Pomona College

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Pomona College

• Residential liberal arts college
• Claremont, CA
• 1,500 students
• 500/150 fac-staff
• 140 acres
• 62 buildings
• 1.4 million sq-ft
• 97 residential

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Sustainability Programs

• Well-developed programs
• Landscaping
• Housekeeping
• Transportation
• Recycling
• Developing programs
• Green building
• Energy management
• Natural gas use
• Food
• Purchasing
• Renewables

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History

• 2000-2006 Student efforts/activism
• Support from interested staff/faculty/administrati
  on
• 2007 Administration commitment
• Presidents Advisory Committee on Sustainability
• Presidents Climate Commitment
• Broadened support from staff/faculty/administratio
  n
• 2008 Formal program
• Full-time staff
• Formalized student opportunities for participation

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Sustainability Audit Team
Sustainability Audit Team
Sust. Action Fellowship
Sustainability Assistants
Research Projects
Trustee Task Force

• Six students
• 10 weeks full-time
• On-the-ground auditing
• Lighting
• Plumbing
• Building Envelope
• Landscaping
• Renewables
• Transportation
• Purchasing

CONSULTANTS
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Sustainability Audit Team

• Assistance with collecting large amounts of data
• Large amount of high quality data
• Much, much cheaper
• Leverage consultants expertise beyond their time
  and cost
• Helps with outreach and starting new projects

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Sustainability Action Fellowship
Sustainability Audit Team
Sust. Action Fellowship
Sustainability Assistants
Research Projects
Trustee Task Force

• Events
• Six fellowship conferences
• Weekly team meetings
• Tasks
• Develop strategies
• Assess strategies
• Costs, benefits, feasibility
• 29 students, six teams
• Energy, Water, Waste Recycling, Outreach
  Education, Purchasing, Environmental Justice
• Course credit (or stipend)

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Sustainability Action Fellowship

• Conference 1 (Oct.)
• Presentation of data
• Brainstorming strategies
• Conference 2 (Nov.)
• Performance measures
• Decision-making training
• Report strategies
• Conference 3 (Jan.)
• Cost-benefit training
• Strategy assessment
• Conference 4 (Mar.)
• Determining priorities
• Conference 5 (Apr.)
• Finalizing strategy recommendations

• Initial interviews
• Strategy development

• Strategy analysis
• Categorizing
• Determining next steps
• Further research

• Strategy assessment
• Target development

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Sustainability Action Fellowship

• Students
• Research
• Creative solution-seeking
• Critical analysis of opportunities
• Sustainability Coordinator
• Determine next steps
• Provide information and resources
• Program will continue into plan implementation

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Sustainability Assistants
Sustainability Audit Team
Sust. Action Fellowship
Sustainability Assistants
Research Projects
Trustee Task Force

• 2-4 part-time staff
• Hopefully summer staff as well
• Provides more reliable, stable assistance
• Tasks
• Provide data analysis for possible project
  implementation
• e.g. lighting changes
• e.g. following through with sales calls
• Assist with project development

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Research projects
Sustainability Audit Team
Sust. Action Fellowship
Sustainability Assistants
Research Projects
Trustee Task Force

• Strong history of campus sustainability through
  academic and extracurricular projects
• Maintain list of projects
• Academic project topics
• Extra-curricular project ideas
• Off the rack projects for students to take on
  individually or in groups, for varying intervals
  of time
• Better suited to students schedules and desires
  to be meaningfully involved

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Trustee Task Force
Sustainability Audit Team
Sust. Action Fellowship
Sustainability Assistants
Research Projects
Trustee Task Force

• Temporary Trustee committee to help develop
  targets and to update Environmental Policy
  Statement
• 4 students involved
• Opportunity for students to be involved in the
  Administrations high-level decision-making
  process regarding sustainability

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Non-PCC Student Involvement

• Environmental Affairs Commissioner
• Environmental Quality Committee
• Presidents Advisory Committee on Sustainability
• 4 student members
• Open to all students
• Work-study opportunities
• Green Bikes
• ReCoop
• Sustainability Assistants
• Student organizations and efforts
• Campus Climate Challenge
• Organic Farm
• Biodiesel Initiative
• Presidents Sustainability Fund

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Everyday opportunities

• Website input form
• Email/phone
• Outreach activities
• Tables at the dining halls and campus center
• Classroom visits
• Recent alum as sustainability staff

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Student Involvement Impacts

• Benefits
• Leveraged climate responsibilities to develop
  full sustainability plan
• Educational experiences and future job prospects
• Greater ownership and outreach
• More input in decision-making
• Drawbacks
• Less reliable lengthened timeline
• Often playing catch-up
• Coordination time
• More input in decision-making

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Recruiting involvement

• How to get students involved?
• Provide benefits
• Stipends, prizes, course credit, job experience
• Make it hip and relatable
• Update methods, relate it to their lives
• Respond to their needs and concerns
• How to involve them in a meaningful way?
• Give them information (tell it how it is)
• Give them decision-making power
• Be patient but demanding

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