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Date

Participants

  • Walt Kanzler

  • Sara McKinstry

  • Peter Sloan

  • Mirle Rabinowitz Bussell

  • Subrata Chakraborty

  • Celia Sanchez-Selaya

  • Haodong Liu (postdoc sitting in for Ping Liu)

  • Ken Hall

  • Gordon McCord

  • Hugh Hagues

Slides and Handouts

Action items

  • Sara, Michelle and Walt will draft answers to GSA questions, then share with AVC RMP Steve Jackson and VC RMP Gary Matthews for final editing and review before sharing.
  • Walt and Michelle as ACS chairs will discuss with AVC Jackson and VC Matthews decarbonization/sustainability as large part of UCSD identity. More active communication and PR across campus.
  • Sara and Michelle will discuss a climate action plan open meeting idea with AVC Jackson and VC Matthews.
  • Gordon and Peter will connect to get UCSD Green New Deal connected to Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
  • Sara invite Keith Pezzoli and Adam Aron to present on Faculty Senate Climate Task Force at winter quarter ACS meeting.

Notes

  • ACS members are encouraged to read UC Bending the Curve report.

  • Reminder of mission of ACS: engaging more people in sustainability, Green teams, communications out to campus, recommendations through VC RMP to Chancellor and Cabinet, info sharing and then taking action.

GREEN NEW DEAL (Peter Sloan, Graduate Student ACS rep)

  • New student movement and other UCSD-affiliated community members. Hoping to collaborate with ACS.

  • Name comes from new federal legislation in the US House that details rapid decarbonization in economy. Part of September 2019 global action week.

  • Connected to GSA Climate Action and Policy committee.

  • UCSD should be a world leader in rapid institutional decarbonization, be we’re not…. yet. Why not? Growing number of faculty and students don’t think the campus leadership is doing this.

  • Meetings on the first Friday of every month. 70 people attended first meeting from 4-6 PM on a Friday afternoon.

  • Slack channel and website where share info and learn: e.g., Peter shared notes from meeting in Oct with Michelle and Sara on UCSD climate action plan update.

  • Asking for:

    • Teach more UCSD students about the climate crisis/climate justice.

      • Presentations to classes. (They are presenting to as many classes as professors will have them.)

      • Departmental workshops.

      • Climate justice Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) requirement.

      • Curricular overhaul.

    • Specify and meet decarbonization goals:

      • See questions in handout. Would like answers in writing and want to have meetings to discuss.

      • More investment, more transparency, more accountability.

      • Required training (all staff, faculty, students).

      • New UC President hiring process input.

      • Want to bring people into the decision-making process to understand decarbonization.

    • Build a UC-wide Green New Deal movement: organizing with climate groups on all UC campuses.

  • Walt and Sara: UC already spending money on decarbonization and advanced of many areas, but need to balance within reason with budgets and ambitions as a campus. Good for Chancellor and CFO to hear how much faculty and students care about decarbonization. Welcome working together to promote similar interests.

  • Gordon: All of this is fantastic. Shows lack of information sharing about sustainability on campus. Most people on campus don’t know we have a climate action plan, what it means, what’s in it, and our sustainability efforts. Need knowledge diffusion: all they see are cranes and construction. What is UCSD’s sustainability plan amidst all this growth? People on campus should be able to hold their phones up to any building and be able to download sustainability plan, link to LEED buildings, etc. Even though info online need to do something more proactive to get info out. Poster on each building: wondering how sustainable we are? Look here. Need to push more to get information in front of people.

  • Gordon: Most people uncomfortable with offsets. Leakage, lack of additionally, etc. Most serious people say that’s not decarbonization. We need to talk about offsets markets.

  • Gordon: With Yale, UCSD is home to the Sustainable Development Solutions Network. We should take advantage of that more. What do we want to do with youth energy around these goals? 115 campuses. Knowledge aggregator to promote policies to meeting the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Each national network doing different things. Put info in front of policymakers to push, but have to decide what want to do. Next meeting in Jan in Yale.

  • Peter: UCSD in particular could own decarbonization as its central indentity and doesn’t. Huge amount of unspecified offsets. Need to show how lowering emissions immediately is part of our identity. Systemwide it’s being measured.

  • Walt: Wendell Brase and UC Irvine’s framing around sustainability as a core value of campus. If that’s one of the goals of this group, Walt as ACS chair supports that. Create a work plan around that: what would it take? Go back to our own areas to move it forward.

  • Subrata: Agrees with all of it but as a scientist believes we should depoliticize the entire thing. Since Green New Deal comes from Democratic Party, take out the word and would get more people on board. We want max people participating, encourage personal behavior and change. When politics comes into picture, gets complicated and people become rigid and can’t make things work. Focus on future generations. He’s on Mike Levin’s nuclear plant task force with people on both sides. Provides technical and scientific info with no bias on nuclear technology. Info to decisionmakers.

  • Ken: echos agreement with everything said. To touch on commuting piece of carbon footprint, go talk to Josh Kavanaugh, UCSD Director of Transportation.

SUSTAINABILITY/CLIMATE CHANGE CURRICULUM (Sara McKinstry, Walt Kanzler)

  • Progress to date:

  • Areas in which we could improve (and get more points under STARS 2.2):

  • Hugh: we are the bottom up and industry as the top down and more companies including sustainability as part of their annual reporting. Corporate can educate and counsel the academics on turning out students who need to know about sustainability. UCSD focused on computers, big pharma, biotech. Need to see sustainability as a core academic value.

Deans usually challenge around budget/finances and student time to completion. How can we express that urgency.

Invite Keith to Feb meeting to present on how ACS can support him.

Tack on curriculum discussion to climate action plan forum. Mirle: bring in 40-50 people to get support and movement.

BUILDING POLICY & GUIDELINES

· Add in slides

ZERO WASTE

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