California Student Sustainability Coalition

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CaliforniaStudentSustainabilityCoalition
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Mission

• To promote student involvement with UC faculty,
  staff and administration in collaboration with
  the UC Office of the President and the UC Board
  of Regents, to implement environmentally sound
  practices in the UC system. To unite and empower
  students throughout the state with the common
  goal of assuring a sustainable future for
  California and the world.

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Brief History

• 2002 Green Peace, UC Go Solar campaign evolved
  into a UC system-wide green building and
  renewable energy policy initiative.
• 2003 Green building and and renewable energy
  mandate was accepted by the UC Board of Regents.
• USGBC LEED certification or equivalent
• 10 renewable grid purchase by 2004,
• 20 renewable grid purchase by 2017 and 10MW
  energy produced on on site

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Current UC system-wide Campaigns

• Collaborating with the UCOP and campus
  administrators to implement the green building
  and renewable energy policy in full.
• ESLP (Education for Sustainable Living Program)
• Move UC
• Green Procurement
• UC Foods

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Statewide Network Composition and Function

• Network structure
• Main communication group
• Campus campaign representatives
• Action research teams students, staff, faculty,
  admin, community
• UCOP paid sustainability experts CSSC alumni
• Communication dissemination of information and
  sharing of ideas
• Quarterly statewide convergences
• Campaign mini-convergences
• Biweekly conference calls
• Email groups and list serves.
• Individual communications and meetings Shared
  interests manifesting in campaign form through
  environmental organizations at UC campuses

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ESLPEducation for Sustainable Living Program

• ESLP is the educational, research, and outreach
  component of CSSC.
• System-wide panel speaker series and statewide
  retreat
• Presents systematic life challenges of the 21st
  C. as they truly are interconnected and
  interdependent.
• Action Research Teams (ART)
• Partner UC students, staff, faculty,
  administration, and community members in action
  research projects.
• Accreditation/compensation, accountability, and
  legitimacy
• Optimal leverage of resources.
• Students develop transferable organizational,
  professional, and leadership skills.

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Green Building

• 1999 USGBC LEED established
• 2003 UC System wide LEED mandate
• UCSB SEED Silver
• Arnolds executive order mandates all state
  funded buildings in CA to be built LEED Silver
• UCSB Action Research Team LEED certifying
  students
• Chancellors advisory Committees at UC Berkeley,
  SB, SC, Irvine, SD Davis in the works

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Move UC

• The Move UC Resolution "Asks that the University
  of California, Board of Regents pass a
  comprehensive sustainable transportation policy
  that shall include, but not be limited to the
  following provisions
• That the University of California reduce the
  total fossil fuel consumption of its fleets by
  50 in the next ten years. And that the
  University work towards the goal of achieving a
  climate neutral (zero fossil fuel consumption)
  fleet by 2030.
• That the University of California reduce the
  number of staff, faculty and students commuting
  in single occupancy vehicles by 25 in the next
  ten years by supporting and promoting alternative
  transportation such as bicycling, walking,
  carpooling and public transportation. And that
  the University work towards a 50 reduction in
  single occupancy commuting by 2025.

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Conclusions

• CSSC bridges academia and activism, partnering UC
  students, staff, faculty, and administration to
  leverage sustainable principles and policies on
  UCOP and UC Regents.
• CSSC is the most established and proven
  ecological student organization in California.
• CSSC is evolving exponentially, comprehensively,
  and deeply within and throughout University of
  California communities.
• CSSC can serve as an organizational,
  institutional, and political conduit to the ideas
  and inspirations synergized at this summit.

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