplinary Talk Together with a panel of best practice awardees, this session will feature the results of collaborations on- and off-campus in developing solutions. These programs illustrate the curricular and co-curricular benefits of working with campus and community partners to empower students and faculty through experiential problem-solving. These include CSUSM s student-authored interactive art, media, and design projects that offer solutions, while connecting to local and regional issues; UCI s multiple pathways to unleash student capacity to move from despair to empowerment as change agents; and CSUC s interdisciplinary approach to addressing real issues in the community through classroom engagement. Moderator: Peggy Cabrera, MLIS, Associate Librarian, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library, San Jose State University Speakers: Lucy HG Solomon, MFA, Assistant Professor, Media Design, School of Arts, CSU San Marcos California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

79 Juliana Goodlaw-Morris, Sustainability Manager, CSU San Marcos Abigail Reyes, JD, Director, Sustainability Initiative, UC Irvine Fletcher Alexander, Sustainability Programs Manager, Institute for Sustainable Development, CSU Chico Building Bridges; Environmental and Social Aspects of Sustainability Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion C Institutionalizing Sustainability Ripening Efforts Interdisciplinary Talk It is common for both sustainability and diversity to embody elements of institutional change and organizational development. Over the past year, CSU East Bay and CSU Monterey Bay have initiated discussions regarding the deliberate coordination and support of both the environmental and social/diversity aspects of sustainability. Recently, this discussion has expanded into the California State University (CSU) system. In January 2016, sustainability officers (SOs) and diversity officers (DOs) met separately to discuss common language, identify collaboration areas, and brainstorm next steps to continue the conversation. One result of these discussions was the need for a guided conversation to identify how SOs and DOs can identify deliberate actions to support one another. A facilitated workshop, specific to CSU SOs and DOs, is being planned. This session will highlight efforts to bridge diversity and sustainability at two CSU campuses and at the system-wide level. Speakers: Jillian Buckholz, Sustainability Director, CSU East Bay Lacey Raak, Sustainability Director, CSU Monterey Bay Dianne Woods, University Diversity Officer, CSU East Bay Patti Hiramoto, EdD, Associate Vice President of Inclusive Excellence, Office of Inclusive Excellence, CSU Monterey Bay Understanding the Role of Landscape and Irrigation on a College Campus Kinesiology and Health Sciences, Room 199 Water & Landscape Deep Green General Audience At the beginning of the 21st century irrigation water was relatively cheap and plentiful. For major capital projects, the square foot cost of landscape and irrigation were affordable compared with the costs of building and hardscape. A decade and a half later, reduced funding for education and reduced sources of water have focused attention on the watering of land by artificial means to foster plant growth. Equipment and labor to maintain landscaping has also become unaffordable. What are universities going to do? Teach field sports in a storm water retention structure? Hold graduation in a bioswale? Attend this presentation to learn what is being done. Moderator: Chris Brown, Project Manager, Capital Project Management, CSU Fullerton Tues 4:30pm - 5:45pm Sessions D: Panel Sessions Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 77

80 Tues 4:30pm - 5:45pm Sessions D: Panel Sessions Speakers: Ron Hostick, CSFM, CGM, Manager Landscape and Site Services, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Gary R. Clay, PhD, Professor, Landscape Architecture Department, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Danielle DeMello, Project Manager, Center for Geographical Studies; MA Candidate, Geography, CSU Northridge Boykin Witherspoon III, Executive Director, Water Resources and Policy Institute, CSU Office of the Chancellor James Logsdon, Assistant Director of Grounds and Events, Grounds, CSU Northridge Glen Bennett, Certified Water Manager, EPA Water Sense Partner, Certified Turfgrass Professional; QWEL Certified, General Manager, Aqua Cents Water Management Charting Courses for Changing Climate on Campus Titan Student Union, Ontiveros Climate Action and Curriculum Ripening Efforts General Audience Calculating the impact of behavior change and climate literacy on mitigating carbon emissions from campus activities is a challenging endeavor. This panel charts three paths for integrating climate change awareness through direct engagement with faculty and students. "Leveraging Faculty" examines the integration of sustainability into non-science curricula from the perspective of faculty engagement, "Estimating Impact" investigates the influence climate literacy plays on student's mitigation of their carbon footprint, and "Cool Campus Challenge" assesses the role of individual learning and gameplay to mitigate carbon as part of a campus community. Moderator: Paul Draper, Director of Sustainability, Sonoma State University Speakers: Janika McFeely, Sustainability Specialist, Energy and Sustainability, UC Office of the President Kira Stoll, AICP, LEED TM Green Associate, Sustainability Manager, Office of Sustainability and Energy, UC Berkeley Sara McKinstry, Sustainability Director, Sustainability Office, UC San Diego Eugene Cordero, PhD, Professor, Meteorology and Climate Science, San Jose State University Jane L. Teranes, PhD, Faculty, Scripps, Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego Engaging Students in a Sustainable Food System from Harvesting to Preparation Titan Student Union, Alvarado Student Affairs & Auxiliaries; and Food Systems Low Hanging Fruit General Audience In today's modern fast and ready-made food landscape, we are often far removed from the processes of procuring, harvesting and preparing food. This session highlights various projects that engage student populations in more California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

81 sustainable food practices. UCLA's Food Gleaning Project provides a student-to-student model of harvesting and fresh produce procurement. Then, a Global Food Initiative Fellow will discuss engaging student families in sustainable food programs. Lastly, UC Santa Barbara s UCen will present their work with demonstration kitchens to involve students in healthy and sustainable food preparation. Moderator: Tim Galarneau, Education & Research Specialist, Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems, UC Santa Cruz; Food Access & Security Committee Co-Chair, University of California System Speakers: John Lazarus, Assistant Director, UCen Dining, UC Santa Barbara Jessica Alvarez, UC Global Food Initiative Fellow; Undergraduate, Environmental Studies; Anthropology, UC Santa Barbara Tyler D. Watson, MPH, PhD Candidate, Fielding School of Public Health, UC Los Angeles Savannah Gardner, UC Global Food Initiative Fellow; Undergraduate Student, Environmental Science; Political Science, UC Los Angeles Moving Towards Sustainable Transportation on Orange County Campuses CSU Fullerton Student Housing, Pine 111 Transportation and Local Ripening Efforts General Audience Transportation is one of the most pressing sustainability issues facing Orange County, and the region s campuses have been rising to meet the challenge. At CSU Fullerton, what was traditionally a commuter campus, prospective employees are now introduced to a robust transportation benefits program as part of the recruitment process, and new hires are offered personal commute planning assistance before their first day on campus. Next, Chapman University s temporary restriction of parking lots due to construction resulted in the campus adapting to create a comprehensive alternative transportation plan. UC Irvine has also addressed campus transportation through the hosting of three bi-annual bike festivals to promote education on biking and transportation to the campus and surrounding community. Moderator: Kristen M. Jasko, Interim Director, Parking & Transportation Services, CSU Fullerton Speakers: Elissa Thomas, Transportation Analyst, Parking & Transportation Services, CSU Fullerton Mackenzie Hope Crigger, MBA, LEED TM GA, Energy and Sustainability Manager, Facilities Management, Chapman University Ramon Zavala, Supervisor, Sustainable Transportation, Transportation and Distribution Services, UC Irvine Carolyn Hernandez, LEED TM GA, LCI #4703, Bicycle & Transportation Coordinator, Transportation and Distribution Services, UC Irvine Tues 4:30pm - 5:45pm Sessions D: Panel Sessions Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 79

82 Tues 4:30pm - 5:45pm Sessions D: Panel Sessions Energy & Water Efficiencies Through Smart Laboratory Equipment Purchasing CSU Fullerton Student Housing, Pine 140 Procurement & Business Services Ripening Fruit Interdisciplinary Talk Scientific laboratory equipment is necessary for the advancement and engagement of research on college campuses. However, laboratory equipment can be incredibly inefficient in their energy and water usage. This session will cover procurement strategies to improve energy efficiency through purchasing at the scale of an individual researcher, campus guidance and rebates, and systemwide strategic contracts and tracking. It will cover specific projects on laboratory freezers, incubators, single pass cooling, and various incentive programs. Moderator: Mo Lovegreen, Director, Campus Sustainability, Geography, UC Santa Barbara Speakers: Allen Doyle, LEED TM AP, CEM, Sustainability Manager, Office of Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability, UC Davis Valerie Vergara, CPSM, Life Science Category Manager, Procurement Services, UC Office of the President Daniel Charette, Lab Assessment Coordinator, LabRATS; Undergraduate Student, Pharmacology, UC Santa Barbara Delphine Faugeroux, MS, LEED TM Green Associate, Green Lab Coordinator, Office of Sustainability, UC Riverside Amorette Getty, PhD, LabRATS Co- Director, Sustainability, UC Santa Barbara Campus Green Building Tour Featuring: Student Recreation Center and Facilities Management Office Meet at Titan Exercise Sports Field by the Entrance of the Exhibit Hall This green building tour combines the Student Recreation Center and the Facilities Management office building. The LEED TM Gold certified Student Rec Center was awarded Best Overall Sustainable Design by the UC and CSU Energy Efficiency Partnership Program in 2007, and implements sustainable practices including water saving measures, a construction waste management plan, and green housekeeping. A short walk away is the Facilities Management Office, which houses the Sustainability Programs Offices and was built with modern green products and materials and has deployed advanced lighting controls and LEDs to serve as a model for the rest of campus. Tour Guides: Ken Maxey, MM, Facility and Equipment Coordinator, Titan Recreation, CSU Fullerton Eric Rodriguez, Undergraduate Student, Mechanical Engineering; GEOSYS, Facilities Management, CSU Fullerton Joshua Lopez, Utilities Assistant, CSU Fullerton California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

83 Awards Reception and Banquet (This Banquet was Sponsored by SunPower) TUESDAY, JUNE 28th, :00pm - 9:00pm Titan Exercise Sports Field Please join us in celebrating the winners of the Higher Education Energy Efficiency and Sustainability Best Practice Awards. During this banquet, winners of the Sustainability Champion Awards for UC, CSU, and private college campuses will also be announced. Illuminate Your Night: An Evening Walkthrough of CSU Fullerton Lighting Meet at Titan Exercise Sports Field by the Entrance of the Exhibit Hall 9:00pm (or when the Awards Ceremony is over) - 10:00pm At CSU Fullerton, we continue to research and implement the latest energy savings technologies in a manner that is most beneficial to all viable parties on campus. In the last 12 months, we retrofitted 68,000 interior, linear fluorescent lamps with an LED tube retrofit solution, upgraded the entire lighting in our student housing parking structure, added new sidewalk LED fixtures, and retrofitted our campus streetlights to LED. We invite you to take an evening stroll tour of our exterior lighting upgrades across campus. Additionally, learn about the innovative controls implemented to achieve the highest level of energy savings. We will also discuss best practices in partnering with our local utility company, internal trades, and lighting manufacturers/distributors for successful lighting upgrade implementations. Tour Guide: Kyle Mann, MCM, Energy Efficiency Program Manager, Facilities Management, CSU Fullerton Matthew Pagano, Manager, Energy and Utilities, Facilities Management, CSU Fullerton Ruben Reynoso, Physical Plant, CSU Fullerton Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 81

