Sunday, October 4, 2026

Key South Foyer East Foyer Key Ballroom 1-8 Brent Carroll Douglass Johnson A Johnson B Key Ballroom 9 Key Ballroom 10 Key Ballroom 11 Key Ballroom 12 Latrobe Paca Peale Ruth Tubman

8:30 am

East Foyer

8:30 am - 3:50 pm

Registration Open

9:00 am

Key South Foyer

9:00 am - 6:25 pm

Expo Hall Open

Carroll

9:00 am → 45 min

Building Your Support Network: NGOs Helping Campuses Advance Plant-Rich Dining Summary

Aaron Gross

Networking Meeting
Food & Dining

Johnson A

9:00 am → 45 min

Collegiate Sports Sustainability Network (CSSN) Networking Session

Networking Meeting
Coordination & Planning

Johnson B

9:00 am → 45 min

Green Labs Networking Meeting

Ryan Weeks-Rutan

Networking Meeting
Campus Engagement

Key Ballroom 9

9:00 am → 45 min

Early Career Sustainability Professionals & Strengthening Networks

Networking Meeting
Wellbeing & Work

Key Ballroom 11

9:00 am → 45 min

Greener Grounds Networking Session

Networking Meeting
Buildings & Grounds

Key Ballroom 12

9:00 am → 45 min

Zero Waste Campuses

Networking Meeting
Procurement & Waste

Latrobe

9:00 am → 45 min

Teaching Sustainability through Experiential Learning- Networking Meeting for Instructors

Morgan Hartman

Networking Meeting
Curriculum

Peale

9:00 am → 45 min

Network with Professionals Providing Graduate Student Professional Development

Trina Van Schyndel

Networking Meeting
Campus Engagement

Ruth

9:00 am → 45 min

Future-Ready Facilities: Driving Performance Through Sustainable Solutions

Networking Meeting
Buildings & Grounds

9:45 am

Key South Foyer

9:45 am → 30 min

Refreshment Break

10:15 am

Brent

10:15 am → 45 min

Building a Sustainable Internet: A Student-Taught Interdisciplinary Course

Michael Brand

Student Field Report
Curriculum

Carroll

10:15 am → 45 min

Using STARS to Measure & Map What Matters: Diagnosing Scores & Distilling Stakeholders Perspectives

Field Report
Coordination & Planning

Douglass

10:15 am → 45 min

Holistic Sustainability: Inspiring Students with Recognition, Reciprocity, and Care

Caroline Gamble

Field Report
Campus Engagement

Johnson A

10:15 am → 45 min

Sustainability Silences: AI Environmental Gaps in STARS Platinum Institutions

Tanaporn 'Gig' Supanichrattana

Field Report
Research

Johnson B

10:15 am → 45 min

Providing an on-ramp for young professionals: Emory's Sustainability Fellowship Program

Field Report
Campus Engagement

Key Ballroom 9

10:15 am → 105 min

How to “Speak CFO” 2.0 - Bridging the Gap to Make the Sustainability Business Case

Learning Lab
Coordination & Planning

Key Ballroom 10

10:15 am → 45 min

Sustainability Through Building Energy Efficiency: UMN’s Mission Towards Decarbonization

Field Report
Energy & Climate

Key Ballroom 12

10:15 am → 45 min

Take a Hike (to the Bin): Implementing Centralized Collections

Field Report
Procurement & Waste

Latrobe

10:15 am → 45 min

Empowering student ownership of learning through a competency development assessment tool

Field Report
Curriculum

Paca

10:15 am → 45 min

Funding Sustainability From the Ground Up: Lessons From Campus Green Funds Across Multiple Jurisdict

Field Report
Campus Engagement

Peale

10:15 am → 105 min

Living Labs That Deliver: Four Institutional Approaches to Developing Metrics and Evaluating Impact

Learning Lab
Campus Engagement

Ruth

10:15 am → 105 min

An Invitation to Meet the Moment: Envisioning Transformative Education for a Livable World

Learning Lab
Curriculum

Tubman

10:15 am → 105 min

Driving Sustainable Campus Dining: A Student Framework for Plant-Rich Change

Student Learning Lab
Food & Dining

11:15 am

Brent

11:15 am → 45 min

Real Food Calculation at University of New Hampshire

Student Field Report
Food & Dining

Douglass

11:15 am → 45 min

The Role of the Campus Thrift Shop in Reducing Waste, Promoting Sustainability, & Creating Community

Field Report
Procurement & Waste

Johnson A

11:15 am → 45 min

Beyond Compliance: How Higher Education Can Shape Local Building Performance Regulations

Field Report
Energy & Climate

Johnson B

11:15 am → 45 min

Level Up Your Student Employment Program

Field Report
Campus Engagement

Key Ballroom 10

11:15 am → 45 min

A Systems Approach to Sustainability and Climate Action in the California Community Colleges

Field Report
Coordination & Planning

Key Ballroom 11

11:15 am → 45 min

Lessons From the Ground: The Case for Soil-Based Organic Land Care

Field Report
Buildings & Grounds

Key Ballroom 12

11:15 am → 45 min

(Not) Quick and Dirty: Georgia Tech and UC Berkeley Perspectives on Zero Waste

Field Report
Procurement & Waste

Latrobe

11:15 am → 45 min

Emphasizing the Overlap: Links between Experiential Learning, Mission, & Sustainability Programming

