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Repeat Gold: Campus Meets Challenge of Revised Sustainability Rating System

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Tabling event outside the Memorial Union offers information on the Aggie Green Pledge, a program designed to encourage sustainable actions on campus.

嘿嘿视频 has earned a renewed gold rating in the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System, or STARS. This time around, the campus measured up to significantly revised criteria, including additional, challenging performance metrics.

TOWN HALL FOR ALL

The Office of Sustainability will host a STARS Town Hall for faculty, staff and students, from 11 a.m. to noon Thursday, July 30, to share more information and celebrate the rating with campus partners who were critical to the reporting effort.


STARS, a program of the , assesses sustainability across environmental, social and economic dimensions in four categories: academic, operations, engagement, and planning and administration. Nearly 450 colleges and universities around the world are active participants in STARS.

嘿嘿视频, in becoming the first UC to be rated under the new criteria, received an overall score of 74.67 percent. The campus scored 15 credits in a bonus category for innovation and leadership, in such categories as nitrogen footprint, fair trade campus, green laboratory program, and diversity and equity recognition.

鈥淪TARS is considered the most comprehensive sustainability assessment tool in higher education,鈥 said Camille Kirk, director of sustainability and campus sustainability planner. 鈥淲e are really pleased to see that 嘿嘿视频 maintains a gold rating, and anticipate using this assessment to drive campus sustainability forward to new achievements.鈥

Kirk announced the STARS rating during the campus鈥檚 second annual Sustainability Summit. See separate story.

What鈥檚 next?

STARS gold seal

Kirk and others are reviewing the STARS report to identify areas for improvement and to help guide other sustainability efforts.

The Office of Sustainability also continues to collaborate with 嘿嘿视频 with an eye toward meeting the , or SDGs, which seek to address global economic, social and environmental challenges including poverty, hunger, climate change and inequalities.

鈥淭he SDGs speak deeply to 嘿嘿视频 values and strengths as a campus, and are relevant locally as well as globally,鈥 said Jolynn Shoemaker, director of global engagements, Global Affairs. 鈥淕lobal Affairs conducted a survey of 嘿嘿视频 faculty that showed our campus is supporting the SDG agenda across all 17 goals, both in the U.S. and in other countries around the world.鈥

鈥楽ustainable future for all鈥

Completing a university STARS report is a massive, complex undertaking. Kelli O鈥橠ay, who joined the Office of Sustainability as its assessment program manager in January, led the project from initial collection of metrics across the Davis campus to evaluation and report development.

Formerly sustainability coordinator for the ASUCD Coffee House, O鈥橠ay wasn鈥檛 new to sustainability reporting when she began her work on STARS, but has since gained a more holistic view and appreciation of the university鈥檚 commitment to sustainable practices, leadership and innovation.

鈥淚 knew a lot about one small part 鈥 the food portion 鈥 but now I鈥檝e had the opportunity to immerse myself in everything from water to planning and administration,鈥 O鈥橠ay said. 鈥淚'm so proud of all that 嘿嘿视频 does and supports to secure a sustainable future for all.鈥

STARS on video

If you missed the STARS summary presented at the Sustainability Summit, you can (starts at 1:13:27).

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Kristin Burns, Finance, Operations and Administration, kburns@ucdavis.edu

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