84 Wed 8:00am - 9:15am Sessions F: Panel Sessions Sessions F: Panel Sessions WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29th, :00am - 9:15am Best Practice Winners in Lighting Design & Retrofit Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion A Energy Ripening Efforts Interdisciplinary Talk Best Practice Winner, UC Santa Cruz, will present on the project that aimed to shed light on the areas where the McHenry library needed light. The project team implemented an LED conversion on most fixtures in the building, as well as performed controls upgrades or modifications in select areas based on energy savings estimates revealed by extensive data-logging. Best Practice Winner and host campus CSU Fullerton will speak on the retrofit of 68,000 interior, linear fluorescent lamps with an LED tube retrofit. They will discuss a partnership with Southern California Edison which ultimately led to CSU Fullerton being one of the first customers in the territory to install and receive incentives for an LED tube retrofit. Moderator: Michael Clemson, Energy Program Manager, Energy & Sustainability, CSU Office of the Chancellor Speakers: Kyle Mann, MCM, Energy Efficiency Program Manager, Facilities Management, CSU Fullerton Matthew Pagano, Manager, Energy and Utilities, Facilities Management, CSU Fullerton Patrick Testoni, CEM, CMVP, Campus Energy Manager, Physical Plant, UC Santa Cruz Sarah Gilchrist, Energy Analyst, Physical Plant, UC Santa Cruz UC Santa Cruz Climate & Energy Strategy: A Roadmap to Carbon Neutrality Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion C Climate Action Deep Green Specialized Talk Best Practice Winner UC Santa Cruz will present the Climate & Energy Strategy (CES), a year-long process completed in April 2016 that resulted in the development of a strategy and recommendations to cost effectively achieve carbon neutrality by 2025 and mitigate the impacts of Cap and Trade regulation. The presenters will provide detailed descriptions on approach -- diving into the energy audit process, share key findings and recommendations, and discuss lessons learned. The team will then guide a high-level training on the analysis tool and walk participants through an exercise to set up and run a scenario and run sensitivities on energy pricing, policy, and campus development. Speakers: Chrissy Thomure, CEM, LEED TM AP, Climate Action Manager, Sustainability Office, UC Santa Cruz Andrea Traber, AIA, LEED TM Fellow, Principal Integrated Design Services Integral Group California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

85 Curtis Schmitt, PE, Principal, Energy Efficiency, ARC Alternatives James Barsimantov, PhD, Principal, EcoShift Consulting CSU Fullerton Campus & Community Growth through Sustainability Kinesiology and Health Sciences, Room 199 Curriculum; Local; Social Equity; and Food Systems Ripening Efforts Interdisciplinary Talk In recent years, CSU Fullerton has implemented several sustainability related projects that integrate the student, campus, and community realms. First, learn about two components of the campus U-ACRE program: (1) how it provides a faculty-mentored, community-based research experience for undergraduate students and (2) the importance of the flexibility and reflection of the program while working towards its goal of increasing community access to sustainable urban food systems. Next, explore the university s interdisciplinary Sustainability Projects course, wherein students work in teams with partners from on and off-campus to develop solutions to problems in sustainability. These projects exemplify the integration of sustainability at multiple levels within the campus community to create comprehensive growth. Moderator: Gregory Dyment, Director, Fullerton Arboretum, CSU Fullerton Speakers: Sara Johnson, Director, U-ACRE; Professor, Anthropology, CSU Fullerton Elizabeth Agredano, Research Fellow, U-ACRE; Student, Anthropology, CSU Fullerton John Bock, PhD, Director, Center for Sustainability; Professor, Anthropology, CSU Fullerton When Baselines Reset: Achieving Further Water Conservation Titan Student Union, Ontiveros Water & Landscape Deep Green General Audience State water-reduction mandates coupled with resetting baselines have forced campuses across California, who have already achieved significant water savings, to dive deeper to find even more water conservation opportunities. Learn how CSU Channel Islands and San Mateo County Community College District have responded to this challenge. Moderator: Deirdre McShane Carter, PE, Energy and Sustainability Manager, Sustainable Berkeley Lab, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Speakers: Hilary Ego, Utility and Sustainability Specialist, Facilities Planning, Maintenance & Operations, San Mateo County Community College District Coleen Barsley, Sustainability and Operations Analyst, Facilities Services, CSU Channel Islands Wed 8:00am - 9:15am Sessions F: Panel Sessions Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 83

86 Wed 8:00am - 9:15am Sessions F: Panel Sessions Raising Awareness and Deciphering Certifications for Healthier and More Sustainable Animal Products Titan Student Union, Alvarado Procurement & Business Services; Food Systems Ripening Fruit Interdisciplinary Talk This session will cover various issues related to the topic of animal products in our food systems. CSU Northridge will present their work in bringing awareness to sustainable issues in the seafood industry. UC San Francisco will speak about the benefits of meat and poultry products raised with non-therapeutic antibiotics. A representative from Farm Forward will bring to light many of the nuances between the various animal product certifications in the food industry. Come join us as we delve deeply into learning more about what's really in our food. Moderator: Eric Pollack, Food & Hospitality Commodity Manager, UC Office of the President Speakers: Helen Cox, PhD, Director, Institute for Sustainability, CSU Northridge Dan Henroid, Director, Nutrition and Food Services; Sustainability Officer, UC San Francisco Health Andrew decoriolis, Director of Strategic Projects and Engagement, Farm Forward Institutionalizing Sustainability with Innovative Student Engagement Approaches CSU Fullerton Student Housing, Pine 111 Institutionalizing Sustainability Ripening Efforts Interdisciplinary Talk Three campuses will share innovative approaches for engaging students in advancing sustainability at their institutions. UC Santa Barbara students are engaging UC Natural Reserves in sustainability practices through their Green Office certification program, PACES. Learn how students can connect reserves with main campus sustainability efforts. San Mateo County Community College District utilizes a collaborative approach for training emerging professionals through their Fellowship in Community College Sustainability (FiCCS). Students at CSU East Bay are taking the lead to complete the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) and Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS). Moderator: Evelyn Young Spath, Executive Assistant to the President, CSU Bakersfield Speakers: Ashley Stewart, Green Office Certification Coordinator, PACES; Undergraduate Student, Political Science, UC Santa Barbara Gwen Alldredge, Energy and Environmental Associate, San Mateo County Community College District Stephen Miller, Deputy Director, Higher Education, Strategic Energy Innovations California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

87 David Liebman, Energy & Sustainability Coordinator, Santa Rosa Junior College Jennifer Scarbrough, Sustainability Ambassador, Office of Sustainability, CSU East Bay Teresa Gamber, Sustainability Ambassador, Office of Sustainability, CSU East Bay Moving Forward: Using Surveys to Better Understand Transportation Trends CSU Fullerton Student Housing, Pine 140 Transportation Low Hanging Fruit General Audience Analytical studies and surveys are effective tools in gathering input from your campus community to better understand why students, staff, and faculty travel the way they do and what will get them to think about changing modes of transportation. What new programs or incentives will different affiliates respond to? This session will look at how transportation surveys are used to determine travel behavior trends on campus and within a neighboring community. In addition, the results of the first university-focused car sharing study will provide a better understanding of how car sharing can change campus travel patterns. Moderator: Teresa Buika, Senior Transportation Planner, UC Santa Cruz Speakers: Thomas Wong, Transportation Program Analyst, Stanford University Nelson Chan, Survey Researcher, Transportation Sustainability Research Center, UC Berkeley Ramses Madou, Associate Director, Planning, Development, and Customer Systems, Parking & Transportation Services, Stanford University Sustainable Campus Housing & Gastronome Tour Meet at Titan Exercise Sports Field by the Entrance of the Exhibit Hall CSU Fullerton provides an on-campus housing community that is sustainable in design and functions to maintain a strong sense of community through the inclusion of its dining center, The Gastronome. Attendees will tour the LEED TM Platinum certified residence halls, the first student housing complex in California to be awarded Platinum by the US Green Building Council. Following this will be a walkthrough of The Gastronome, which provides a variety of options to meet health and dietary needs while embracing sustainable practices. Tour Guides: Tim Guesman, Associate Director of Facilities Operations, Housing & Residence Life, CSU Fullerton Wed 8:00am - 9:15am Sessions F: Panel Sessions Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 85

88 Wed 10:15am - 11:30am Sessions G: Panel Sessions Morning Networking Break WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29th, :15am - 10:15am Titan Exercise Sports Field Did you know that the sponsors and exhibitors cover almost half of the cost of the conference? This enables us to have students attend at a small fraction of the cost of a regular attendee. Please consider visiting the sponsor and exhibitor booths to thank them for their contribution to the event. You might even get to drive a Tesla Model X for your trouble! Sessions G: Panel Sessions WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29th, :15am - 11:30am 2016 CA Energy Code Changes, a Step Closer to ZNE Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion A Green Building New Construction & Renovations; Climate Action; and Energy Ripening Efforts Interdisciplinary Talk The 2013 California Energy Code update drastically changed the face of construction and sustainability planning throughout higher education from new construction to retrofits. We'll update the audience on lessons learned from 2013, steps taken in the 2016 Standards for both residential and non-residential construction, and finally lay out the next steps to Zero Net Energy design envisioned by the State of California. Speakers: Jordan Sager, Program Manager, Utility and Energy Services, UC Santa Barbara Ted Tiffany, LEED TM AP, CEPE, Advisor, Investor Owned Utilities Compliance Improvement Advisory Group (CIAG); Lecturer, Environmental Studies & Planning, Sonoma State University; Associate Principal, Guttmann & Blaevoet Engineers Industry Strategies for Food System Change Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion C Procurement & Business Services; and Social Equity Ripening Efforts General Audience Achieving monumental change in the food system requires designing strategies specific to the different sectors of the food industry. In the Real Food Challenge students have partnered with ranchers, fishers, processing plant workers, farmers, and good-food advocates to imagine the gradual victories we need to achieve in order to transform the food industry. Students and youth, professionals and advocates all play a role in this fight, as solidarity, research, policy implementation, and mobilization are key to push against barriers. Learn about the roles we can play and the strategies we can pursue to transform our food system, one industry at a time. Moderator: Nicholas Salcido, Buyer II, CSU Chancellor's Office California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

89 Speakers: Estefania Narvaez, West Coordinator Field Staff, Real Food Challenge Stephanie Yee, Student Representative, National Steering Committee, Real Food Challenge; Undergraduate Student, Environmental Studies, CSU Monterey Bay Energy Technology, Management, Buildings, and Behaviors to Address Climate Change Kinesiology and Health Sciences, Room 199 Green Building New Construction & Renovations; Climate Action; and Energy Low Hanging Fruit Interdisciplinary Talk Underlying climate considerations in the built environment is a complex interplay between issues related to climate action, energy, and green building. In this session, three campuses will discuss this interplay. UC Berkeley will discuss a unique approach to manage energy usage, emphasizing usage depending on the time varying carbon footprint of the energy source of the marginal generation unit at the time. UC Davis will address the fundamental role that occupants play in the effective regulation of building energy use. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab will introduce a specific energy management plan, ISO 50001, and the challenges associated with their implementation. Moderator: Daniel M. Fernandez, PhD, Professor, Division of Science and Environmental Policy, CSU Monterey Bay Speakers: Joshua Morejohn, Energy Manager, Facilities Management, UC Davis Deirdre McShane Carter, PE, Energy and Sustainability Manager, Sustainable Berkeley Lab, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory John Elliott, Chief Sustainability Officer, Sustainable Berkeley Lab, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Sho Kawano, Student Project Manager, Student Environmental Resource Center, Berkeley Energy and Climate Institute, UC Berkeley; WattTime Chiel Borenstein, Student Environmental Resource Center, Berkeley Energy and Climate Initiative, UC Berkeley; Operations Fellow, WattTime Utilizing Communication for Strengthening Campus Sustainability Titan Student Union, Ontiveros Institutionalizing Sustainability Ripening Efforts General Audience Focusing on communication as a critical aspect of institutionalizing sustainability, UC Davis will present on the campus energy story website that broadens access to energy use data and provides educational content to viewers. Santa Clara University will present on the campus s Center for Sustainability s methods for communicating and educating by sharing examples of marketing strategies that support a campus culture of sustainability. Moderator: Mo Lovegreen, Director, Campus Sustainability, Geography, UC Santa Barbara Wed 10:15am - 11:30am Sessions G: Panel Sessions Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 87

