Sustainability and the

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UCEA Workforce development forum The Importance
of Workforce development in advancing
sustainability
Sustainability and the University of South
Florida
Sharon Hanna-West, J.D. Exide Distinguished
Lecturer of Ethics and Sustainability January
7th, 2009
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Sustainability at USF

• Historically very fragmented-
• Silos Colleges, Departments, Students and
  Centers
• For Example College of Business Administration
• MBA Building Sustainable Enterprise Track
• Business Sustainability Symposia
• USF Sustainability Partners was an attempt to
  foster cross discipline communication and
  collaboration on sustainability and demonstrate a
  level of commitment to the administration

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USF College of Business Administration

• MBA Program
• Building Sustainable Enterprise Track
• ECP 6305 Economics of Sustainable Enterprise
• GEB 6930 Environmental Law Issues in
  Sustainable Enterprise
• GEB 6930 Societal Law Issues in Sustainable
  Enterprise
• MAR 6936 Marketing Management for a Sustainable
  Future
• MAN 6930 Designing Sustainable Enterprise
• LEAN Management Course

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COBA Sustainability Symposium

• 2006
• Building Sustainable
• Enterprise
• Ray Anderson, Chairman
• Interface, Inc.

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COBA Sustainability Symposium

• 2007
• Applied Sustainability
• Dave Gustashaw
• Sr. V.P. of Engineering
• Interface, Inc.
• Breakout Sessions
• Community Engagement
• Curriculum Development
• University Participation
• College of Engineering
• College of Architecture

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COBA MBA Action Research Projects

• Individual Projects
• Corporate Sustainability Analysis
• Group Projects
• Industry Sustainability Analysis
• Class Projects
• Sustainability Analysis of USF

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Challenges at the End of 2007

• USF Sustainability Partners plan a large scale
  expo
• Funding
• Personnelall work is voluntary
• Reacting to the Climate Commitment
• Focusing for the future

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Student Action Builds

• Emerging Green Builders
• Student Environmental Association
• Engineers Without Borders
• Engineers for a Sustainable Future
• Individual actions of student government leaders

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Action Research Expands

• Academic Pursuits

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USF Going Green Tampa Bay ExpoApril 12, 2008

• Partnered with Hillsborough City/County Planning
  Commission
• Coordinated events with Tampa Urban Charrette
• Preceded by Sustain-A-Bull campus week of
  activities

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USF President Genshaft Signs the ACUPCC
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What is it?

• The American College University Presidents
  Climate Commitment is a high-visibility effort to
  address global warming by garnering institutional
  commitments to neutralize greenhouse gas
  emissions, and to accelerate the research and
  educational efforts of higher education to equip
  society to re-stabilize the earths climate.
• -from presidentsclimatecommitment.org

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Why commit?

• The Commitment recognizes the unique
  responsibility that institutions of higher
  education have as role models for their
  communities and in training the people who will
  develop the social, economic and technological
  solutions to reverse global warming.
• -from presidentsclimatecommitment.org

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Benefits

• Cost Savings
• Community Relations
• Educational Value -Matches curricular and
  research interests of several departments and
  colleges

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How?

• Completing an emissions inventory
• Setting a target date and interim milestones for
  becoming climate neutral.
• -from presidentsclimatecommitment.org

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How? cont.

• USF is already in compliance with ACUPCCs
  transportation alternatives requirements
• USF is close to compliance on
• Energy efficient equipment purchasing
• Campus recycling initiatives

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To Date 605 Signatories
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The USF Sustainability Initiative Takes Form

• Provost Wilcox appoints Dr. Linda Whiteford as
  Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and
  Strategic Initiatives
• Dr. Whiteford appoints Dr. Robert Brinkman and
  Dr. Sharon Hanna-West as Co-Chairs of the USF
  Sustainability Initiative
• 14 Subcommittees created and chairs and members
  recruited

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Subcommittee Charge 3 Steps

• Assessment
• Improvement
• Vision
• Key impacts
• Summarize Opportunities
• Sustainability Plan

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USF Today

• Greenhouse Gas Inventory
• Planning began on USFs first LEED buildingthe
  new Patel Center Building

• COBA MSM Program revision
• College of Sustainability in discussion

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• USF to co-host a Town Hall
  Meeting with
  The Climate Group
• USF will host the Campus and Community
  Sustainability Conference with Sustainable
  Florida October 2009 at the USF Marshall
  Center