The SUN meeting next week will be Monday (Oct. 19th) at 5pm. We will be discussing the director positions and working groups for the 2009-2010 school year. Meeting location: 3rd floor student lounge.
Here is a list of possible working group topics and activities. Let's think of this as a place to start our conversation on Monday:
1. EAP Curriculum Advisors
2. Green Building Tour
3. Green Careers Outreach
4. Food Class Participation
5. SUN Poster Session/End-of-year social around sustainable thesis/client projects
6. Critical assessment of trends in sustainability:
o Policy
o Energy
o Transportation
7. Seminar on the classical economics of oil; emphasis on the cost-advantage and why price plus oil infrastructure trump current sustainability options.
8. New policies and technologies that may shift the argument in favor of non-oil options:
o Solar feed-in-tariffs (& funding sources for FITs)
o Chinese ?Golden Sun? as model to emulate
o Where is the Green Revolution? Overlooked companies and programs with good odds for success.
9. Tour of Los Angeles Eco Village (Not a project, but fun).
10. Converting part of the UCLA Campus to native vegitation to reduce water consumption (a project).
11. If the green building class runs again in the spring, it would be nice to offer sun students first crack at getting in. It would likely be competitive among planning students.
12. bike/ped class working group
13. I'd be interested in bringing Larry Santoyo to speak - possibly even organize a workshop with him. He's a very dynamic Permaculture Design teacher. He's also brilliant - and hilarious.
14. Dialog surrounding sustainability. Potential to look at how academics and the press/general public, through contemporary articles and news pieces, are framing the concept.
15. Gated communities publicity campaign?
16. Green landscaping advocacy on campus?
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