90 Wed 10:15am - 11:30am Sessions G: Panel Sessions Speakers: David Trombly, PhD, Engineer/Data Scientist, Facilities Management, Utilities, UC Davis Elena Thomsen, EIT, Engineer/Data Scientist, Facilities Management, Utilities, UC Davis Cara K. Uy, Sustainability Coordinator, Center for Sustainability, Santa Clara University Developing Policy and Fundraising Mechanisms for Electric Vehicle Charging Titan Student Union, Alvarado Transportation and Energy Low Hanging Fruit Interdisciplinary Talk The rise of electric vehicles comes with many benefits, economically and environmentally. With this increase in electric vehicle ownership come some implications revolving around accessibility and costs of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations. This session will bring to light programs and practices to overcome these obstacles. CSU Fullerton has devised a cost-effective solution to meet the demands of EV charging infrastructure on college campuses with limited resources. Additionally, presenters will discuss recent groundbreaking initiatives from the partnership of California Public Utilities Commission and various Investor Owned Utilities (IOUs) to deploy charging stations all across California in a relatively short time span. Moderator: Ramon Zavala, Supervisor, Sustainable Transportation, Transportation and Distribution Services, UC Irvine Speakers: Kristen M. Jasko, Interim Director, Parking & Transportation Services, CSU Fullerton Matthew Pagano, Manager, Energy and Utilities, Facilities Management, CSU Fullerton Namrita Merino, Strategic Customer Solutions, Business Customer Division, Southern California Edison Addressing LEED TM Topics Through Learning Lab Curricula CSU Fullerton Student Housing, Pine 111 Green Building Operations & Maintenance; and Curriculum Ripening Efforts Interdisciplinary Talk In a session that combines the technicality of green building with the implementation of sustainable curriculum, San Jose State University will present a Living Learning Lab curriculum, incorporated through an art history class that focuses on LEED TM principles exhibited by the campus library s green building design. Host campus, CSU Fullerton will speak on an interdisciplinary capstone course to improve student education on sustainability-oriented fields such as STEM and agriculture. UC Merced will round off the session with a talk regarding the Student-Driven LEED TM Lab Course implemented to educate students as the next generation of sustainability professionals. Moderator: Donald Strauss, PhD, Chair and Core Faculty, Urban Sustainability Department, Antioch University Los Angeles California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

91 Speakers: Peggy Cabrera, MLIS, Associate Librarian, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library, San Jose State University Elizabeth Carroll Consavari, PhD, Lecturer, Art and Art History, San Jose State University John Bock, PhD, Director, Center for Sustainability; Professor, Anthropology, CSU Fullerton Mark Maxwell, Assistant Director of Construction & Sustainability, Design & Construction, UC Merced Andrew De Los Santos, Facilities Management; Undergraduate Student, UC Merced Approaching Sustainability Through Curricular and Co-Curricular Implementations CSU Fullerton Student Housing, Pine 140 Student Affairs & Auxiliaries; and Curriculum Ripening Efforts Interdisciplinary Talk Identifying the unique approaches to sustainability through curricular and co-curricular implementations, Portland State University and Arizona State University will come together to introduce an action plan for implementing functional methods of applied learning for sustainability programs. UC Irvine will present about global sustainability and cultural immersion program that allows students to learn about cultural competence and global leadership development in Costa Rica. UC Santa Cruz will present a talk regarding the inter- disciplinary Sustainability Studies minor, implemented in 2014, and its methods in classroom learning, service learning, and research and application. Moderator: Cully Nordby, PhD, Academic Director, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UC Los Angeles Speakers: Tamsin Foucrier, Program Coordinator, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University Jillian Kardell, Student, Earth System Science, UC Irvine Ronnie D. Lipschutz, PhD, Professor & Chair, Politics; Provost of College 8, UC Santa Cruz CSU Fullerton Drought Response: Landscape Upgrade and Smart Water Meter Tour Meet at Titan Exercise Sports Field by the Entrance of the Exhibit Hall Water and energy conservation is part of a sustainable environmental strategy in California. One of the best ways to reduce water use is to design and maintain efficient irrigation systems. Take a tour through CSU Fullerton s Campus and observe the turf removal and replacement of various native plants and vegetation. See how we also identified and installed smart water meters to measure our entire irrigation system. Observe the bioswales implemented on campus used to convey surface water in order to enhance infiltration and reduce surface runoff. Learn about the several strategies, Wed 10:15am - 11:30am Sessions G: Panel Sessions Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 89

92 Wed 10:15am - 11:30am Sessions G: Panel Sessions goals the campus has implemented, to achieve Governor Brown s EO B of 28% water reduction on campus and how our water management has increased over the time span of only a year. Tour Guide: Kyle Mann, MCM, Energy Efficiency Program Manager, Facilities Management, CSU Fullerton Lunch Brought to You by Enlighted WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29th, :30am - 1:00pm Titan Exercise Sports Field Rejuvenate yourself with some healthy and sustainable food at the CHESC Exhibit Hall. This is your last chance to read the posters and visit the booths. This is also the last opportunity to win prizes through our passport game California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

93 Sessions H: Panel Sessions WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29th, :00pm - 2:15pm Yoga, Well-being & A Sustainable Lifestyle Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion B Health and Wellness According to Yoga, Prana is the all-prevailing vital energy that's available to us unceasingly. Universal Peace starts from within. The knowledge of Prana and its practice will not only benefit our individual well-being, but also the greater environment, for we are all connected. We will introduce this sustainable Yogic life style, the theory of Prana, and some simple practice on cultivating this ever-renewable resource. Hamsa Chaitanya, Yoga Director, Sivananda Yoga Vedanata Center modernizing chilled water pumping systems, and other goals. Stanford University will share the results of a Food Service Technology Center partnership to replace outdated equipment and tighten operations as well as the methodology of a fast and low-cost project to upgrade other types of equipment. Moderator: Austin L. Eriksson, Sustainability Program Manager, Facilities Planning, CSU Northridge Speakers: Dennis K. Elliot, PE, CEM, Director of Energy, Utilities, and Sustainability, Facilities Management and Development, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Erica Kudyba, Associate Environmental Engineer, Utility Services, Stanford University Richard Young, Director of Education, Workforce Education and Training, PG&E Food Service Technology Center Wed 1:00pm - 2:15pm Sessions H: Panel Sessions Revitalizing Retrofits for Building Operations and Management Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion A Green Building Operations & Maintenance; and Energy Ripening Efforts Interdisciplinary Talk Measuring the success of retrofit projects can often go beyond meeting expected savings. Best Practice Winner Cal Poly SLO will speak on the retrofits of multiple mechanical systems with the goals of maximizing return on investment within the payback criteria of loans, Innovative Energy Practices within the California Community College System Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion C Green Building Operations & Maintenance; and Energy Ripening Efforts General Audience This session will showcase innovative energy projects currently taking place at three California Community College Districts and how these districts have overcome unique challenges. Projects to be discussed include a campus-wide MBCx project at Butte College, sub-me- Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 91

94 Wed 1:00pm - 2:15pm Sessions H: Panel Sessions tering and information technology at San Mateo County CCD, and the implementation of a first-of-its-kind Integrated Energy Master Plan (IEMP) at Cerritos College. District representatives will share best-practices and how these projects will help shape the future of campus operations, maintenance, planning, and campuses as a living laboratory. Attendees can expect to leave feeling inspired to pursue similar projects and informed on available funding and resources to assist in their implementation. Moderators: Fred Diamond, Director of Facilities and Construction, Citrus Community College Steven Clarke, P.E., Director, Newcomb Anderson McCormick Speakers: Hilary Ego, Utility and Sustainability Specialist, Facilities Planning, Maintenance & Operations, San Mateo County Community College District Ken Albright, MBA, CEFP, Director of Facilities Planning and Management, Butte-Glenn Community College David El Fattal, MBA, EdD, Vice President of Business Services, Cerritos Community College District Tactical Sustainability: Implementing Programs to Build Momentum and Engage Campus Stakeholders Kinesiology and Health Sciences, Room 199 Institutionalizing Sustainability Ripening Efforts Interdisciplinary Talk Whether your campus is starting a sustainability program or looking to build on previous successes, this session will provide specific tactical action items you can adapt and employ at your campus. Presentations will focus on proven ways to address challenges associated with funding, building coalitions, developing key performance indicators, strategic planning, program marketing, and more. Moderator: John Onderdonk, MESM, LEED TM AP BD+C, Director, Sustainability Programs, California Institute of Technology Speakers: Riley Smith, MA Sustainability, Sustainability Coordinator, Student Life, Saint Mary s College Gwen Alldredge, Energy and Environmental Associate, San Mateo County Community College District Ann McCormick, PE, LEED TM AP, Principal, Newcomb Anderson McCormick Daniela Aramayo, Project Manager, Newcomb Anderson McCormick Carli Yoro, Green Department Associate, Office of Sustainability and Energy, UC Berkeley Putting Food Scraps to Work: From Composting to Closed Loop Aquaponic Systems Titan Student Union, Ontiveros Waste Reduction & Recycling; and Food Systems Ripening Efforts General Audience This session will highlight innovative partnerships and programs designed to divert and recycle food waste on various California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

95 college campuses. CSU Sacramento has implemented a multi-trophic sustainable closed-loop system to convert bio-waste into useful compost. Additionally, USC will speak about how it has engaged multiple stakeholders in a yearlong compost pilot program in an on-campus apartment. Lastly, CSU East Bay will present on their food waste campaign projects and efforts to reach zero waste in their campus dining commons. Come join us to learn about these unique projects working toward more sustainable food waste practices. Moderator: Gustavo Plascencia, General Manager, Dining Services, UC Riverside Speakers: Dudley Burton, Professor Emeritus, Environmental Studies, CSU Sacramento Brook Murphy, Senior Research Fellow, Environmental Studies, CSU Sacramento Ryan Todd, LEED TM GA, Sustainability Manager, CSU Sacramento Erin Fabris, MESM, Sustainability Coordinator, Housing, University of Southern California Hugo Gregoire, Sustainability Ambassador; Zero Waste Team, Sustainability, CSU East Bay Debbie Meyer, General Manager, Food Services, Housing & Residence Life, Aramark, CSU East Bay Jillian Buckholz, Director of Sustainability, CSU East Bay Learning Sustainability Through Social Justice Curriculum Titan Student Union, Alvarado Curriculum and Social Equity Ripening Efforts General Audience In a session that identifies socially responsible academic programs, CSU Chico will present a talk regarding the Sustainability Pathway curriculum that focuses on societal issues related to sustainability themes and environmental justice. Skyline College and Climate Corps Bay Area will partner together to present on The Sustainability Blitz, highlighting collaboration between community college faculty and sustainability education. Antioch University will present on a capstone project that focuses on bicycle justice as part of a master s program in urban sustainability. Moderator: Stuart Cooley, Professor, Renewable Energies, Sustainable Technology Program, Santa Monica College Speakers: Colleen Hatfield, PhD, Rawlins Professor in Environmental Literacy, Biological Sciences, CSU Chico Stephen Miller, Deputy Director, Higher Education, Strategic Energy Innovations Carina Anttila-Suarez, PhD, Professor, Biology, Skyline College Allison Callow, Sustainability Coordinator, Science, Math, and Technology, Skyline College Donald Strauss, PhD, Chair and Core Faculty, Urban Sustainability, Antioch University Los Angeles Adonia E. Lugo, PhD, Anthropologist, Bicicultures Wed 1:00pm - 2:15pm Sessions H: Panel Sessions Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 93

