Green Fund (Kirsten Tellez): A donor green fund has been established for donors interested in giving students experience pursuing sustainability projects
3-year PCLC Budget: Lisa Vollendorf and Joyce Lopes have funded a 3-year budget for sustainability which includes an additional one-year support staff position and $30K operating budget.
PCLC/Sustainability Update
Fall 2019 Sustainability Snapshot (Claudia Luke): a summary of sustainability activities at SSU for Fall 2019 was compiled in table form.
Constituency Reports
Staff Council (Barbara Froelich):
Request for faculty and student input for letter to divest in fossil fuels. Meeting will be scheduled.
TCPA attendance by students and staff
Scoping sustainable shwag and guidelines for low-impact events
Associated Students: no report
Academic Senate (Kevin Fang):
The topic for the faculty retreat was resilience and fire in the classroom. Presentations were recorded.
An overlay subcommittee has been established for developing a sustainability Sealane as a piece of the GE revision
North Bay Forward Lunches - These lunches bring together community members, faculty students, and staff. They focus on communicating in ways that lead to action. At each lunch we hear 10 min presentations from 2-3 people working in sustainability and then engage in a group discussion about how we might enhance or build on their work.
Earth Week is Coming Up: April 20-24. This is a student-coordinated event. Please think about ways to empower students and highlight your efforts.
Please ask your constituency what they want to know about sustainability activities at SSU
Working Group Reports
Strategy, Communication and Advancement - Claudia Luke (Chair), Elif Myers, Kirsten Tellez, Madison Annala, Paul Gullixson
Climate Action Plan: working on identifying a template
Strategic Plan – have developed a vision table that aligns working group efforts with 2025 Strategic Plan Goals
Zero Impact – Craig Dawson (Chair), Jen Barnett, Monica Wahl, Nancy Keller, Calee Spinney
See report at end of these meeting notes
Regional Resilience – Judith Ford (Chair), Barbara Frohlech, Madison Hayes, Megan Varnadore, Merith Weisman, Shay Furze
Working on compiling regional resilience planning information into one document. This document will serve as the basis for further resilience planning effort this Fall
Will be attending Preview Day and Decision Day this year
Nadya is interested in obtaining a list of organizations that are interested in working with her classes on climate change issues and social entrepreneurships
Action: Leadership group will discuss how this kind of resource could be compiled
Academic & Student Life – Mark Perri (Chair), Adele Santana, Justine Law, Kindra Kautz, Nadiya Parekh
The Working Group is working on identifying priority projects
Time Certain (> 3:00 pm)
ECCLPS Dec 11-12 (Daniel Soto): This UC/CSU conference focused on trying to achieve sustainability literacy by helping K-12 teachers with preservice, in-service and curriculum development. Opportunity: Student Climate Campus Partnerships surrounding training and creating lessons for others.
Website (Elif Myers): provided a tour of the developing SSU website
