AWA2 by https://padlet.com/lizzybellon/k5a13hau4qaf Sustainability en-us 2019-02-07 20:40:22 UTC 2019-02-12 08:33:22 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Xmastree.png USC 2020 Plan lizzybellon https://padlet.com/lizzybellon/k5a13hau4qaf/wish/328975949 "This plan guides USC to a university-wide foundation of environmentally conscious development and is a significant step forward on the journey towards a more sustainable future. The opportunities and successes that stem from this plan will benefit future, long-term sustainability plans" (6)]]> 2019-02-07 20:41:19 UTC https://padlet.com/lizzybellon/k5a13hau4qaf/wish/328975949 USC Ignoring Sustainability lizzybellon https://padlet.com/lizzybellon/k5a13hau4qaf/wish/328976992 USC cares more about aesthetics than sustainability. They wouldn’t put solar panels in the village, even though that would have saved a lot of energy. They also built a target in the village, which is not sustainable. 
There are also a lot of parking lots on campus, which encourage people to drive to school.

From the 2020 Plan:
"Goal 1: Reduce the number of single occupancy vehicles (SOVS) traveling to and from the USC campuses" (14).]]> 2019-02-07 20:43:48 UTC https://padlet.com/lizzybellon/k5a13hau4qaf/wish/328976992 Small USC Efforts lizzybellon https://padlet.com/lizzybellon/k5a13hau4qaf/wish/328977223 USC has made some small efforts to be sustainable, ones that do not seem very effective. There are stickers in the mirrors in bathrooms to remind students to save water. There are also stickers next to the light switches in dorms, reminding students to turn off their lights before they leave their dorms.

2020 Plan:
"Goal 2: Increase awareness of current water conservation practices" (21)
]]> 2019-02-07 20:44:18 UTC https://padlet.com/lizzybellon/k5a13hau4qaf/wish/328977223 Substantive USC Efforts lizzybellon https://padlet.com/lizzybellon/k5a13hau4qaf/wish/328977420 Students must sort their food waste in the dining hall, and USC has many refillable water stations on campus. All of the USC campus vehicles are solar vehicles, and there are also many bike racks on campus. There is also a farmer's market every Wednesday.]]> 2019-02-07 20:44:42 UTC https://padlet.com/lizzybellon/k5a13hau4qaf/wish/328977420 Social Critique lizzybellon https://padlet.com/lizzybellon/k5a13hau4qaf/wish/328977940 "Today, colleges and universities are charging students huge, unsustainable sums — often upward of $50,000 a year — for the privilege of (among other things) living out an elite, politiacally correct fad" - Kersten

USC tuition is one of the largest in the Country, and which is very unsustainable. It is hypocritical of USC to call itself a leader in sustainability when its tuition is so high.

"Eco-centricity is a fatal toxin, but it has an antidote: people. For campus sustainability to escape a death sentence, we must put people first" - Newport]]> 2019-02-07 20:45:41 UTC https://padlet.com/lizzybellon/k5a13hau4qaf/wish/328977940 Eco-Centricity Critiques lizzybellon https://padlet.com/lizzybellon/k5a13hau4qaf/wish/328978104 "In other words, the campus sustainability movement’s mission is to transform our fundamental social, economic and political institutions, and to do so by manipulating, cajoling and browbeating a generation of college students into accepting the movement’s worldview and cultural norms" - Kersten

I don't think there are many places where USC forces students to be sustainable. Maybe by forcing students to sort their food in the dining hall.]]> 2019-02-07 20:45:58 UTC https://padlet.com/lizzybellon/k5a13hau4qaf/wish/328978104 Programs to Increase Awareness of Sustainability lizzybellon https://padlet.com/lizzybellon/k5a13hau4qaf/wish/328988571 2020 Plan:
"Goal 2: Develop degree programs that train students to be practitioners of sustainability studies and science with a curriculum that embodies breadth and depth" (9)

From the 2020 Plan:
"Provide incentives for developing sustainability courses on campus" (9)
"Develop an interdisciplinary sustainability curriculum committee" (9)
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