University of South Florida (Tampa)
PAE-20: Inter-Campus Collaboration on Sustainability

USF Collaborates with a great number of other learning institutions. See below.

Educational Alliance for Sustainability Florida (EASF), Hillsborough Community College, Earth Day event

Collaborations with other learning institutions: USF is a member of Educational Alliance for Sustainability Florida (EASF) which brings together public and private post-secondary institutions across Florida to serve as a hub, sharing best practices, student engagement and building sustainability related curricula. Conference calls held monthly, annual conference held at member universities and colleges. In 2013 two meetings were held one at the Florida International University in Miami and a second one in Nashville, during the AASHE conference. http://sustainableflorida.org/educational-alliance/ USF Participated and presented at the Hillsborough Community College Campus Sustainability day, that brought sustainability student organizations and community resources throughout Tampa Bay together to move towards sustainable ideas into action by achieving common goals. http://www.aashe.org/campus-sustainability-day/activities/campus-sustainability-day-2013-resilient-campuses-and-communiti USF has a collaborative partnership with Learning Gate Community School (LG) School in Lutz Florida. USF and LG will partner for the region’s largest Earth Day event, which will feature over 100 exhibitors, workshops and guest speakers focusing on sustainability and environmental stewardship. http://learninggate.org/ecofest USF’ Daniel Yeh, associate professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, in partnership with LG has built and field test a pilot version of a anaerobic biodigester, which takes food waste and produces renewable energy. This project has had a great impact on students and their learning opportunities. http://www.baynews9.com/content/news/baynews9/news/article.html/content/news/articles/bn9/2013/4/29/school_leftovers_don.html http://www.wfla.com/story/23388468/new-uses-for-non-compostable-food Faculty affiliated with the School of Global Sustainability and the Patel Center for Global Solutions maintain active research and outreach projects with colleagues at other colleges and universities at local, regional, state, national, and international levels. The Office of Sustainability has worked with Sustainable Florida (Collins Center), which organizes university sustainability in the state of Florida, to host the 2009 Campus and Community Sustainability Conference and EXPO. The Director has been invited to provide a keynote address at Florida A&M University, The staff of the Office of Sustainability will be participating in the Sustainability Roundtable held at the University of Florida in 2011.