Episode 21: Institutionalizing Sustainability for Real Change - Live at CHESC 2019

(top) Jillian Buckholz, Mackenzie Crigger
(bottom) Nurit Katz, Joseph Fullerton

Guests:

Jillian Buckholz
Director of Sustainability
California State University — East Bay
Mackenzie Crigger
Energy Conservation and Sustainability Manager
Chapman University
Nurit Katz
Chief Sustainability Officer
University of California — Los Angeles
Joseph Fullerton
Energy and Sustainability Manager
San Mateo County Community College District

Host: Dave Karlsgodt
Principal, Fovea, LLC

Production Assistant: Kaia Findlay
Intern, Campus Energy and Sustainability Podcast

In this episode, you'll hear a live recording of a panel discussion at the California Higher Education Sustainability Conference, which took place earlier this summer at the University of California, Santa Barbara.  It was great to be back at this conference again. Regular listens may remember Episode 13 which we recorded at CHESC in 2018. While that episode focused on Aggressive Climate Action,  this year, we focused on the idea of institutionalizing sustainability. We tried to deconstruct some of the tactics, traits and tricks that our panelists, who are all rock star sustainability professionals, use to move beyond running pilot projects and underfunded awareness campaigns to leveraging the full power of the world-class institutions that they work within.

Resources:

• California Higher Education Sustainability Conference: https://chesc.org/

• Sustainability at CSU-East Bay: http://www.csueastbay.edu/sustainability/

• Sustainability at UCLA: https://www.sustain.ucla.edu/

• Sustainability at SMCCCD: https://sites.google.com/my.smccd.edu/smcccdsustainability/home

• Sustainability at Chapman University: https://www.chapman.edu/campus-services/sustainability/index.aspx

• Second Nature Climate Leadership Commitments (mentioned by Jillian Buckholz): https://secondnature.org/signatory-handbook/the-commitments/

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Episode 20: Streamlining Sustainability Reporting with AASHE STARS

Julian Dautremont

Guest: Julian Dautremont
Director of Programs, AASHE

Host: Dave Karlsgodt
Principal, Fovea, LLC

Production Assistant: Sarah Barr

From energy use to purchasing decisions, waste management to community engagement, it’s no secret that sustainability is a notoriously broad and difficult to measure concept.

Creating a comprehensive sustainability rating system was exactly the challenge guest Julian Dautremont and colleagues from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) were tackling when the STARS program was born. STARS is short for the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment, and Rating System and is the most widely used sustainability reporting system among colleges and universities in the United States. (It’s also the primary metric used to determine the Sierra Club’s “Cool Schools” ranking each year, in case you were wondering).

If STARS still stumps you or if you’re simply curious about how a broad concept like sustainability can possibly be quantified and compared, join us this episode as Julian guides us through STARS’ creation, current function and challenges, and goals for the future.

Resources:

• The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE): https://www.aashe.org/

  • Conference and Expo, Workshops: https://www.aashe.org/events-education/

  • Membership: https://www.aashe.org/membership/

• STARS, Sustainability Tracking, Assessment, and Rating System: https://stars.aashe.org/

  • Register: https://stars.aashe.org/participate/

  • Reports: https://stars.aashe.org/reports-data/

  • Help: https://stars.aashe.org/resources-support/

• Sierra Club “Cool Schools”: https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/cool-schools-2018/top-20-coolest-schools-2018

• STARS 2.2 is Live! https://stars.aashe.org/news/stars-2-2-released/?_zs=GHG7a&_zl=nOin1

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Episode 9: The New Grand Strategy

Colonel Mark “Puck” Mykleby, USMC (Ret)

Guest:  Mark "Puck" Mykleby
Co-Founder, Chief Strategy Officer
Long Haul Capital Group

Host: Dave Karlsgodt, Principal, Fovea, LLC

In this November 2017, interview I’ll talk with retired Marine Colonel Mark Mykleby about a book he recently co-authored with Patrick Doherty and Joel Makower, called “The new Grand Strategy, Restoring America’s Prosperity, Security and Sustainability in the 21st Century.”  Our discussion covers a wide range of topics including the history of Grand Strategy in the United States including the lead-up to World War II, the Post-war recovery and the Cold War.  He talks about how our current systems are based on a now obsolete grand strategy and goes on to outline a vision for how America can reinvent itself using sustainability as a core, organizing concept.

Web Resources:

• Learn more about The New Grand Strategy
  Website: https://thenewgrandstrategy.com/

• Email Puck: mykleby@fullcirclestrat.com

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