Sustainability on Campus: Some of what s happening

Sustainability on Campus: Some of what s happening

Sustainability on Campus: An Outline Auburn s Commitment to Sustainability Office of Sustainability Role Messaging and approach What s happening around campus Our opportunity

Auburn s Commitment to Sustainability: Auburn University Strategic Plan we recognize the importance of sustainability as crucial for this century, and we are integrating this theme into our work

Auburn s Commitment to Sustainability: Auburn University Sustainability Policy Auburn University is committed to integrating sustainability into all aspects of the University. Auburn University s goal is to be acknowledged as a national leader in sustainability teaching, research, outreach, and practice.

Cultivating an ethic and practice of sustainability, and sending Sustainability Practitioners out into the world. Hecker s Blizzog

Sustainability Leave the world better than you found it, take no more than you need, try not to harm life or the environment, make amends if you do. Paul Hawken

Creating the Future One decision at a time In every deliberation we must consider the impact on the seventh generation... even if it requires having skin as thick as the bark of a pine. Great Law of the Iroquois

Creating the Future One decision at a time.

Sustainability: Why does it matter? Ecological: Social: Wellbeing: The 6 th Every 15 seconds 15% of college students Economic: 15,000 /.005% / 6% 120,000,000 / 40% / 0.3%

The major problems in the world are the result of differences between the way nature works and the way people think. Gregory Bateson

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Those do the most good who have the greatest capacity to stand in the tragic gap. Parker Palmer Columbia College

The essential challenge is to transform the isolation and self-interest within our communities into connectedness and caring for the whole. We begin by shifting our attention from the problems of community to the possibility of community. Peter Block

Inspiration is not garnered from the litanies of what may befall us; it resides in humanity's willingness to restore, redress, reform, rebuild, recover, reimagine, and reconsider. Paul Hawken

No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it. We have to learn to see the world anew. Albert Einstein

One of the conditions of enlightenment has always been a willingness to let go of what we thought we knew in order to appreciate truths we had never dreamed of. Karen Armstrong

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Sustainability: What s happening at Auburn University

Energy Reduction 5% reduction in purchased electricity By 2020 From 2010 baseline

Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design

Transportation

Waste Reduction & Recycling 31%

Food Local, organic CSA s Food systems Hunger

Campus Master Plan Fundamentally campus master plans are tools to align the long range facility needs of the constituents of a university campus to a strategic direction and/or common vision.

Campus Master Plan

Campus Landscape Master Plan The intent in the development of the Campus Landscape Master Plan is fourfold: Develop an integrated, Ecologically-based landscape and open space management system that helps Auburn University achieve its goals of environmental sustainability; Develop a campus landscape management system that enhances the living, working, learning, and research environment to foster Auburn University s goals of academic excellence; Develop a landscape management system that unifies the campus, protecting and enhancing the image and character of Auburn University; and Create a companion tool to the Comprehensive Campus Master Plan that will advance the role of the campus landscape.

Climate Action Plan

Sustain-A-Bowl in Residential Community

Prototype Projects

Stream Restoration

Prototype Projects

Sustainable Landscape Forum

Sustainable Office Certification Program S.O.A.R. Sustainable Offices Achieving Recognition Energy Water Purchasing Waste Recycling Transportation Innovation

Sustainability Awards Program

Sustainability in Action

Campus Conversations

Sustainability Training

Sustainability Tracking, Assessment, and Rating System

Categories within STARS Education & Research Co-Curricular Education; Curriculum; Research Operations Buildings; Climate; Dining Services; Energy; Grounds; Purchasing; Transportation; Waste; Water Planning, Administration & Engagement Coordination & Planning; Diversity and Affordability; Human Resources; Investment; Public Engagement Innovation

Long Term Sustainability Goals Auburn will establish specific goals for sustainability based on national metrics. Auburn University Strategic Plan

STARS Assessment Sustainability Goals Current Conditions Desired Future Campus Sustainability Action Plan

Auburn s Commitment to Sustainability: Auburn University Sustainability Policy Auburn University s goal is to be acknowledged as a national leader in sustainability teaching, research, outreach, and practice.

Learning Organizations: where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire and where people are continually learning to see the whole together. Peter Senge

Think Long Term, and Create the Future: Reimagine, Reconsider, Aspire In every deliberation we must consider the impact on the seventh generation... even if it requires having skin as thick as the bark of a pine. Great Law of the Iroquois