President’s Sustainability Advisory Council
February 2, 2021 2-3:30 p.m.
Agenda & Meeting Notes
PCLC Deadlines
- April 2021
- Greenhouse Gas Monitoring
- Regional Resilience Assessment
- April 2022
- Zero Carbon Assessment
- Regional Resilience Action Plan
- Academic Action Plan
Important Links
- Sustainable SSU Website
- PSAC Folder
- PSAC Charter
- PSAC Membership
- PCLC Introduction
- PCLC Time Line
2:00-2:10 Introductions & Announcements - Excitement building, re-engagement, looking forward to the kind of signage and tangible messaging of work being done at SSU.
- Welcome to Abbey Serio, Spring 2021 Intern
- Barbara Frohlech - during meeting with Entrepreneurs and SBE connected to CCE
- Attendees Chair Sergio Canavati, it was a small group of an Entrepreneur collective "SCORE - SSU 2021 Partnership Sergio Canavati De La Torre, Organizer
- Koret Funded Student Art
2:10-2:20 PSAC Membership and Charter
- New Co-Chairs:
- Strategy, Communication & Advancement Working Group: Julia Gonzalez and Kirsten Tellez - new role as co-chairs
- Chair Resilience Working Group: Claudia Luke - new role
- CCE Appointment Change in Charge: delete “appointed by provost” heading under Staff - direction will come making sure charter is up-to-date
2:20-2:30 Campus-wide Update
- Fall 2020 Snapshot - please be sure to review and add/identify updates as this is our source for much of our outreach and communication
- Cabinet Presentation: Feb 19
- Spring Semester All-Employees Email: 2020 Fall Snapshot, Regional Resilience Assessment, Earth Week and Sustainability Pledge Heads Up, listserv - will be providing - please provide insights comments to Claudia in next week.
2:30-3:10 Working Group Highlights
- Zero-Impact Highlights (Dana, Megan)
- Fall Accomplishments
- Microgrid (solar/battery)
- RFP for CAP and GHG assessment
- CSU Procurement Policy
- Recology - March 1 Start Date. Focus on education and increasing diversion rate up to >70% in 2021. See images of new 3-stream recycling containers below.
- Spring Goals
- Complete background and accomplishments sections in Climate Action Plan
- Complete carbon reduction & resiliency goals in Climate Action Plan
- Work with carbon neutral vendor to complete assessment by April 2021
- What are our opportunities? Use this as a touch point. Everyone makes garbage.
- STARS report - pending President’s approval, updated submission is pending
- Fall Accomplishments
- Regional Resilience Highlights (Claudia)
- Fall Accomplishments
- Resilience Action Plan
- Spring Goals
- Resilience Assessment Release and Upload to Second Nature - Claudia to deal with
- Develop Regional Resilience WG membership
- Draft Elements of Community Engaged Resilience Action Plan
- Will distill down the Resilience Action plan so it’s accessible to all
- Outreach to North Bay Forward
- Campus resilience
- Fall Accomplishments
- Academic Highlights (Mark)
- Fall Accomplishments
- Sustainability Minor
- Listserv
- New grants section added
- Spring Goals
- Sustainability Minor: set SLOs, enrollment projection, talk to interdisciplinary consultant, choose eligible classes, finalize capstone course
- Recruit Faculty to Post Research / Instructional Presentations on Website
- Contribute to Earth Week and Sustainability Career Fair - Mark is reviewing past submissions, engaging Faculty
- Fall Accomplishments
- Strategy, Advancement and Communication Highlights (Kirsten, Julia)
- Fall Accomplishments
- Social media and website have been reactivated and we are posting updates on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter
- Hired a student intern
- Spring Goals
- Sustainability Pledge - Travis Wagner teaching course - Feb 14 for project selection if students have selected this as a project - important to have generated by the students - more to be revealed
- Virtual Earth Week with students and staff (Travis Wagner, Damien Wilson) - impact in the waste containers - look for these
- Finalize Sustainable SSU promo mark
- Grants - Projects and Program funding section added
- Fall Accomplishments
3:10-3:30 Cross-Working Group Focus
- Waste Diversion Theme - A major theme for Earth Week and Fall 2021. Goal: >70% diversion rate by the end of the Fall semester
- Possibly focus on purchasing
- On campus how to sort garbage
- Already doing on campus - e waste, composting yard waste
- Post consumer and consumption
- Water bottle filling stations - tracking that data? - Ask Dana
- Intentions for Fall 2021? Roll out on training people how to sort - volunteers training/coaching how to sort
- Roll out of new menus - vegan / vegetarian options
- Earth Week - Video from each PSAC member. SAC Working Group will provide video tips and 10 topics/factoids to pick from
- Video Campaign - doing small things - to support sustainability - short series of videos doing small things that make a difference.
- Pledge - Post “I took the pledge” in your email signature. Recruit others to take pledge. - Everyone on PSAC is willing to take the pledge? Please have on your radar.
- Sustainability packet - informational - mug and a spork to reduce use/dishwashing? (Culinary is handing out sporks and silicone straws)
- Other: Kirsten Tellez - outreach to alumni - new Alumni Chair comes from Sustainability - public meeting anyone can attend.
- Mark Perri & Nadiya Parekh to come up with names of faculty to come to a future meeting to present on what they are teaching as it relates to Sustainability. - Mark to follow up with Claudia regarding
Members Present: Barbara Frohlech, Nancy Keller, Claudia Luke, Nadiya Parekh, Megan Varnadore, Cody Smith, Michael Dominguez, Kirsten Tellez, Julia Gonzalez, Kindra Kautz , Justine Law, Jenifer Barnett, Mark Perri, Merith Weisman, David Chun
Members absent: Calee Spinney, Madison Annala, Katryna Johnson, Adele Santana
Additional Attendees: Alicia Hodenfield, Abbey Serio
Others invited: Tyson Hill, Kevin Fang, Dana Twedell, Kimberly Kaido-Alvarez
Members Absent: