The Sustainability Council campus organized a listening session on April 11, in which the group delivered an update for the campus community and heard feedback from the spectators.
Sustainability project tactualizations
The Council provided updates of the following:
Vice -Chancellor for Sustainability
Andrew Mayock joined the listening session via Zoom to imagine, where he recognized that this is a challenging time in the world of sustainability and how it is of crucial importance for us to catalyze changes.
Project tactualizations Flash round
A number of stakeholders delivered short updates to sustainability projects:
- Pour right: Cu Boulder negotiates with providers and works to completely eliminate individual use plastics.
- Operations:
- 220,000 US dollars grants that have a window upgrades
- Two grants to investigate geothermal feasibility
- Efficiency projects continue, further buildings in the planning
- 3.4 million US dollars in state/state grants to expand the electrician fleet
- Break the ground on the east campus solar array
- Break on a virtual net brass solar array
- Temperature control controls in selected buildings
- Next iteration of the design for the decarbonization plan ongoing
- The recognition of changes in behavior can implement the campus in order to achieve the CAP goals in terms of scope 3 emissions
- Common curriculum: The faculty passed a new series of learning results in the basic course that focused on the topic of sustainable future. Implementation is in progress.
- Campus Sustainability Summit: The shop window of students comprised 40 projects with cash prizes; Teached class class presentation for students; Chancellor Justin Schwartz organized a panel for leadership.
- Exactly here, right now: Cu Boulder is together with the University of Oxford together with the University of Oxford on June 5 during a 24-hour global live stream.
- Green chemistry commitment: The environmental authority collects support with support in order to make CU Boulder to be signed for an international commitment to green chemistry.
- Zero waste and plastic: The Sustainability Council has passed a zero waste policy that supports great initiatives that focus on plastic and food waste with disposable tables.
- Transport:
- The working group for transport companies develops a plan for transport needs management, which comes from a proposal for the sustainability council to reduce the use of a single occupancy vehicle.
- The Buff bus fleet is added to two articulated electrical buses. This is part of the grants listed above during the Flash round of 3.4 million dollars.
- In May 2025, six ports will be expanded in two places on the main campus (two in Lot 310 and four in Lot 204). This summer, two ports are added to the Smiley Court.
- A project began to add DC Fast Lading in Lot 308 (via Regent Drive from the C4C). Timing probably depends on the hardware delivery plans in 2026.
- A “commuter confectioner” is in the works that best implement the campus voters around the campus.
Retirement of council members in retirement
Heidi Vangenderen and Virginia Schultz, graduate Alex Chamberlin and Associate Director Marianne Martin, were recognized with gifts and a tree planting.
Public commentary
The Council received comments on the following topics:
- The guarantee of ensuring furniture after moving out is treated sustainably
- A change in the curriculum to focus more on sustainability, especially at the College of Engineering
- Including information about the common curriculum during the new faculty orientation
- Need for cooperation between programs that may need the same resources when developing a common curriculum
- The guarantee of the events associated with university are zero waste