0 Alachua County ECSC Partnership Opportunities for Reducing our County’s Energy Footprint Dedee DeLongpre-Johnston, MBA Director, 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? 1

2 Guiding Principles 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

3 The Triangle of Actors Society Government Business EnvironmentEconomy Citizens

Public engagement strategy County-wide public engagement strategy  What should it include?  Kickoff “Energy summit”  Importance of CBSM Attitudes, Barriers, Benefits Which behaviors? Summit – strategy or start of CBSM process  Collaborative Visioning Process 4

Experience Reducing Energy  Successes 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  5

Opportunities: Carbon Action Plan  Carbon Inventory  Conservation Metering, new construction, preventative maintenance, major systems Conservation Campaigns: Res Halls, Classrooms, Labs, Commuters, Air Travel  Alternative Energy  Offsets  Regulatory Arena  Financing 6

7 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 plan  Back to CBSM – information campaigns only work if lack of information is the barrier to the behavior change 8

Utility Rebates Are we taking advantage of them?  Suggested stakeholder John Lawson – UF PPD Energy Office 9

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 10

11 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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