1. Channeling Student Power for Campus Sustainability Matt Harmin University of Kentucky

2. At -Sustainability Advisory Committee -Student Green Fee -Wildcat Wheels -Recycling -Sustainable Agriculture CSA -Kentucky Proud food -Bluegrass Partnership for a Green City -Eco-Rep Program -Centralized HVAC Management -STARS Pilot -Earthdays in the Bluegrass

3. We shall overcome… Lack of long term strategic sustainability planning No communication focal point for people who would be partners Lack of performance indicators and measures Environment, social justice not prominent on an institutional level, in the social atmosphere No written statement of values, goals

4. Is Sustainability… Buzzword? Purely environmental? Fiscally irresponsible? Idealistic? Is sustainability an outcome?

5. Sustainability is… A process Participatory, inclusive, transparent, socially engaging Continual reassessment of assumptions about what sustainability is An organizing principle Meta-knowledge Guiding motivation for inter-disciplinary initiatives Institutional change has great efficacy, giving campus sustainability its irradiative effect

6. The Paradoxes of Climate Work Can I legitimately do climate change work when I ( insert anything )? Coal fired campus at UK and the PCC Generating opportunities for local offsets How does coal fit into the sustainability picture?

7. Timeline of student involvement *graph from Aaron Kreider, ACTivist Magazine -Mid-terms, finals, and homework slow down campaigning -More action in seasons of good weather -Momentum -There are optimal times for student involvement

8. “This is no longer a fringe topic. It’s no longer a niche topic. This is now a mainstream topic that is being driven across the broad economy. Second, the technology and the service solutions are real. Some may take time to put into place, like coal gasification, sequestration, or hybrid technologies, but they are technologies that can be commercialized over the next 5 or 10 years. Finally, this interest has accelerated — sometimes driven by public policy — things like renewable performance standards. But a lot is driven by businesses that finally said, ‘Let’s get ahead of this theme. Let’s get ahead of the trend. Let’s invest before we have to because we see it coming.” Jeffrey Immelt – chief executive of General Electric eJournal USA

9. Activists and Citizens I want the skills, tactics, goals, and issue expertise usually attributed to activists to become connotations of the word citizen Sustainability as the logical outcome (or organizing principle) of a well functioning democracy

10. Robinson Forest case study in Ecosystem Management and Institutional (in)Consistency Ecosystem Management Stakeholder driven system of accommodation and synergistic outcome generation Taught in NRC 301, not practiced by Robinson Forest steering committee

11. Knowledge Capabilities What do I know? Issues are global, or large scale in context Sustainability as something you talk about What can I do? Issues are dealt with locally, regionally Sustainability as something you do, a process you are involved in Think Globally Act Locally

12. For Students Think about the words activist, citizen, and how to be efficacious Bring student government resources to bear on campus culture, administration Find connections with existing student groups Allow goals for academic pursuits, professional development, and social change to converge as much as possible

13. Student Government Plan a coup Kentuckians for the Commonwealth - Voter Guides bring transparency to elections for student government Coalitions of under represented student groups CU Boulder student government signed onto the PCC

14. For Administration, Staff, Faculty Encourage the rowdiest, most progressive and forward thinking students on your campus to get visionary Empower students to communicate ideas to staff, administrators Know the timeline of student involvement Encourage the confluence of scholarly and professional pursuits, with the campus as the lab for applied learning

15. Learning Outcomes Participation in process of institutional change Project management Collaboration and team building Emboldening commitment Creating opportunities, creating the potential for change toward sustainability

16. Becoming a Sustainability Professional in some capacity How do I do it? Socially transformative enterprises often have to be created The process of finding opportunities to improve performance, planning and carrying out sustainability programs trains the student’s creativity and capacity for action