Meeting With Deputy Director of ESI
Today I had a meeting with Dr. Schaffer, the Deputy Director of Environmental Sustainability Initiative. My meeting would have taken place with Dr. Kennel, who's the head of ESI, but because he's out of town, I met with Dr. Schaffer.
Although the meeting lasted for just about thirty minutes, we went over a lot of topics and hopefully we can use this information to further our campaign goals.
I discovered that ESI is not the people to work with. ESI is structured to focus academically and on research opportunites regarding environmental sustainability. They do not specifically work with the campus. ESI brings together experts in specific fields and studies issues that are on campus and global. For example, ESI is currently working with medical research teams and discussing the health benefits (or side effects) of biodiesel emissions compared to carbon emissions. In short, ESI is an academic/research group that designs sustainability solutions from a campus to global scale.
Dr. Schaffer informed me that it is better to get in contact with John Dilliott, Gary Matthews or the Advisory Committee on Sustainability (ACS).
John Dilliott is focused on conservation issues. He loves to work with students, so he would be someone to keep in touch with in the future. He worked with Kyocera to construct PV solar panels on Powell (the building in Warren witht the neon signs). Completion of this project is to take place by the end of the academic school year, or possibly sooner. This project with Kyocera is actually the first grant by Kyocera to a government institution. It would be good to give positive reinforcement so Kyocera knows that students care.
Gary Matthews is a head member of ACS. He would also be a good person to get in contact with.
ACS (Advisory Committee on Sustainability) does the actual campus operations for sustainability. They basically focus on what the campus' goals should be. Krista Francis is the person to contact regarding ACS.
Students are also actively involved with environmental sustainability. Kylie McGee and Tolar Hovanian are a few of them. They are green campus interns and they are heavily involved with sustainability.
There are plans for Earth Day. And when I say that, I mean an organized coalition of campus groups concerned with sustainability will gather together for Earth Day. This is taken from the first year agenda of ACS:
Dr. Schaffer recommended a few things we should do:
1. Talk to Provost of colleges for sponsorship. Muir college is working with their provost to make some kind of garden?
2. We can propose a Greenbean meeting to discuss our interests of working together for sustainability.
I probably missed a few things, but this is the gist of it. I will also discuss this at tonight's CALPIRG core meeting at 6pm.
Although the meeting lasted for just about thirty minutes, we went over a lot of topics and hopefully we can use this information to further our campaign goals.
I discovered that ESI is not the people to work with. ESI is structured to focus academically and on research opportunites regarding environmental sustainability. They do not specifically work with the campus. ESI brings together experts in specific fields and studies issues that are on campus and global. For example, ESI is currently working with medical research teams and discussing the health benefits (or side effects) of biodiesel emissions compared to carbon emissions. In short, ESI is an academic/research group that designs sustainability solutions from a campus to global scale.
Dr. Schaffer informed me that it is better to get in contact with John Dilliott, Gary Matthews or the Advisory Committee on Sustainability (ACS).
John Dilliott is focused on conservation issues. He loves to work with students, so he would be someone to keep in touch with in the future. He worked with Kyocera to construct PV solar panels on Powell (the building in Warren witht the neon signs). Completion of this project is to take place by the end of the academic school year, or possibly sooner. This project with Kyocera is actually the first grant by Kyocera to a government institution. It would be good to give positive reinforcement so Kyocera knows that students care.
Gary Matthews is a head member of ACS. He would also be a good person to get in contact with.
ACS (Advisory Committee on Sustainability) does the actual campus operations for sustainability. They basically focus on what the campus' goals should be. Krista Francis is the person to contact regarding ACS.
Students are also actively involved with environmental sustainability. Kylie McGee and Tolar Hovanian are a few of them. They are green campus interns and they are heavily involved with sustainability.
There are plans for Earth Day. And when I say that, I mean an organized coalition of campus groups concerned with sustainability will gather together for Earth Day. This is taken from the first year agenda of ACS:
Plan a one-day Sustainability Forum, to be held in spring 2006 around Earth Day. The agenda would include the chancellor's vision and campus goals, research presentations, community outreach, and public education events to learn about the ecosystem of UCSD, as well as recognition of outstanding contributors to campus environment and sustainability initiatives.*Jody Gowen (I know I spelled her name wrong) is the person to get in contact with the Green Campus program.
Dr. Schaffer recommended a few things we should do:
1. Talk to Provost of colleges for sponsorship. Muir college is working with their provost to make some kind of garden?
2. We can propose a Greenbean meeting to discuss our interests of working together for sustainability.
I probably missed a few things, but this is the gist of it. I will also discuss this at tonight's CALPIRG core meeting at 6pm.
posted by Daren at 10:50 PM
1 Comments:
hey, i have actually been contacted by gary mathews from the auxillary and plant services. he asked me to contact him back to arrange a meeting, but i was hoping i could get the info from you, darren, about the campuses current sustainability programs to narrow down what we should discuss with him. you probably wont read this by the time of the meeting considering its less than two hours away, but if you do then yeah, we'll just talk about it more later.
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