2008-11-12: Sustainability in Higher Ed Conf.

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(What conference?? Link to the Cong, agenda??, RBH)

Key take home points to be developed later:

• Carbon footprint analysis:
  • Another class at Macalester College as did class project with ghg inventory
  • Electricity carbon factor (carbon/kw-hr) is best to use the e-grid # which incorporates a region and better incorporates how power is actually delivered than to use just the state #. We should go back to this since we just changed a #.
  • New version of clean air-cool planet has built in projections based on changes in activities - should look into
  • Issues with transportation - Survey suggested, maybe collab with a research methods/statistics class. American Univ. surveyed in the parking lot to get an idea of who the daily pass commuters were - mostly students, mostly less than 5 miles.
  • tie the project to anthropology/sociology

• Sustainability Minor - interdisciplinary sustainability curriculum
  • Univ. Of Minnesota brought faculty across disciplines together and created a sustainability minor which is two team taught required classes and electives from the classes that these profs teach.
  • They funded summer faculty months of a few professors to develop the curriculum
  • They met and had common readings in order to get on the same page/same language etc.
  • This program has been successful

• Barbara Widhalm