Eastern Connecticut State University
EN-10: Inter-Campus Collaboration

The Connecticut Alliance for Campus Sustainability was formed in 2014 and is co-chaired by Eastern Connecticut State University's Institute for Sustainable Energy and Yale University's Office of Sustainability. The Alliance has statewide outreach via a maintained list serve and organizes annual event, including two annual themed workshops and one annual campus sustainability conference. In June 2015 a themed workshop on Large Scale Solar energy was held, and as a result the group decided they wanted to have a shared area to place materials for others who might want to install solar on their campus to refer to. This can be found using the following URL: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B27RvCa117AFfjRDU1NBUjcxd0hIYzhMX2EtUnZaVUFXdHZpeE5JZEhyYkpxQVZDWHEzU28 http://www1.easternct.edu/sustainenergy/connecticut-alliance-for-campus-sustainability/

Eastern is the co-chair, administrator, an active participant in the CT Alliance for Campus Sustainability. For more information please visit: http://www1.easternct.edu/sustainenergy/connecticut-alliance-for-campus-sustainability/ Eastern is a member of ACUPCC and was one of the first 100 campuses to sign the American College and University Presidents' Climate Commitment in 2007. Each year Eastern completes a GHG update for ACUPCC: http://reporting.secondnature.org/ghg/3470/ Eastern is also a member of AASHE and participates through webinars, AASHE awards judging, review of AASHE call for proposals, and more. SolarizeU is a collaborative partnership with the CT Green Bank, Eastern, UCONN, University of New Haven, Wesleyan, and Yale that is a solar discount program that makes solar affordable to faculty, staff, and families of students. This initiative allows faculty, staff, and families of students to compare online competitive bids from pre-screened installers for solar energy systems for their homes. For more information please visit: http://solarizect.com/solarize-u/

The Connecticut Alliance for Campus Sustainability was formed in 2014 and is co-chaired by Eastern Connecticut State University's Institute for Sustainable Energy and Yale University's Office of Sustainability. The Alliance has statewide outreach via a maintained list serve which includes 300 members, from 24 of the 36 higher education institutions in CT and organizes annual events including two annual themed workshops, and one annual campus sustainability conference. http://www1.easternct.edu/sustainenergy/connecticut-alliance-for-campus-sustainability/

This information was input by ISE staff Laura Miller.