Field Report
Curriculum

Paca

11:15 am → 45 min

Student-Led Change: Empowering Campus Communities Through Funding

Field Report
Campus Engagement

12:00 pm

Key Ballroom 1-8

12:00 pm → 105 min

Lunch

12:10 pm

Brent

12:10 pm → 35 min

Lightning Talks Block 1

Lightning Talk

1:00 pm

Brent

1:00 pm → 45 min

Lightning Talks Block 2

Lightning Talk

2:00 pm

Key Ballroom 1-8

2:00 pm → 60 min

Keynote

3:00 pm

Key South Foyer

3:00 pm → 30 min

Refreshment break

3:30 pm

Brent

3:30 pm → 45 min

Nurturing Natives: The Importance of Native Plants and What you can do as a Student

Student Field Report
Buildings & Grounds

Carroll

3:30 pm → 45 min

How STARS Can be Used to Improve Disaster Resiliency: Case of University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

Elisabeth Earley

Field Report
Coordination & Planning

Douglass

3:30 pm → 45 min

Campus as Forest: Catalyzing Regenerative Development in Higher Education

Field Report
Buildings & Grounds

Johnson A

3:30 pm → 45 min

Create new Revenues From Sustainable Sports for Athletics, Education, Research and Facilities

Field Report
Buildings & Grounds

Johnson B

3:30 pm → 105 min

Charting a Course to Climate Action: Incorporating Climate Wayfinding in Your Class or Club

Learning Lab
Campus Engagement

Key Ballroom 9

3:30 pm → 45 min

AI and Sustainability: Cultivating Action at NYU and UC Berkeley

Field Report
Coordination & Planning

Key Ballroom 10

3:30 pm → 105 min

A Methodology for Higher Ed Purchased Goods and Services Scope 3 Emissions Accounting and Management

Learning Lab
Energy & Climate

Key Ballroom 12

3:30 pm → 105 min

Proving the Payoff: Building a CFO-Ready Zero Waste Business Case

Learning Lab
Procurement & Waste

Latrobe

3:30 pm → 45 min

Building the Climate Workforce: Using Data to Align Curriculum, Jobs, and Regional Strategy

Field Report
Curriculum

Paca

3:30 pm → 105 min

Bias Beneath the Surface: Building a more equitable sustainability movement

Learning Lab
Representation & Access

Peale

3:30 pm → 45 min

Exploring Campus and Community Dashboards as Tools for Connection, Learning, and Resilience

Field Report
Campus Engagement

Ruth

3:30 pm → 105 min

Workshop-in-a-Box: Teaching with the UN SDGs and Sustainability Key Competencies

Learning Lab
Curriculum

Tubman

3:30 pm → 105 min

Telling Effective Stories to Recruit Your Community to Take Action

Sarah Eckstein

Student Learning Lab
Campus Engagement

4:30 pm

Brent

4:30 pm → 45 min

By Us, for Us: Advancing Student-Led, Community-Based Environmental Justice Education at UC Berkeley

Student Field Report
Curriculum

Carroll

4:30 pm → 45 min

Metrics, Messaging, and Design: Maintaining STARS Momentum

Field Report
Campus Engagement

Douglass

4:30 pm → 45 min

Mapping Campus Shade Gaps: Using Tree Canopy Data to Drive Smarter Planting Decisions

Eliotte Lin

Field Report
Buildings & Grounds

Johnson A

4:30 pm → 45 min

Student-Led Sustainability Engagement in Research Labs: A Co-Curricular Consultant Program

Field Report
Campus Engagement

Key Ballroom 9

4:30 pm → 45 min

Acting on (and Funding) Decarbonization Across Higher Education

Field Report
Energy & Climate

Latrobe

4:30 pm → 45 min

Getting creative: Using AI to Source High-Quality Student–Operations Sustainability Projects

Field Report
Curriculum

Peale

4:30 pm → 45 min

They're Letting Me Make Memes!?: Using Instagram to Connect With Students

Matthew Brinn

Field Report
Campus Engagement

5:30 pm

Carroll

5:30 pm → 45 min

NY Coalition for Sustainability in Higher Education (NYCSHE) Meet-Up

Mary Ellen Mallia

Networking Meeting
Coordination & Planning

Key Ballroom 9

5:30 pm → 45 min

UMACS Networking Session

Megan Voorhees

Networking Meeting
Campus Engagement

Key Ballroom 10

5:30 pm → 45 min

TRACS Networking Session - Texas Regional Alliance for Campus Sustainability

Networking Meeting
Coordination & Planning

Latrobe

5:30 pm → 45 min

The 2030 SDGs Game: Building Collaboration for a Sustainable Future

Elisabeth Reed

Networking Meeting
Coordination & Planning

Tuesday, October 6, 2026

Key South Foyer Key Ballroom 1-8 Brent Carroll Douglass Johnson A Johnson B Key Ballroom 9 Key Ballroom 10 Key Ballroom 11 Key Ballroom 12 Latrobe Paca Peale Ruth Tubman