96 Wed 1:00pm - 2:15pm Sessions H: Panel Sessions Logical and Sustainable Commutes: From Buses to EV Charging Stations CSU Fullerton Student Housing, Pine 111 Transportation Ripening Efforts General Audience How can we make our daily work commutes easier, cheaper, and more eco-friendly? This session will encompass best practices of campuses to mitigate costs and carbon footprints when it comes to our daily commutes. UC Santa Barbara will share their partnerships with local transportation entities to garner greater student and employee rider populations by making bus transit free. CSU Fullerton will speak to their practices in innovative electric vehicle (EV) charging systems to overcome energy and demand-related obstacles. Lastly, Stanford University will present on their transit fleet that is entirely composed of electric vehicles which have lowered costs, emissions, and eased daily operations. Moderator: Charlotte Strem, Assistant Director, Physical and Environmental Planning, UC Office of the President Speakers: Robert Silsbee, Planning & Resource Director, The Office of the Vice Chancellor, Administrative Services, UC Santa Barbara Matthew Pagano, Manager, Energy and Utilities, Facilities Management, CSU Fullerton Steve Kelley, Senior Vice President, Green Charge Networks Ramses Madou, Associate Director, Planning, Development, and Customer Systems, Parking & Transportation Services, Stanford University A Collaborative Approach to Supplier Sustainability Scorecards CSU Fullerton Student Housing, Pine 140 Procurement & Business Services Deep Green General Audience UC San Diego launched a pilot to evaluate the environmental impacts of its suppliers, which focused on high volume life science suppliers, assessing their environmental policies and practices. UC San Diego utilized a shared supply chain sustainability platform to solicit and analyze supplier information. Through the platform, suppliers gauge their performance against one another and use this information to drive decision-making behind environmental policies. Following UC San Diego s pilot success, UC Santa Cruz launched their own supplier sustainability scorecard, building upon UC San Diego s work. In this session, UC San Diego and UC Santa Cruz will share their experiences in the pilots and collaborative work. Moderator: Lesley Clark, Commodity Manager, Procurement Services, Professional Services/IT COE, UC Office of the President Speakers: William Watson, Procurement Services Sustainability Intern, Climate and Energy Analyst Intern, Procurement Services, UC Santa Cruz California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

97 Gayle Ta, MBA, PMP, Assistant Director, Integrated Procure-to-Pay Solutions, Business and Analytics, UC San Diego Nancy Nieblas, Strategic Sourcing Associate, Procurement Services, UC Santa Cruz Smartgrid: CSU Fullerton Solar and Trigen Meet at Titan Exercise Sports Field by the Entrance of the Exhibit Hall A walking tour to showcase CSU Fullerton s Micro-grid, encompassing: installed and projected solar sites, installed and projected battery storage sites, our tri-generation plant, and the discussion of the campus integration of all systems. Tour Guides: Matthew Pagano, Manager, Energy and Utilities, Facilities Management, CSU Fullerton Dave Ostrowski, Building Services Engineer, Facilities Management, CSU Fullerton Fullerton Arboretum Tour Meet at Titan Exercise Sports Field by the Entrance of the Exhibit Hall The Fullerton Arboretum is a 26-acre botanical garden with a collection of plants from around the world, located on the northeast corner of the CSU Fullerton campus. With over 4,000 plants, the Fullerton Arboretum is the largest botanical garden in Orange County. Explore the various species and plant life the Arboretum nurtures and saves before they go extinct. The garden paths consist of several collections including: Cultivated, Woodlands, Mediterranean, and Desert Collections. Browse the native vegetation, rare fruit grove, an 11,000 sq ft organic vegetable garden, historic citrus and various other gardens. Learn about the agricultural history and their efforts in caring for the environment. Wed 1:00pm - 2:15pm Sessions H: Panel Sessions Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 95

98 Wed 2:25pm - 3:10pm Sessions I: Taking Action Sessions Sessions I: Taking Action Sessions WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29th, :25pm - 3:10pm Challenges in Implementing Statewide Water Policies Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion A Water & Landscape Ripening Efforts Interdisciplinary Talk This discussion panel facilitates conversation about the challenges an institution faces in meeting water conservation goals set both statewide and systemwide. With a focus on collaboration with local water institutions and within the university system itself, the many faces of water conservation will share their experience in actualizing intended water savings. Join us as we discuss unique challenges experienced by universities and colleges, in mediating behavior change, creating cost-effective projects, and finding ways to continue to save when the goals you set have already been met. Moderator: Nathaniel Wilson, AIA, AICP, CEP, LEED TM AP, Campus Architect, CSU Northridge Speakers: John Dilliott, PE, Associate Director of Energy & Utilities, Facilities Management, UC San Diego Coleen Barsley, Sustainability and Operations Analyst, Facilities Services, CSU Channel Islands John J. Cook, PhD, MBA, LEED TM AP BD+C, ISSP-CSP, Director of Sustainability, UC Riverside Mike Antos, PhD, Watershed Manager, Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority Campus Carbon and Nitrogen Footprint Data: Making Meaning, Making Progress Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion C Institutionalizing Sustainability Ripening Efforts Interdisciplinary Talk Carbon pollution is not the only type of pollution for which campuses are responsible; nitrogen pollution is also a growing issue. The Carbon Management and Analysis Platform, stewarded by the University of New Hampshire, offers standardized methodologies for tracking campus carbon and nitrogen footprints and for analyzing possible reduction strategies. UNH is looking at how to use campus sustainability metrics to make decisions, communicate opportunities and engage key stakeholders. This session will be a facilitated brainstorming and visioning session for sharing input on how CMAP can be of more value to campuses, and to the sector as a whole. Speakers: Jennifer Andrews, Project Director, Sustainability Institute, University of New Hampshire California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

99 Tiny House In My Backyard Titan Student Union, Ontiveros Green Building New Construction & Renovations; and Curriculum Deep Green General Audience Tiny House in My Backyard is an interdisciplinary team of UC Berkeley graduate and undergraduate students working together to design and build an affordable, off-grid, 100% solar-powered tiny house. This prototype addresses population growth and the growth, size, rising cost, and carbon footprint of homes. The design, at the site of the proposed Berkeley Global Campus in Richmond, will be a model for forming a community of carbon neutral housing. The presenters intend to design a context-appropriate home and provide educational opportunities for Richmond residents as well as UCB students, also allowing researchers to test novel technologies for residential design and systems integration. Efforts for sustainability intersect with efforts to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities. The built environment, community design, improvements in food quality and security, transportation systems, and more, can significantly impact health and easy access to health promoting options in a community. This session is a facilitated forum to discuss the intersection of health and well-being and sustainability on college campuses. We will explore this intersection and generate ideas for projects and interdepartmental collaborations designed for the specific purpose of improving the health and well-being of individuals and communities through efforts for sustainability. Speakers: Sharleen O Brien, PsyD, Director of Health & Wellness, UC Santa Barbara The UC Irvine Garden Project: Promoting Sustainable Urban Gardening Wed 2:25pm - 3:10pm Sessions I: Taking Action Sessions Speakers: Brett Webster, MPP Candidate, Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley Caroline Karmann, PhD candidate, Architecture, UC Berkeley Health, Well-Being, & Sustainability: A Discussion for Inspired Action CSU Fullerton Student Housing, Pine 111 Health & Wellness Low Hanging Fruit General Audience CSU Fullerton Student Housing, Pine 140 Food Systems Low Hanging Fruit General Audience This workshop will create a shared understanding of how UC Irvine s Global Sustainability Resource Center (GSRC) will address this year s theme of Campus as a Living Lab. Participants will learn about the UC Irvine Global Sustainability Resource Center s seed-to-plate workshop series, agroecology and foodscapes immersion programs in Central America, the UC Irvine Garden Project, Food Action web portal, and the Campus Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 97

100 Wed 2:25pm - 3:10pm Sessions I: Taking Action Sessions as a Living Lab internship. After, participants will be guided through a discussion to cross pollinate ideas from various campuses about how our institutions can support hands-on student experience of growing food within the context of community building, empowerment, and a social justice framework. Speakers: Emanuel Preciado, UC Global Food Initiative Fellow; Masters Candidate, Urban Planning, UC Irvine Fernando Maldonado, Program Director, Student Affairs Global Sustainability Resource Center, UC Irvine Fuel Cells 101: Mobile and Stationary Power Applications Titan Student Union, Alvarado Transportation Low Hanging Fruit General Audience This workshop is designed to introduce CHESC attendees to fuel cell technology. This workshop will be especially beneficial to those in transportation, facilities, sustainability and environmental positions, and instructors looking to add this challenging topic to their portfolio. In particular the workshop will address: (1) the basic science behind fuel cells, (2) mobile fuel cell applications like vehicles or material handling equipment, (3) hydrogen stations, and 4) stationary power fuel cells. Stationary power fuel cells will be emphasized in greater detail as several UC and CSU campuses already installed fuel cell generators on their campuses. A few products exist on the market and conflicting information might be influencing decisions. To help navigating among these products, offerings by Doosan (phosphoric acid fuel cell), Fuel Cell Energy (molten-carbonate fuel cell) and Bloom Energy (solid-oxide fuel cell) will be discussed in greater detail. Speakers: David Blekhman, PhD, Professor, Technology, CSU Los Angeles California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

101 Sessions J: Taking Action Sessions WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29th, :20pm - 4:05pm Food Security & Access in CA Higher Education Systems Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion A Food Systems Deep Green General Audience Join students, staff, and faculty to explore the resources shared at CHESC and efforts across higher education's 2 and 4 year institutions to address food and housing insecurity. In order for our campuses to be sustainable institutional measures are necessary to ensure we can adequately commit to the students that are admitted. From financial aid and education programming to financial literacy and wellness this interactive session will draw key questions, insights, and opportunities together in order to connect those most concerned to efforts underway that will make a lasting difference on our campuses. Speakers: Ruben E. Canedo, Food Access & Security Committee Co-chair, University of California System Tim Galarneau, Education & Research Specialist, Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems, UC Santa Cruz The Future of Green Labs Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion C Green Building Operations & Maintenance; and Institutionalizing Sustainability Ripening Efforts Specialized Talk As the momentum for Green Lab programs builds across the state, the network of stakeholders, knowledge, and solutions for sustainable lab management are rapidly increasing. The time is ripe to bring Green Labs practitioners together in an interactive session to exchange ideas and build partnerships. Facilitated small group discussions focused around specific topics will provide a space for attendees to discuss challenges and share solutions. Topics include lab occupant engagement, student roles, funding and financing, and prolific laboratory waste streams. The session will also provide a space for highlighting institutional barriers and forming a collective voice to challenge the current status quo. Speakers: Rashmi Sahai, Assessments Program Manager, Office of Sustainability Delphine Faugeroux, MS, LEED TM Green Associate, Green Lab Coordinator, Office of Sustainability, UC Riverside Lily Urmann, Green Labs Facilitator, Sustainability Office, UC Santa Cruz Allison Paradise, Executive Director, My Green Lab Allen Doyle, LEED TM AP, CEM, Sustainability Manager, Office of Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability, UC Davis Wed 3:20pm - 4:05pm Sessions J: Taking Action Sessions Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 99

102 Wed 3:20pm - 4:05pm Sessions J: Taking Action Sessions Vision Carbon Neutral: Learning from Collaborative Planning on UC Campuses Titan Student Union, Ontiveros Institutionalizing Sustainability; and Climate Action Deep Green Interdisciplinary Talk Announced by President Napolitano in November 2013, the Carbon Neutrality Initiative commits UC to emitting net zero greenhouse gases from its buildings and fleet vehicles by Part of the strategic planning effort for this initiative included facilitated meetings with broad stakeholder groups to build a vision for a carbon neutral campus that can be used to guide planning and action towards meeting the 2025 goal. This session will discuss the lessons learned from this process and the next steps of UC's carbon neutrality planning efforts from a systemwide perspective as well as from the Berkeley campus experience. Speakers: Kira Stoll, AICP, LEED TM Green Associate, Sustainability Manager, Office of Sustainability and Energy, UC Berkeley Janika McFeely, Sustainability Specialist, Energy and Sustainability, UC Office of the President Governor Brown has established aggressive Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) deployment goals working towards all new vehicles sales being ZEV by This transformational target will only be met with the full support of higher education in early market deployments, employee training, and idea incubation and implementation. This session will include presentations from representatives of the Governor s Office and City of Los Angeles with a focus on state and local government collaboration with education institutions. How can state and local government best work to expand and accelerate higher education ZEV deployment and programming? Moderator: Charlotte Strem, Assistant Director, Physical and Environmental Planning, UC Office of the President Speakers: Tyson Eckerle, Deputy Director of Zero Emission Vehicle Infrastructure, Governor s Office of Business and Economic Development Wayne King, Los Angeles Clean Cities Coalition Coordinator; Environmental Specialist, City of Los Angeles Leading The Charge To Sustainable Transportation CSU Fullerton Student Housing, Pine 140 Transportation Ripening Efforts Interdisciplinary Talk California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

