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March 2010: April 2010:
June 2010: 
Campus Trees: A Model for Calculating and Communicating Carbon Sequestration
CHarting Emissions from Food Services Postponed. Watch for a new date here. Businesses, colleges and universities, hospitals, and municipal complexes have begun to evaluate their dining services as part of their institutional commitment to sustainability. But how do you measure the impact of dining services? What’s more important – trayless dining or low-carbon food purchasing? Organic produce or local produce? The environmental trade-offs are complex and to date, there has been no way that institutional food purchasers can quantify the impact of their decisions. But with the help of Yale University, ARAMARK, and a number of other college and university partners, CA-CP is launching the CHEFS (Charting Emissions from Food Services) calculator. Tune-in to learn more about this exciting tool and quantifying sustainable dining choices.
Reducing Single Occupancy Vehicles Reducing transportation related emissions remains one of the thorniest problems in carbon management, and one shared by institutions ranging from college to hospital to business. As we work to move to a culture of greater sustainability, how can we address the environmental impact of commuting via single-occupancy vehicles (SOVs)? Hear about some of the newest strategies for reducing SOVs, including lower-cost and more engaging alternatives to those ever present, ever inconclusive commuter surveys. Solutions discussed will be applicable to commuter populations of varied shapes and sizes. Our featured speakers include Susan Sloan-Rossiter, Mike Scott, and Brent Drewry. Ms. Sloan-Rossiter, LEED AP, is a principal of Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc. (VHB). VHB provides integrated transportation, land development, and environmental services to public, private and institutional clients. Ms. Sloan-Rossiter has extensive experience in the planning, permitting and technical transportation analysis of large complex multi-modal mixed-use development projects. Mr. Scott and Mr. Drewry represent two of the most interesting web-based applications for commuters to date – Moblu and PickUpPal. Mr. Scott is the co-founder of Moblu Inc., a Vancouver-based web company that helps groups track the environmental of their commuting and other transportation choices. Mr. Drewry is the Business Development Director at PickUpPal, a ride-sharing service that interfaces with the most popular social networking tools. Mr. Drewry and Mr. Scott will discuss how employers and campuses have employed these web applications for reduced SOV use and better commuter data.
Culture Shift - A Training in Global Warming Communications and Behavior Change Join us for a webinar on the principles and practices of climate communications and behavior change led by Cara Pike. Framing and delivering communications in a manner that motivates individuals to examine and reshape their own thinking and behavior about the climate is essential. To create successful outreach programs, climate leaders and practitioners must understand the barriers to public engagement in global warming, the stages of behavior change people go through in response to the issue, and the social values that shape their interest and willingness to act. This webinar will draw from some of the largest data sets on public engagement and global warming, including Climate Crossroads: A Research Based Framing Guide and Re: Green - The Ecological Roadmap to provide tips on how to tailor climate outreach and behavior change strategies to particular segments of the public with a focus on engaging young Americans. Cara Pike is the Director of the Social Capital Project, an effort of the Climate Leadership Initiative at the University of Oregon. Cara is a leading social marketer and has done extensive research and public engagement campaign work on climate and sustainability issues.
Sustaining Sustainability with Alumni Support Our college and university sustainability strategies reach out to students, faculty, and staff – but rarely to Alumni. Yet when tapped, alumni are powerful supporters of on-campus carbon reduction efforts and strong allies for students working with reticent administrators. This webinar will feature the story of three schools that have successfully included alumni in on-campus sustainability efforts. Dano Weisbord, Environmental Sustainability Director at Smith College, will describe how sustainability has been woven into the fabric of reunion and has made his lecture to returning alums one of the most popular during reunion weekend. Environmental media consultant and Dickinson College alum Thom Wallace will tell story of alumni involvement from a different perspective: concerned that the sustainability commitment at Dickinson College was waning, Wallace and other alums created a group (Alumni for a Sustainable Dickinson College) to lobby the administration and support the on-going environmental activism of the student body. Due in no small part to Alumni for a Sustainable Dickinson’s work, Dickinson is now considered one of the greenest campuses in the country. Finally, Rob Constantine, Vice President for College Advancement at Unity College, will describe how Unity’s administration has used the campus’s sustainability story for increased alumni giving and foundation support.
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Campus Trees: A Model for Calculating and Communicating Carbon Sequestration Emissions reduction policies generally are based on reducing emissions through efficiency measures, replacing emissions with clean alternatives, and avoiding emissions through planning and conservation. This webinar will explore how, in addition to all of these important measures, landowners can calculate and report the carbon sequestration of campus trees in a manner that facilitates responsible carbon management policies. Presenters will share a combination of freely available tools can aid in this process, as well as any consensus “best-practices” that emerge from a stakeholder workshop focused on this topic at the “Smart and Sustainable Campuses” conference in Maryland in March 2010. Join the discussion on how we can more transparently and effectively account for—and communicate—the value of our campus trees and forests.
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