Following a successful pre-conference design and style last year, the From Field to Fork pre-conference will bring together food service managers, chefs, campus administrators, faculty researchers, professionals, and students. We will explore cutting edge procurement, green business practices, and educational models. In distributive break-outs and together we will identify barriers and share challenges, establish innovative solutions and best practices, and create a vision of how campus food systems will be transformed over the next twenty-five years.
Time: 8:30 am to 3pm (Thursday)
Cost: $30 includes breakfast and lunch
Number of participants: 175 (max)
Interested in the "Field to Fork" pre-conference only? Registration and exhibitor forms available at the CASFS web site.
This all-day workshop provides a setting in which participants learn to use handheld instruments, conduct a building performance case study through structured methodology, develop hypothesis and investigation strategy formulation, are allowed behind-the-scenes building investigations, and make team presentations of study results to the workshop participants. Participants gain understanding of objective and subjective procedures for performing post-occupancy evaluations of building performance.
Participants are encouraged to bring laptop computers, digital cameras, and lunch money.
Time: 9:00 am to 4:00 pm (Thursday)
Cost: $50 non-student/$15 students
Equipment (tools): provided
Lunch: no-host working lunch on campus
Number of participants: 25 (max); 8 (min)
This half-day “train the trainer” program provides a step-by-step guide developed from the best tools and resources for conducting a successful LEED™ Charrette. Learn to implement the collaborative approach necessary to create realistic and achievable design ideas that work in a Charrette session. Facilitation strategies, brainstorming, and simulation activities reinforce the learning experience.
Download LEED Workshops flyer here.
Time: 8:00 am to 12:00 pm (Thursday)
To Register for this workshop visit the USGBC web site.
Registration through the USGBC rather than through the main conference.
This full-day program is designed for those who have a basic knowledge of LEED™ and want to delve deeper into the technical requirements of the rating, the building certification process and other implementation strategies. Using case studies and project profiles and interactive exercises, this is the most comprehensive review of LEED™ for New Construction v2.2 available. Although it will provide an overview of the building certification process, the course does not guarantee a passing score on the LEED™ Professional Accreditation Exam.
Download LEED Workshops flyer here.
Time: 8:00 am to 5:00 pm (Thursday)
To Register for this workshop visit the USGBC web site.
Registration is made through the USGBC rather than the main conference.
The Student Convergence will be an opportunity for students from all campuses to come together, meet each other, share best practices, and learn about opportunities for state-wide organizing. There will be space set aside during the day for University of California (UC), California State University (CSU), and California Community College (CCC) campuses to split into break-out groups with students from their own systems as well as some opportunities to bring all three groups together.
Industry-Student Sustainable Solutions Event - 5-7pm (Saturday)
Number of participants: 100
Be the Change - 9:00 am to 3:00 pm (Sunday)
Number of participants: 200-300
Cost: Included in conference registration fee (pre-registration required)
Learn about infusing sustainability into curriculum from Jim Pushnik, Professor, CSU Chico. He will go over teaching tools and resources for modifying courses from disciplines across the campus. This presentation is for professors of engineering, business and economics, biology, theater arts, computer science, english and more.
Participants are encouraged to bring laptop computers, digital cameras, and lunch money.
Time: 9:00 am to 12:00 pm (Sunday)
Cost: $50 non-student/$15 students
Number of participants: 50 (max); 25 (min)
BeyondFire is the concept of a built environment that produces and manages its own clean energy in a network of Sustainable Utility Nodes (SUN Buildings). BeyondFire represents becoming harvesters of energy, thus moving beyond the contemporary combustion based hunter-gatherer paradigm. The 2008 BeyondFire™ workshop will share information about the policies, economics, and technologies that show zero-net energy buildings are both economically viable and crucial to humanities future. Furthermore, we will discuss issues of certification and education.
Our co-sponsors, PermaCity, Green Inq, and Lumenergi, are three cutting edge companies that have created services and technologies to move our world BeyondFire.
Participants are encouraged to bring laptop computers, digital cameras, and lunch money.
Time: 9:00 am to 4:00 pm (Sunday)
Cost: Included in conference registration (pre-registration required)
Lunch: no-host working lunch on campus
Number of participants: 60 (max)
The Chlorine Free Products Association will be hosting an innovative discussion to reveal sources of reliable information used by campuses in setting standards, parameters and developing partners used in Greening their Supply Chain.
Topics will include; Standards on recycling, energy, water use, reducing carbon gases, and environmentally preferred products. Panel members and attendees as well will be asked to participate in three activities:
- Where do you get reliable information on Greening the Supply Chain when setting guidelines?
- What certifications/logos are recognizable?
Time: 8:00 am to 12:00 pm (Sunday)
Cost: $65
Number of participants: 60 (max)
For more information download this CFPA Sustainability Roundtable PDF.
This program is for building owners, facility managers and design teams seeking to advance existing buildings to a sustainable level of operation. Topics covered include facilities upgrades, reducing building operating costs, solving building operation problems, improving indoor environment, and supporting higher productivity of building occupants. This course details the LEED™ for Existing Buildings v2.0 rating system, with highlights of the new LEED™ for Existing Buildings: Operations & Maintenance rating system included. Although it will provide an overview of the building certification process, the course does not guarantee a passing score on the LEED™ Professional Accreditation Exam. Please see the LEED™ Accredited Professional Candidate Handbook for details on the exam and sample questions.
Download LEED Workshops flyer here.
Time: 8:00 am to 5:00 pm (Sunday)
To Register for this workshop visit the USGBC web site.
Registration is made through the USGBC rather than the main conference.
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