103 Sharing Sustainability Stories through Student Filmmaking CSU Fullerton Student Housing, Pine 111 Student Affairs & Auxiliaries; and Curriculum Ripening Efforts General Audience A team of UC Berkeley students share experiences using film, to explore and document the experiential learning activities on and off-campus, in extracurricular and co-curricular activities surrounding food systems and sustainability. Supported by the University of California, Office of the President s Global Food Initiative, the team produces sophisticated and evocative films that serve as a rallying point for organizations and food systems advocates on the UC Berkeley campus and beyond. This session presents those films, and discusses the greater significance and opportunity in empowering students to document and tell the stories of sustainability efforts on their campus. Speakers: Jonathan Fong, Filmmaker; Alumnus, UC Berkeley Steven Castro, Student, Film Studies, UC Berkeley Talitha McAdams, Admission Ambassador, College of Environmental Design; Student, Sustainable Environmental Design, College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley Wed 4:15pm - 5:15pm Closing Keynote Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 101

104 Closing Keynote WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29th, 2016 Clayes Performing Arts Center (CPAC), Meng Hall Wed 4:15pm - 5:15pm Closing Keynote 4:15pm - 5:15pm President Mildred García Mildred García is president of California State University, Fullerton, the fourth largest university in the state, serving almost 39,000 students and with an operating budget of nearly $500 million. President García previously served as president of CSU Dominguez Hills where, as the first Latina chief executive in the largest system of public higher education in the country, she eliminated a structural deficit of $2.8 million, received the highest re-accreditation from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, established the Wallis Annenberg Endowed Professor for Innovation in STEM Education, increased alumni donors by 400%, and increased retention rates for first-time full-time freshmen by 10%. An educator foremost, President García began her career as a faculty member at a variety of institutions from Arizona State University to Teachers College, Columbia University where she built a foundation for her now internationally recognized student-centered, collaborative, and transparent leadership style. A first-generation college student, President García earned a Doctor of Education degree and a MA in Higher Education Administration from Columbia University, Teachers College. Marla Cone Marla Cone is one of the most experienced environmental journalists in the nation. She is currently Senior Editor/Environment of National Geographic, where she heads up coverage of environmental issues for the magazine and the website. Cone spent 30 years at newspapers, including 18 at the Los Angeles Times, and was Editor in Chief of the nonprofit journalism group Environmental Health News. Author of the book Silent Snow: The Slow Poisoning of the Arctic, she is a two-time winner of the national Scripps Howard Meeman award for environmental reporting California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

105 Wednesday Night Out WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29th, 2016 Sustainability Officers' Dinner El Torito Grill in Brea, 555 Pointe Drive; Meet at Parking Lot E for the shuttle 5:30pm - 8:20pm $55 Registration Fee This is a networking event open to campus staff whose job is 100% dedicated to sustainability. The price includes the meal as well as shuttle transportation to and from the event. The shuttle will leave CSU Fullerton immediately after the closing keynote at 5:30pm and will arrive at El Torito Grill at 5:50pm. The shuttle will pick up attendees from El Torito at 8:00pm and return to the CSU Fullerton campus at 8:20pm. Documentary Film Night Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion A 7:00pm - 9:30pm Admission open to all CHESC registrants Ready to relax and learn? Come catch a movie with us! We will be screening documentaries related to some of the most urgent and current sustainability topics. Great folks and great conversations await! Overnight Stay and Morning Hike at the Desert Studies Center (w/ Joe Jordan, Stargazing Guide) Meet at Parking Lot E, CSU Fullerton 5:45pm Wednesday evening through 12:00am Thursday $79 Registration Fee (includes Wednesday night housing, dinner Wednesday, and breakfast Thursday) The Desert Studies Center (DSC) is a field station of the California State University, located within the Mojave National Preserve, at the oasis of Soda Springs. The DSC is centrally located within a region of diverse geological, biological, and cultural resources, and provides support facilities for those engaged in research or academic field studies in a rich variety of disciplines. Come visit the center to see amazing stars at night and enjoy a dawn hike. Joe Jordan will be leading the stargazing portion of the evening. Wed 5:30pm - Midnight Wednesday Night Out Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 103

106 Thursday, June 30th, 2016: Post-conference Workshops and Tours Second Harvest Incredible Edible Farm Tour Meet at Parking Lot E, CSU Fullerton 7:30am - 12:15pm $39 Registration Fee Help OC plant, weed, and harvest at the Incredible Edible Farm at the Great Park in Irvine. Depending on the season, you ll be planting seeds or smaller plants, picking weeds, or harvesting broccoli, carrots, onions, strawberries, cabbage, chili peppers, green beans, watermelons, and pumpkins. Then, visit the Farm + Food Lab at OC Great Park. The Farm + Food Lab is a unique and interactive outdoor classroom for visitors of all ages, featuring themed raised-bed gardens, fruit trees, vertical gardening, a chicken coop, a worm compost bin, and solar and wind-powered lights. It is a working and dynamic organic horticulture area with a mission to educate visitors about gardening, inspire innovative and unique ideas, and facilitate a thriving community of people working in partnership. Joint UC/CSU Energy Manager s Meeting (Invitation-only) Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion A (includes breakfast and lunch) 8:00am - 3:00pm This is a free workshop, however please note the restrictions on attendance in the description below: The Joint UC/CSU Energy Manager s Meeting is an in-depth workshop for Energy Managers of Colleges and Universities in California. The focus will be an interactive session for participants to share best practices, lessons learned and practical advice, followed by breakout sessions on topics of interest. Agenda items also include the state of the current UC/CSU/IOU Partnership Program and Program updates. This event is only open to utility representatives and people who fill the role of Energy Manager (or the equivalent) for a college or university campus, unless specifically/ personally invited as a speaker by UCOP or the CSU Chancellor s Office. This event is open to UC, CSU, CCC, and private college Energy Managers California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

107 Mitigating Waste Impacts at the Olinda Landfill Meet at Parking Lot E, CSU Fullerton 9:00am 11:00am $30 Registration Fee Join us on a trip to the Olinda Landfill! The mission of OC Waste & Recycling is to provide waste management services, protect the environment, and promote recycling in order to ensure a safe and healthy community for current and future generations. On the tour, attendees will be able to learn about or ask about Olinda Landfill s environmental programs and control systems such as: a hazardous waste control program, a Landfill gas monitoring, recovery, and control system with a landfill gas-to-energy plant (which produces approximately 38 MW of electricity), a groundwater monitoring, extraction, and treatment and collection system, a leachate collection and recovery system, and a radioactive waste observation program. Zero Net Energy & the School Community for Administrators & Stakeholders Golleher Alumni House 9:00am - 12:00pm Free registration, but advanced registration is recommended Join us to learn how California s K-12 schools and community colleges can achieve Zero Net Energy (ZNE) performance through whole-building retrofits. This three-hour workshop invites administrators, business officers, designers and key school community audiences to learn about the benefits and value of ZNE K-12 schools and community colleges. The interactive session will help build knowledge about the costs and savings associated with ZNE and low energy projects, help participants understand how to access Prop 39 funds to help upgrade a property s energy performance, and address strategies to achieve successful ZNE project financing, planning, design, construction, and operations. The workshop is part of an Investor-Owned Utility (IOU) pilot program aimed at leveraging Proposition 39 dollars to test how some of the state s existing K-12 and community college buildings can be transformed into ZNE facilities. (2 AIA CEUs) Student Convergence Titan Student Union, Portola Pavilion C 9:15am - 2:30pm $30 Registration Fee (includes lunch) Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 105

108 The student convergence is a half-day event highlighting new student campaigns, upcoming projects, and skill-sharing workshops. Students will have a chance to network, discuss, and cross silos with other student leaders looking to better their campuses and communities from California Community Colleges, California State University, University of California, and private campuses throughout the state. The convergence includes a lunch. Please eat breakfast before arriving. Zero Waste Business Associate (ZWBA) Scorecard Training Course CSU Fullerton Student Housing, Pine 140 9:30am - 4:30pm See USZWBC website for course fees (includes lunch) Learn how you can meet your waste reduction goals while creating value through Zero Waste by attending this training based on the comprehensive U.S. Zero Waste Business Council (USZWBC) Zero Waste Facility Certification program. This training is intended for those interested in pursuing the professional Zero Waste Business Associate (ZWBA) Certification; however, enrollment is open to anyone interested in learning more about the USZWBC Zero Waste Facility Certification and how to better understand the Scorecard Certification System. The six-hour course will provide students with an overview of the USZWBC Zero Waste Facility Scorecard Certification System. The course will outline the history of USZWBC, the definition of Zero Waste, what are considered to be Zero Waste policies and programs, and provide a detailed explanation of the Scorecard Certification System, including sample case studies that demonstrate how to achieve credits for each category within the Scorecard. The Training also will provide educational resources and tools to help facilities get started (or complete) their efforts to pursue Zero Waste. Hands-on Waste Audit Meet at Titan Exercise Sports Field 1:00pm - 5:00pm $5 Registration Fee (no meals included) Learn how to perform a waste audit through a hands-on training as we sort through the compost, landfill, and recycling wastes from the conference. This is a valuable skill for anyone interested in careers in environmental consulting or sustainability. Please come in clothes that are comfortable and that you don t mind getting dirty. Only closed-toed shoes and long pants are allowed. Light long sleeve shirts are recommended. This workshop will include hands-on waste sorting California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

109 Host Committee We would like to acknowledge and thank our host committee, which helped us immensely in designing an inspiring program and conference. Kimberly Ball, Director, Titan Shops, CSU Fullerton John Bock, Faculty, Anthropology; Director, Center for Sustainability, CSU Fullerton Emily Bonney, Chair, Academic Senate, CSU Fullerton John Breskey, Faculty, Health Science, CSU Fullerton Emerolina Cantu, Chair, ASI Committee for Environmental Sustainability Chair, CSU Fullerton Sean Chamberlin, Faculty, Natural Sciences, Fullerton College Greg Dyment, Director, Fullerton Arboretum Frank Haselton, Faculty, Environmental Studies, CSU Fullerton Kristen Jasko, Interim Director, Parking & Transportation, CSU Fullerton Doug Kind, Interim Associate Director, Projects & Programs, CSU Fullerton Jere Lipps, Director, Cooper Center, CSU Fullerton Tony Lynch, Director, Campus Dining, CSU Fullerton Mike Matsuda, Superintendent, Board Member OCCCD, Anaheim High Union School District Marta McDaniel, Administrative Analyst, Specialist, Fullerton Arboretum Kimo Morris, Faculty, Santa Ana College Megan Moscol, Sustainability Programs Manager, Engineering & Sustainability, CSU Fullerton Emeri Pechtimaldjian, CHESC Event Planning Assistant, CSU Fullerton Christopher Reese, Government Relations, CSU Fullerton Angela Saavedra, CHESC Event Planning Assistant, CSU Fullerton Justin Tucker, Faculty, Politics, Administration and Justice; Co-director, Center for Public Policy, CSU Fullerton Willem van der Pol, Interim Associate Vice President, Facilities Management, CSU Fullerton Sean Walker, Faculty; Chair, Biological Science, CSU Fullerton Tamara Wallace, Sustainability Projects Coordinator, CSU Fullerton Shelly Wang, University Extended Education, CSU Fullerton Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 107

