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Alachua County ECSC Partnership Opportunities for Reducing our County’s Energy Footprint

Dedee DeLongpre-Johnston, MBADirector, Office of Sustainability

Your partnership request

County-wide public engagement strategy What should it include? Kickoff “Energy summit”

UF experience in reducing energy bills Successes and obstacles

Easy access to conservation information?

Taken advantage of utility rebates?

How can ECSC help?

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Guiding Principles www.sustainable.ufl.edu

Teaching and Research

Service, Outreach, and Extension

Energy Conservation and Climate Change

Land and Resource Management

Agriculture

Built Environment

Waste Reduction

Procurement

Investment

Transportation

Health

Equity

Cultural Climate

Stewardship

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The Triangle of Actors

Society

Gov

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Environment Economy

Citizens

Public engagement strategy

County-wide public engagement strategyWhat should it include?Kickoff “Energy summit”

Importance of CBSM Attitudes, Barriers, Benefits Which behaviors? Summit – strategy or start of CBSM process

Collaborative Visioning Process5

Experience Reducing EnergySuccesses

Efficiency in new construction Minimum LEED Silver 2 Gold; 3 Certified; 6 submitted for certification;

7 Registered

Light bulbs change outs

Optimizing systems

Window replacements

Residential campaigns http://www.sustainable.ufl.edu/housing_energyuse

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Opportunities: Carbon Action PlanCarbon InventoryConservation

Metering, new construction, preventative maintenance, major systems

Conservation Campaigns: Res Halls, Classrooms, Labs, Commuters, Air Travel

Alternative EnergyOffsetsRegulatory ArenaFinancing

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Challenges to Getting it Right

So many buildings – and they’re so old

Decentralized structure Makes community goal-setting difficult

Different audiences Different values, different perceived barriers and

benefits Lack of financial accountability

Silver Bullet mindsets Problem switching vs problem solving

Energy conservation information

Do we have access?Loads!!DOE, GRU, PREC, anyone with a DSM planBack to CBSM –

information campaigns only work if lack of information is the barrier to the behavior change

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Utility Rebates

Are we taking advantage of them?Suggested stakeholder

John Lawson – UF PPD Energy Office

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Our Partnership

How can ECSC help?Offset Partnerships

Barter economy developing for win-win-wins

Research Partnerships FISE and FISE Incubator

Lead by example County leadership in CBSM execution

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Student Leadership Student Representation

Joint Sustainability Committee Student Government Environmental Affairs Cabinet position Student Ad Hoc Committee on Sustainability

Student Clubs Gators for a Sustainable Campus (GSC) The Student Chapter of the Wildlife Society U.S. Green Building Council, UF Student Chapter Environmental Horticulture Club Bioenergy and Sustainable Technology Society (BESTS) American Solar Energy Society at UF Human Rights Awareness on Campus UF Environment, Science, and Policy Society (ESPS) Students Making Trade Fair Engineers Without Borders Change the World: Student Social Entrepreneurs at UF UF Students in Free Enterprise

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