Alliance Annual Green Campus Summit 2009

At the 2009 Green Campus Energy Efficiency Summit, held this year at UC Irvine from January 24 – 26, nearly 60 Green Campus Interns joined over 40 Green Campus stakeholders for three days of energy efficiency activities and discussions.

During the summit interns learned about energy efficiency opportunities both on campus and in the working world. There was a full day of training, including three blocks of concurrent sessions, orientations for new and intermediate interns, audit trainings, peer exchanges and a metrics tutorial. Interns also learned about energy efficiency careers from a panel that included Alliance President Kateri Callahan, Trane Vice President Jim Pape, TAS Director Peter Armstrong, Food Service Technology Center Energy Analyst (and Green Campus alumna) Lauren Mills, and Southern California representatives Carlos Hernandez and Juliet Murphy. In addition, California Public Utilities Commissioner Timothy Alan Simon addressed a group about his workforce education and training initiatives in California.

Interns and stakeholders alike shared ideas at the World Café brainstorming event, discussing how technical and policy-oriented developments in energy efficiency pertain to their institutions and to Green Campus projects. Interns also had a look at other energy efficiency projects underway at UC Irvine, UC Santa Cruz, Humboldt State, and Cal Poly SLO during the Green Campus Showcase.

Green Campus converges twice a year and aims to facilitate ongoing networking and collaborations following this event and before the 2009 UC/CSU/CCC Sustainability Conference at UC Santa Barbara.