110 Steering Committee We would like to acknowledge and thank our steering committee, which helps us ensure that the conference mission and vision are upheld each year. Andrew Meiman, UC/CSU/IOU Energy Efficiency Partnership Program, ARC Alternatives Ann McCormick, CCC/IOU Energy Efficiency Partnership Program, Principal, Newcomb Anderson McCormick Brian Maloney, Program Manager Higher Education Partnerships, Southern California Edison Charlotte Strem, 2013 UC Sustainability Champion; Assistant Director Physical and Environmental Planning, University of California Office of the President Christine Clinton, UC/CSU/IOU Energy Efficiency Partnership Program, ARC Alternatives Ed Maduli, Vice Chancellor, West Valley Mission Community College District Fahmida Ahmed, Associate Director, Office of Sustainability in Sustainability and Energy Management Executive Office, Stanford University Katie Maynard, Sustainability Coordinator, UC Santa Barbara; Executive Director, California Higher Education Sustainability Conference Matt St. Clair, Director of Sustainability, UC Office of the President Megan Moscol, Sustainability Programs Manager, CSU Fullerton Meaghan Smith, Principal Planner; Project Manager, CSU Office of the Chancellor Michael Clemson, Energy Program Manager, CSU Chancellor s Office Mo Lovegreen, Director of Sustainability; Executive Officer, Department of Geography, UC Santa Barbara Nathaniel Wilson, AIA, AICP, Campus Architect, CSU Northridge Nurit Katz, LEED TM AP, Chief Sustainability Officer, UCLA Sustainability; Executive Officer, Facilities Management, UC Los Angeles Tamara Wallace, Sustainability Projects Coordinator, CSU Fullerton Tim Galarneau, Education & Research Specialist, Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems, UC Santa Cruz Warren Jacobs, Director, Campus Architect, Facilities Planning and Construction, CSU Los Angeles Willem van der Pol, Interim Associate Vice President, Facilities Management, CSU Fullerton Sarina Uriza Dito, LEED TM AP, Strategic Account Manager, Higher Education, Pacific Gas & Electric Company California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

111 Passport Prize System This year, we are encouraging meaningful interaction in the exhibit show, the CHESC Passport Prize System. You and other CHESC attendees have the opportunity to earn the chance to win a vacation stay or other great prizes by engaging with exhibitors and learning how their company can support your work in campus sustainability. Our exhibitors represent a wide variety of commodities and services and there are sure to be a few that can support your campus initiatives! To participate, visit any booth in the exhibit hall, talk with the exhibitor, take some time to view their demonstrations, and you will be rewarded with some great information and a stamp for your passport. You can get a stamp through your electronic program or through collecting stamps in the printed passport (available at registration). Once you have collected five stamps from different exhibitors, come visit us at the registration booth to collect a drawing ticket. For every additional five stamps you collect, you may receive one additional drawing ticket! By participating, you will have the chance to win a free pass to CHESC 2017, or one of the following vacations: The Verandah Resort & Spa, Antigua The Veranda is a Green Globe Certified Caribbean beachfront resort with two spectacular white-sand beaches, four pools, nature trails to historic Devil s Bridge, four restaurants, tennis & fitness center, non-motorized watersports, kids club & mini golf, and the world class Spa Tranquility; perfect for those seeking a romantic hideaway, family vacation, or just looking to escape and leave the world behind. St. James s Club Morgan Bay, St. Lucia Set amid 25 acres of lush hillside gardens tucked into a private cove on the northern coast of St. Lucia, this all-inclusive, beach-front resort features 345 well-appointed guest rooms and suites offering stunning ocean and tropical garden views. Enjoy the day exploring an array of water-sports and land activities, relax, or experience the majestic ambiance only St. Lucia can offer. When collecting stamps from exhibitors, please be respectful by spending time interacting with the booths and asking questions before asking for a stamp. We hope you have a fun and engaging time at this year s Exhibit Hall. Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 109

112 Sponsors & Exhibitors Platinum Sunpower Booths 73 & 74 SunPower is a global solar technology and energy services provider who puts customers in control of their electricity costs. Educational institutions rely on the company s 30 years of experience and guaranteed performance to provide maximum return on investment throughout the life of their SunPower solar system. By offering schools a complete solar solution and a commitment to educating the leaders of tomorrow, SunPower is changing the way our world is powered. is shared anonymously to a central repository, so that a suite of proprietary apps can harvest it for insights and interface with building systems to optimize the building environment in real-time. Ultimately, the Enlighted System and apps make buildings significantly more efficient, productive, comfortable, and secure proven by the 100 million square feet installed at Fortune 500 companies like Google, AT&T, Oracle, and in universities like California State University Dominguez Hills. Green Charge Networks Booths 58 & 62 Silver Enlighted Booths 9 & 10 Enlighted makes buildings more intelligent by installing a network of smart sensors that gather data on things like light, heat, occupancy, security, and asset location. This data 110 Green Charge Networks delivers intelligent energy storage solutions that are the easiest way for commercial and industrial businesses, municipalities, and schools to save energy costs. Our award-winning energy storage solution delivers industry-leading savings, up to 50% of demand charges on monthly energy bills. Since 2009, we have been providing risk-free, financed energy storage and software that shifts the time of power use, and optimizes electric vehicle charging, solar, and energy efficiency measures California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

113 Office Max/Office Depot Booths 46 & 52 Booths 46 & 52 Interactive Green Waxie Sanitary Supply Booth 37 Office Depot OfficeMax, is a leading provider of products, services, and solutions for Colleges and Universities. Our resources allow us to deliver additional value to Higher Ed purchasing: more cost effective products, a wider set of services, the latest technology, furniture, and print management tools. Office Depot OfficeMax also provides a range of industry-leading solutions to support campus sustainability initiatives including greener purchasing programs, STARS, and Zero Waste efforts. Beyond offering solutions, Office Depot OfficeMax is a recognized Corporate environmental leader, having ranked as America's #1 Greenest Large Retailer in America by Newsweek Magazine in 2010, 2011 and WAXIE Sanitary Supply has been the experts in clean since WAXIE GPS Green Partner Support TM Program guides you to more sustainable cleaning solutions which can help you reach your overall occupant wellness, sustainability, and budgetary goals. With inventory centers strategically located throughout California and the Western United States, and LEED TM Accredited Professionals on staff, WAXIE can assist in implementing green cleaning solutions that can contribute to cleaner, healthier, greener, and safer learning environments for your campus facilities. business.officedepot.com Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 111

114 Community Aircuity Booth 66 Aircuity creates measurably better environments while taking a bite out of energy goals. The company s smart automated airside solutions optimize air change rates based on comprehensive indoor environmental data. As a result, commercial, institutional and lab building owners can lower operating costs, improve safety and cut energy use by up to 60%. Aircuity s solutions have benefited organizations such as the University of Pennsylvania, Michigan State University, Arizona State University and the University of California, Irvine. Antioch University Los Angeles Booth 69 a lasting and positive impact on the world. Our low-residency Master of Arts in Urban Sustainability Program is training the next generation of urban problem-solvers to meet the world s dual challenges of climate change and inequality. Graduates are leading the public and private sector making positive change. AULA is a private, nonprofit, regionally accredited institution. EnerNOC Booth 75 EnerNOC helps colleges and universities save money, improve the campus learning environment, and support higher education sustainability goals by using energy and utilities more effectively. We help you to stop simply paying for energy and start managing it. Our energy intelligence software and services address the full lifecycle of energy management, from procurement to consumption to internal and external reporting. Enviropure Systems, LLC. Booth 39 Antioch University Los Angeles is a progressive, learner-centered university, where individual spirit thrives. We are a community of innovators, free-thinkers, and rabble-rousers determined to make EnviroPure s self-contained, continual feed organic system provides a safe, California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

115 cost-effective, and fully customized solution for food waste disposal. Enviro- Pure uses a 100% organic process that yields only environmentally safe grey water that meets, and often exceeds, municipal wastewater requirements. EnviroPure s custom design offers the flexibility of incorporating remote grinders, such as troughveyors, to reduce labor and make it easy to divert food waste without storing the organic totes. Espen Technology Booth 36 Espen Technology is dedicated to delivering sustainable and environmentally progressive lighting solutions. Espen continually strives to improve the efficiency of lighting technology. Our engineers have developed a whole line of LED drivers, LED lamps, and LED modules that are worthy of the latest LED luminaries. Espen s LED products along with fluorescent lamps and ballast are complemented by an industry-leading warranty policy. Espen not only offers products, but solutions to our customers and end-users. Haley & Aldrich, Inc. Please visit the website below, Haley & Aldrich does not have a booth this year. Haley & Aldrich, Inc. is committed to delivering the value our clients need from their capital, operations, and environmental projects. Our one-team approach allows us to draw from our 600 engineers, scientists, and constructors in nearly 30 offices for creative collaboration and expert perspectives. Since our founding in 1957, we have one goal in all we do: deliver long-term value efficiently, no matter how straightforward or complex the challenge. MAMAC Systems, Inc. Booth 67 MAMAC Systems is a 34 year global manufacturer of HVAC Sensors for Temperature, Humidity, Pressure & IoT based Maverick Metering, Monitoring, and Control Appliances. Featuring the lowest cost solution to collect and graphically display real-time energy and water consumption data to influence behavior change among students, faculty, and staff for sustainability. MA- MAC s IoT based Maverick meters can be deployed over existing campus IT networks. The Mavericks have a built in dashboard and can be accessed by any smartphone, tablet, laptop, or PC using a web browser. The Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 113

116 Maverick meters log data in CSV format to be imported into Excel for energy analytics and archiving. Additional IoT Mavericks are available for remote monitoring, scheduling, and control for multistage rooftop, heat pump, and split computer room units. Temperatures can be remotely scheduled based on occupied times to improve energy efficiency. The Mavericks provide the lowest installed cost solution usually 60-80% lower than other platforms. No software, no site or user licensing fees, no maintenance contracts, or any other recurring costs are involved. Siemens Building Technology Booth 11 UC/CSU/IOU Energy Efficiency Partnership Booth 70 The University of California (UC), California State University (CSU), and California s four large Investor-Owned Utilities (PG&E, SDG&E, SCE and SoCalGas) established the UC/CSU/IOU Energy Efficiency Partnership in 2004 in order to provide a sustainable and comprehensive energy management program for the 33 UC and CSU campuses. To date, the Partnership has achieved annual savings of over 50 MW, 400 million kwh, and 21 million therms per year, resulting in nearly 230,000 metric tons of CO2 avoided annually. Siemens Building Technologies is the world market leader for safe, energy efficient, and environmentally friendly buildings and infrastructure. As a technology partner, consultant, service provider, system integrator and product supplier, Siemens Building Technologies offers fire safety, security, building automation, heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), as well as energy management products and services. Wave PowerSteward Booth 38 Wave PowerSteward is a smart power management tool that applies power settings based on an organization s unique behavior and usage patterns California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

