Student Opportunities

 

 

The CA Higher Education Sustainability Conference offers a unique opportunity for students to network with campus staff, faculty, and administrators throughout educational sessions and meals. A third of our conference attendance is made up of students, ranging from those leading their own sustainability efforts to students just getting started. The one thing that all of our student attendees have in common is that they are committed to taking action to make their campuses more sustainable and to collaborating with campus stakeholders to create the biggest impact possible.

 

Student Activities

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Buildable Visions

 

Buildable Visions: Sustainability Innovations in the Built Environments of Campuses and Their Communities

 

A Design Competition for Students in association with the Ninth Annual California Higher Education Sustainability Conference, Los Angeles Trade Tech, June 20-23, 2010

 

The Ninth Annual California Higher Education Sustainability Conference: Golden State, Green Opportunities, hosted by Los Angeles Trade Tech and the Los Angeles Community College District at Trade Tech June 20th-23rd, will share proven innovations designed for California campuses, introduce student leaders creating change for sustainability, present green business leaders and their products – and will showcase several specific design concepts in specified project categories toward sustainable environments: the Buildable Visions Design Competition seeks to accelerate this campus-to-community-to-society innovation transfer.

All undergraduate and graduate students from the University of California, the California State Universities, and the California Community Colleges are invited to form design teams of three or more individuals, representing three or more disciplines, that will create design concepts and associated program proposals that can be used to accomplish projects in one of the following seven categories -- or in hybrid projects covering two or more categories -- on their campus and/or in the cities and communities surrounding their campuses, in the year 2010 or 2011.

College and university campuses are important parts of the larger communities, towns, and cities in which they are located, both physically and intellectually. There is an enormous largely untapped potential for accelerated environmental sustainability in our institutions of higher education and their students, faculty, and physical structures and built environments. Structures and infrastructure, procedures, practices, and programs for sustainability can be created and developed and then flow outward from our college and university campuses into their urban, suburban, and exurban surroundings and our national and global society.

 

Please note this is a separate awards competition from the Higher Education Energy Efficiency Partnership Best Practice Awards Competition. This competition is organized directly though LACCD and e7 Architecture Studio with sponsorship from Psomas http://www.psomas.com/

 

Learn more at: http://buildable-visions.e7studio.net/

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