Noncredit Workshop
Sustainability 101
Event ID: P10515
Info: Oct 2 • Fri • 8:00-11:00am • 1 mtg • UHM Krauss 012 (Yukiyoshi Room) • $50 (General), $40 (Student or Government ) • plus The Honu Guide (optional), available at class for $20
With: Shanah Trevenna
This course is for anyone interested in understanding the concepts of sustainability and how they apply to your workplace, community, and home. Explore the triple bottom line, ecological footprint, zero waste and energy, closed loop cycles and self-sufficiency. Discover how these principles play out in case studies that include examples of recycling, local farming, energy efficiency, renewable energy, water use, and more. Begin looking at how you can apply the concepts of sustainability to challenges in your own work place, including how to engage the community; establish a team; set baseline measures and goals; monitor the triple bottom line; and recognize successes in achieving sustainability goals.
Shanah Trevenna, BS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Western Ontario in Canada, graduate student in the University of Hawai‘i Department of Urban and Regional Planning, is the student sustainability coordinator of Sustainable Saunders, an initiative at UH Mānoa to evolve Saunders Hall into a model of sustainability for the campus and beyond. She has coordinated many no-to-low cost projects for water, waste, and energy management, adding up to $146,000 in annual savings.
Trevenna merges a decade of experience working for corporations such as IBM and Philips with a passion for grassroots community empowerment. She was recently honored with the "Making the Elephants Dance" award by UH President David McClain for finding creative ways for the University to be responsive to the community`s needs. She looks forward to being a professor of Sustainability as Hawai‘i becomes a model of sustainability for the world.
See http://sustainablesaunders.hawaii.edu for more about the Sustainable Saunders initiative.