117 Wave PowerSteward runs as a background service to quietly measure each computer s electrical usage and aggregate this data into analytical dashboards, providing significant cost avoidance and energy conservation. Wave s tool allows for all IT maintenance windows. Exhibitors Applied Power Technologies, Inc. Booth 54 Interactive Booth: Software Demonstration World Centric Booth 44 World Centric is a socially responsible company that provides zero waste solutions to reduce environmental impact. We provide high-quality compostable food service disposables and food packaging products for use in schools, cafeterias, restaurants, hospitals, cafes, etc. Our products are made from annually renewable resources such as corn, sugarcane, and wheat straw fiber. World Centric started as a non-profit in 2004 and is now a California Benefit Corporation and a certified B-Corp. We offset all our carbon emissions and donate a minimum 25% of profits to environmentally and socially conscious organizations. Applied Power Technologies, Inc. is a locally owned business since 1994 providing technology solutions to manage energy usage for utility, industrial, campus, and commercial power systems. APT offers energy metering and services for cost allocation, power quality, advanced monitoring systems, and consulting on energy system optimization. Aqua Cents Booth 57 New patented technology brings the proven benefits of organic hydrogels to existing turf. These benefits have been widely used in horticulture and AG for 30+ years, but in new installations. Aqua Cents is delivering up to 50% Water Savings, and currently being used at Fresno State University, CSU Northridge, and CSU San Marcos on Sports Fields and high-traffic event venues, as well as commercial & residential properties. Aqua Cents ability for repeated absorption and release, over a sustained period of up to 5-7 years, is providing cost-savings of up to 50% with attractive ROIs. Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 115

118 Aztec Solar, Inc. Booth 18 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Booth 23 As a leader in high quality solar installation and service, Aztec Solar, Inc. can provide Universities with cost-effective energy solutions. Aztec Solar, Inc. has been in the Solar Industry since We take great pride in providing effective solutions to more than 12,000 customers. Because we are licensed, bonded, certified, and experienced, we are the preferred choice of both manufacturers and clients. Aztec Solar, Inc. employs a highly-trained, specialized workforce and does not rely on outside sub-contractors. Belimo Booth 72 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Israel s fastest growing institution of higher learning, remains true to its founding purpose by actively promoting high-technology, desert preservation, water resource management, alternative energy, international health services, and education in the Negev region. Students can attend the Overseas Student Program (OSP) for semester and summer options or apply for Masters and PhD programs at the University s Albert Katz International School for Desert Studies. For-credit research opportunities are also available in a variety of fields. BYD Motors Booth 1 Belimo is a world leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of damper actuators and control valve assemblies used in commercial HVAC systems. Belimo is well known for its innovation of the direct-coupled actuator and innovations in pressure independent control valve technology. Belimo provides the solutions that customers need to maintain an efficient building environment. BYD Motors Inc. is an American manufacturing company and a wholly-owned subsidiary of BYD Company Ltd, the largest EV auto-manufacturer and electric-bus manufacturer in the world. BYD is a publicly traded company, with the Hong California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

119 Kong listed stock 60% of which is owned by U.S. investors, and Warren Buffett s Berkshire Hathaway as the largest single shareholder at 9.9%. BYD Motors established its headquarters in downtown Los Angeles in October 2011 and has now hired over 300 Americans to primarily support BYD s US electric vehicle business. Sustainability at California State University, Fullerton Booth 28 e-ride Industries, Inc. Booth 63 Interactive e-ride Industries is an OE manufacturer of 100% Electric Utility Vehicles and Neighborhood Electric Vehicles. All e-ride Industries vehicles are designed and built in Princeton, MN to meet the needs of their commercial/ industrial fleet customers. e-ride Industries will be represented at the conference by their Sales Dealership Electric Truck Industries based out of California. Exergy Controls Sustainability-focused student groups and departments from California State University, Fullerton will share highlights of recent campus sustainability projects and initiatives. Featured organizations will include Associated Students Inc, Committee on Environmental Sustainability, the Center for Sustainability, U-ACRE, Fullerton Arboretum, USGBC Students Group, CSU Fullerton Chapter, and others. The booth will be staffed by members of these groups throughout CHESC. engineering_sustainability/ Booth 27 Featured in University Business Magazine, Exergy Controls provides individual management of indoor lighting and exterior parking, walkway and roadway lighting fixtures that save 40% to 65% in lifetime energy costs. Exergy s unique wireless mesh network creates a digital address for each light fixture, allowing them to be controlled individually or in groups. Digital control of lighting offers a method of control that is Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 117

120 simple to understand yet easy and affordable to install. Farmlogix Booth 17 Innovative Booth: New Patent Pending Technology For the past 30 years, Flow Control has manufactured the DeltaPValve, a precision control valve for the heating and cooling of commercial buildings. What sets the DeltaPValve apart from other control valves on the market is the scientific proof to confidently guarantee system stability, diversity and performance at an unparalleled level of accuracy. The DeltaPValve s unique and patented design has helped save Flow Control clients millions of dollars in annual energy savings, reduced operating costs and avoided capital costs. Graybar and Acuity Brands Farmlogix is a sustainable foods management company that provides a comprehensive suite of services to assist in meeting an institution's sustainable goals. From assisting a distributor in making more sustainable products available, to tracking purchases so that customers can report on and/or market their efforts, we are here to provide viable transparency. From our patent pending technology to our reporting and marketing services Farmlogix makes responsible food purchasing simpler. farmlogix.net Flow Control Industries, Inc. Booth 45 Innovative Booth: Meet Someone from the Development Team! Booth 33 Graybar is a leading distributor of high quality electrical, communications, industrial, security and networking products, and specializes in related supply chain management and logistics services. Visit or call GRAYBAR. Acuity Brands is the North American market leader and one of the world s leading providers of innovative lighting solutions. Our century of tradition, our current financial strength and our commitment to a sustainable future, ensure our ability to grow, innovate and further capture the rapidly growing market opportunities before us California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

121 Green Commuter Booth 61 Interactive: Test Drive a Tesla Model X Hydro-Convergent Technologies, Inc. Booth 50 Innovative: Meet someone from the Development Team! Green Commuter has developed an innovative system that utilizes a fleet of 100% zero emission vehicles to provide a combined service of vanpool, car sharing, and fleet replacement. As an entrepreneurial, socially minded, and passionate group based in Los Angeles, Green Commuter s goal is to help alleviate traffic, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and decrease the cost of commuting and mobility. Ground Control Systems Booth 29 Park A Bike is what we do; Ground Control is how we do it. Ground Control Systems is the evolution of Park A Bike, taking our best practices to the next level to offer masterfully planned solutions that make the most of your valuable real estate. Be part of our evolution. Take control of your ground. We park bikes, but we do it with intense planning and skill and we'll directly address individual "pain points" to find the best solution. HCT is a privately owned and operated company. The corporate team possesses the expertise and commitment to develop systems that conserve and recycle industrial water, incorporating sustainable energy solutions which complement those systems. The systems are designed to incorporate green technologies to significantly reduce water lost in commercial and industrial cooling tower operations and to recycle a significant amount of water discharged from all types of industrial or commercial processes. HCT provides a single point of contact for our customers to identify solutions and fund sources. HCT is positioned within strategic business partnerships, which will enhance our water conservation systems by integrating energy reduction and demand side management technologies into the entire plant operations. Intellilum Booth 56 Intellilum provides real-time data on secure cloud-based software to monitor and manage people, places, things, and energy. Using secure WiFi protocols with multiple layers of encryption, our big data is collect- Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 119

122 ed from a granular network of integrated sensors & controls in high-performance onepiece LED lights. New & retrofit lights in 2 4, 2 2, 1 4, high bay, and modular linear are available. Lucid Booth 43 Interactive: Software Demonstration Java City/ecoGrounds Coffee Booth 16 Interactive: Coffee Tasting Java City is a specialty coffee roaster and wholesaler headquartered in Sacramento, California. Our coffee is served at over 3,000 retail and wholesale locations worldwide. We source high quality Arabica beans from farms that practice sustainable farming techniques and compensate workers fairly. Our beans are hand roasted and air cooled, creating the intricate flavor profiles and smoothness our coffee is known for. Java City s ecogrounds coffee is a full lineup of certified Rainforest Alliance, Organic, Direct Relationship, and/or Fair Trade. Lucid provides a data and analytics platform to make data-driven decisions to improve building efficiency and portfolio performance. A recognized pioneer in using data visualization to understand and quickly identify savings in energy, gas, water and other resources, today Lucid s SaaS-based BuildingOS platform has over 500 customers, 11,000 buildings and one billion square feet under management and empowers teams across finance, operations and sustainability to collaborate to get the best from their buildings. Max-R Booth 60 Interactive: Product Demonstration As the innovator of customized waste and recycle bins, we ve made creating your ideal waste and recycle bin easy. Made from 97% post-consumer HDPE milk jugs, and built in a factory utilizing California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

123 100% renewable energy and a lean manufacturing process, our products are a sustainable solution for your waste and recycling program. With 10 standard colors, thousands of available options, and a variety of logo applications, our waste & recycling bins can be customized to meet both your functional and design needs. service staff that can install, calibrate, and certify all our products in the field or at the MCS service shop. Industrial sales - engineered flow, pressure and temperature measurement and monitoring solutions for all process applications. Technical services meter installation, test & repair, instrument calibration & certification mcsmeters.com Measurement Control Systems Booth 65 Interactive MetaBIM Booth 64 Established in 1964, Measurement Control Systems (MCS) is a California-based business supplying water, gas, mass flow, and ultrasonic meters and AMR/AMI systems to thousands of utility, industrial, and government customers throughout the US and the world. MCS is the largest distributor in the country for the number one Gas meter in the world (Elster American Meter) as well as being the distributor for the second largest water meter manufacturer in the world, Zenner. MCS has the unique ability to offer engineering assistance for meter specification, a vast warehouse to stock and deliver products, and a professionally trained MetaBIM is a California company. We provide best-in-class collaborative, enterprise facilities database solutions for CA higher-education campuses. Our client institutions are achieving more effective space planning and resource management, and simultaneously streamlining facilities maintenance and operations, which in turn drives down costs and supports sensible, sustainable campus management. Metron-Farnier, LLC Booth 55 Metron-Farnier is a Water Meter Company that provides Single Jet Water Metering Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 121

124 Technology to the US Markets. We have also Pioneered Cellular Solutions for the water meter industry and now have an Ultrasonic Water Meter Line as well. We have been assisting CSU campuses with new meter installations and Cellular Solutions for Fullerton, Channel Islands, and Dominquez Hills. MI Technologies, Inc. Booth 68 Innovative: New Technologies and Services MI Technologies is the largest manufacturer of projector lamps in North America and the worldwide largest distributor of Philips, the manufacturer of about 60% of all lamps for projectors of almost all brands and models. Together with the University of San Diego Electronics Recycle Center we created a program offering schools and universities a cash reward for recycling their mercury containing projector lamps. Components of a projector lamp will be re-purposed and recycled, so that raw material or parts can be utilized in the assembling and production process, or recycled through certified companies. A representative of Philips, the worldwide largest manufacturer of projector lamps, will participate at the booth, answer questions about new technologies and sustainability programs. Mohawk Industries Booth 8 Mohawk Group, the world s leading producer and distributor of quality commercial flooring, delivers industry-leading style, cutting-edge innovation, unmatched service and superior sustainability. As the commercial division of Mohawk Industries, Mohawk Group has a heritage of craftsmanship that spans more than 130 years. The company s enduring family of brands Karastan, Lees, Bigelow, and Durkan are widely regarded as the most trusted names in the commercial flooring business. Together, these brands function beautifully, delivering the perfect flooring solution for all markets and price points. Rounding out its esteemed product offering, the Mohawk Group also offers a full spectrum of hard surface flooring products and installation accessories that exceed the most rigorous performance standards. For additional information about its proven design solutions, and to learn more about what is next from Mohawk, visit or call (800) California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

