Saturday Morning Plenary Presentations

Saturday Morning Goals:

• Generate understanding about the problem of climate change; provoking our emotions and inspiring those in attendance to campus action.
  
• Educate ourselves about the impacts of climate change, so that we can educate others in the future.
  
• Learn what legislation and actions have been attempted but have failed, and the reasons for their shortfalls.
  
• Learn what can be done to moderate climate change, by focusing on lifestyle changes, business practices, and legislation that is focused on climate change prevention.

  Saturday Morning Anticipated Outcomes:
  

• Those in attendance will:
  • Feel motivated to work to moderate the impacts of climate change.
    
  • Feel that they can speak confidently to others about the impacts of climate change and inform others about the changes they can make.
    
  • Know how they and their colleges contribute to the problem of climate change and have ideas about personal actions that can be taken.
    

Saturday Afternoon Campus Sustainability Discussion

Saturday Afternoon Goals: 

• Educate students and faculty about what actions are possible on college campuses.
• Make broad ideas about campus sustainability more specific and seem more attainable.
• Provide for cross-campus comparisons.
• Link colleges who have been involved in specific initiatives with those dedicated to pursuing the same initiatives.
• Create momentum for further action after the summit has ended.
• Help each team generate new ideas about what actions are possible on college campuses and concrete methods for achieving their sustainability goals.

Saturday Afternoon Anticipated Outcomes:

• Communication among schools will be established so that teams have contacts who can help guide them towards their sustainability goals.
• Record the best practices of each school into a dissemination piece that can serve as a reference for future action.
• Provide participants with new ideas for overcoming roadblocks/challenges to initiatives on campus greening.

Saturday Evening Dinner and Keynote Presentation

Saturday Dinner Goals:

• Inform participants of the important role that dining services can play in campus sustainability and energy conservation, and to inspire action at other institutions
• Network and discussion of common interests and best practices
• Facilitate conversation among schools regarding what makes a dining hall environmentally friendly

Saturday Dinner Anticipated Outcomes

• Continued networking
• Informal setting for discussion and developing new ideas surrounding sustainability and greening

Keynote Presentation Goals:

• Motivate, inspire, and energize the group for the activist workshop Sunday morning
• Provide continuity between the morning and afternoon sessions focused on climate change and campus sustainability issues

Sunday Morning Workshops

Sunday Morning Goals: 

• Have each team set concrete and specific goals
• Provide a time for others to respond to the goals that they hear
• Bring together the goals of each team and commit them to working together in the future

Goals of the Student Workshop:

• Inform students how to broadly implement their goals
• Learn the best methods of making other students aware of environmental problems and encouraging them to take preventative action
• Learn how to make significant changes on their campuses while working within the administrative structure

Goals for the Faculty and Staff Workshop:

• Learn how significant greening changes were made at Colby while working within the administrative structure
• Learn about Colby’s Environmental Advisory Group and its activities
• Tour the new construction project seeking LEED certification

Sunday Morning Anticipated Outcomes:

• Each team will:
  • Set goals for the future
  • Develop proposals for their home institutions
  • Gain a concrete idea of how to bring ideas to those who have decision-making power and how to facilitate communications among important parties