125 P2S Engineering Booth 40 Revolution Bag Booth 24 P2S Engineering, Inc. is a full-service mechanical, electrical, plumbing, technology, energy engineering firm with commissioning and construction management services that is committed to sustainability. For 25 years, we ve provided sustainable design to California higher education campuses. We provide design solutions that cater to a unique point of view the client s. Philips Booth 68 Digital Front Projectors are well accepted and widely used throughout Schools adopting this powerful presentation tool as they find that projector usage helps to capture student s attention. By introducing ImageCare, Philips enables a new way of operating projector lamp systems that is intuitive, familiar, and environmentally conscious. Where Schools take care of preparing students optimally for the future, Philips makes sure they can use a better and more environmentally friendly Lamp Technology. Revolution Bag offers can liners for every type of commercial or industrial need. Containing 30% to 94% post-consumer recycled resin, the bags are comparable in quality to any non-epa compliant can liners. Their strong, durable construction equals or exceeds that of liners made of non-recycled materials. Revolution Bag creates the liners through a closed-loop, in-house system that ensures the highest-quality post-consumer recycled resin (PCR). Because of this, more than 1 billion pounds of waste has been diverted from landfills. Saris Cycling Group Booth 51 Interactive: Product Demonstration Saris Cycling Group believes in the bike. With today s young adults wanting to ride more and drive less, bicycle parking and infrastructure are essential pieces to a great campus. For over 25 years, we ve been designing and manufacturing our bicycle Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 123

126 parking products to help colleges and universities become more bike-friendly. Saris products help inspire more action to build healthy, sustainable, and livable institutions of higher education. Signal Campus Booth 59 Shaw Industries Group Booth 35 Interactive Shaw Industries Group, Inc. (Shaw) is the world s largest carpet manufacturer and a leading floor covering provider. The company supplies carpet, hardwood, laminate, resilient, tile & stone flooring products and synthetic turf to residential and commercial markets worldwide via its brands Anderson, Patcraft, Philadelphia Commercial, Shaw Contract Group, Shaw Floors, Shaw Hospitality Group, Shaw Sports Turf, Tuftex, and more. A wholly-owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., Shaw takes a holistic approach to sustainability. Every material. Every process. Every action. Designed to create a better future. To learn more, visit: Signal Campus provides free revenuegenerating recycling bins to college campuses across the country. Each bin is custom manufactured, delivered, installed, and maintained at our own expense. If you ve been looking for a way to generate thousands of extra dollars per year while enhancing the appearance of your current recycling-bins with no out of pocket costs, we may be just the solution you ve been waiting for. Sika Sarnafil Booth 12 With more than 15 billion square feet of roofing and waterproofing installed and 50 years of outstanding performance, Sika is a worldwide leader in sustainable roofing and waterproofing. Offering state of the art systems including Energy Star rated reflective roofing, green roofs, and photovoltaic ready systems, all exceeding critical Green Globes, LEED TM, C.H.P.S, and Title 24 criteria, Sika Sarnafil roofing is the California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

127 standard for education owners requiring a long life cycle, watertight performance, and low maintenance costs. usa.sarnafil.sika.com heat water for any home or business. Solar water heating systems work with traditional water heating systems to deliver hot water day, night, rain or shine. Start the change today. Sloan Valve Company Booth 32 Stirling Ultracold Booth 49 Water Connects Us. Every day around the world, Sloan products connect the systems that manage our planet s most precious resource. As the world s leading manufacturer of commercial plumbing systems, we ve spent more than a century pioneering smart, water-saving restroom solutions that are built to last a lifetime. Southern California Gas Booths 3 & 4 Interactive: Mobile Education Unit Stirling Ultracold develops and manufactures a new generation of environmentally friendly ultra-low temperature freezers which operate from -20 C to -86 C. These freezers do not use compressor-based or cascade refrigeration systems, but use a patented free-piston Stirling engine technology developed for critical energy, aerospace, and industrial applications. Offering unsurpassed sustainability benefits, this ULT storage solution uses less than half the power of leading cascade ultra-low freezers and uses 100% natural refrigerants. Stirling Ultracold ultra-low freezers are sold worldwide to life science, pharmaceutical, biomedical/clinical, and biotechnology customers. SoCalGas presents solar water heating: a cost-effective and sustainable way to Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 125

128 SupplyWorks Booth 71 source analytics available on our smartphone app. SupplyWorks is the leading national provider of integrated facility maintenance solutions. Our smart solutions and unparalleled expertise advance the performance, image, safety, health, and sustainability of facilities throughout the United States. We serve a wide array of customers, including offices, schools and universities, healthcare institutions, building service contractors, lodging, and many others. In addition to a full spectrum of facility maintenance products, ranging from janitorial and cleaning supplies to plumbing, electrical, HVAC, and more, our facility maintenance experts leverage proprietary programs to provide tailored solutions that address the unique and changing needs of our customers. TelkoNet Booth 34 Thermo Fisher Scientific Booths 25 & 26 Thermo Fisher Scientific is the world leader in serving science. Customers worldwide trust the tools and solutions available through its premier brands to help them accelerate innovation and enhance productivity. Its Fisher Scientific brand offers convenient access to the most comprehensive offering of products and services to allow customers in scientific research, safety, healthcare, and education to increase productivity and efficiency. Through this extensive global channel, it provides a complete portfolio of laboratory equipment, chemicals, supplies, and services. Titan Shops Telkonet is an Internet of Things solutions company with a platform specifically tailored to higher education residences. Through our hardware (smart thermostats, occupancy sensors, smart outlets, smart switches), and software (EcoMange, EcoCentral) we offer an occupancy based connected system performing building wide analytics as well as single Booth 22 Sustainable practices are import to the many programs and services offered by Titan Shops, and a part of daily operational practices. Titan Shops was a pio California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

129 neer in creating programs such as textbook rentals and guaranteed buyback, which not only encourages students to recycle textbooks, but save students money. Operationally, staff recycle boxes and packing material for re-use. Titan Shops is a division of CSU Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation, a non-profit auxiliary supporting the CSU Fullerton programs and services. Visionaire Lighting, LLC. Booths 6 & 7 WESCO DISTRIBUTION, INC. Booth 20 WESCO provides electrical, lighting, solar, data communications, security, safety products and value-added services. Our dedicated Government & Institutional and specialty teams have a focus to assist Higher Education with technology challenges and expertise to reach Sustainability goals. Together with our partners --- Eaton & SolarEdge --- we can provide Lighting and Solar solutions to lower maintenance costs and increase energy savings on your campuses. Visionaire Lighting is proud to celebrate its 12th year of bringing new outdoor lighting technology to the market place. Our new website showcases the broad array of HID as well as LED products that we have introduced over the past 4 years. Visionaire Lighting s plants are all vertically integrated and include die casting, sand casting, metal spinning and fabrication, as well as a state of the art powder coat paint facility. A new LED lab and SMT assembly area assure quality and timely production of all of our LED products. Yamaha Golf Cars of California, Inc. Booths 13 & 14 Yamaha Golf Cars of California, Inc. has been serving the golf car and utility vehicle needs of California for over 30 years. We have recently added the Cushman line of utility and passenger vehicles to better serve your needs. We cover all of California from our locations in Livermore and La Mirada. info@yamahagolfcarsofca.com Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 127

130 Zipcar Booth 47 Interactive: Product Demonstration Zon Booth 41 Zipcar is pleased to provide college campuses with our 15 years of experience in supplying university-based car sharing to enhance the life of students, faculty, and staff alike. With over 525 programs, our unprecedented level of experience provides us with a unique and in-depth understanding of the requirements, objectives, and activities that a university aims to address by maintaining a program with a world class car sharing organization. The Powersol from ZON is engineered using a standard 9' quality patio umbrella equipped with secure solar panels and a smart battery hub which provides a convenient, affordable, and sustainable mobile device charging solution for campuses. Electricity from solar energy continuously charges a powerful rechargeable lithium ion battery in a weatherproof case providing charging power for students outdoors 24 hours a day. The Powersol can charge 3 USB devices at a time as fast as a wall outlet! The Powersol fits existing patio tables or stands alone and requires no special, costly installation California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

131 Acknowledgements This year's conference would not have been possible without the help of the following people: Fletcher Alexander Carl Alty Michael Anthony Joshua Bagshaw Bonny Bentzin Mechelle Best John Bock Meghan Brightwater David Brumley Andie Burke Daniele Burns Rose Calvaro Michael Carey John Carroll Deirdre Carter Antonia Castro-Graham Marie Causing Kyra Causing Angela Chen Jeffrey Craddock Marilyn Dela Cruz Richard Didcoate Jaime Didcoate Jacki Drumm Greg Dyment Katrina Eberly Francisco Ferreyra Joseph Fitzgerald Tom French Judy Goberdhan Timothy Guesman Roberta Hagopian Rachel Harvey Kelly Hayes Lauren Henderson Drew Hester Ingelis Jensen Navpreet Khabra Doug Kind Morgan King Lin King Jackie Korman August Lack John Lang Kurt Leuschner Jere Lipps Jenel Lopez Mo Lovegreen Tony Lynch Brian Maddock Tracey Magyar Kyle Mann Tariq Marji Zuhair Mased Kevin Mattson Katie Maynard Colleen McCormick Pam McLaren Lisa McNeilly Geraldine McNenny Jerilyn Medina Felipe Meza Danny Miranda Jr. Israel Mondaca Theary Monh Kimo Morris Megan Moscol April Neal Matthew O'Carroll Joshua O'Connor John Onderdonk Matthew Pagano Sid Patel Kristyn Payne Emeri Pechtimaldjian Jonah Platt Lacey Raak Ellen Robinson Greg Rothberg Angela Saavedra Robert Scott Sarah Siedschlag Meaghan Smith Emma Sorrell Josh Spence Caitlin Steele Donald Strauss Elissa Thomas Laura Thompson Terri Thompson Nathan Torres Kyriakos Toyias Madeleine Turner Nicholas Turton Constance Ulasewicz Willem van der Pol Tamara Wallace Katherine Walsh Dean Weitz Christine Whitcraft Michael Wielock Carla Williams Nat Wilson Tiffany Yen Katie Zeller Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 129

132 Create measurably better environments with Aircuity s Airside Efficiency Program Aircuity is typically the most significant energy conservation program on a college campus; reducing energy consumption, lowering GHG emissions, while maintaining a safe, comfortable and productive learning environment. Aircuity can be easily implemented in a variety of buildings across campus providing low risk, high return projects. Contact us to learn more about Aircuity s solutions: Chuck Spiker: Strategic Accounts Manager cspiker@aircuity.com Ph: For more information on Aircuity s Airside Efficiency Program please visit: Novel approaches for a better result. That s the Haley & Aldrich way. Haley & Aldrich helps our higher education clients envision new ways to achieve their sustainability goals through our holistic approach and by building collaboration among stakeholders for enduring results. For more information, contact: Ben Chandler Sustainability Leader, Principal bchandler@haleyaldrich.com (619) haleyaldrich.com Intelligent, integrated solutions that improve campus safety, comfort and efficiency California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

133 LOW-RESIDENCY MASTER OF ARTS IN URBAN SUSTAINABILITY PREPARE YOURSELF FOR A CAREER IN THE GROWING FIELD OF URBAN SUSTAINABILITY. Training the next generation of urban problem-solvers to meet the world s dual challenges of climate change and inequality. If you dream about changing the system, our program offers an educational home of likeminded students, faculty, and community partners who work and learn together in a hybrid, hands-on, cutting edge program Corporate Pointe, Culver City, CA admissions.aula@antioch.edu /AntiochUniversityLA Intensive Residencies Hands-On Fieldwork Hybrid Learning Attend a one-on-one info session with the program chair. Antiochla.edu/usma REAL WORLD. REAL LEARNING. REAL IMPACT. Living Laboratory: Turning Ideas Into Action 131

134 We re proud to partner with California colleges and universities. And the sun. As a leading global provider of solar energy with more than 30 years of experience, SunPower delivers a comprehensive portfolio of renewable energy solutions, along with top-notch customer by our booth to learn how SunPower is helping California colleges and universities achieve their goals with some of the most powerful solar technology available under the sun. sunpower.com 2016 SunPower Corporation. All Rights Reserved. SUNPOWER and the SUNPOWER logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of SunPower Corporation in the U.S. and other countries as well.

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