This Way to Sustainability Conference

Conference Director
Dr. Cindy Daley, Director, Center for Regenerative Ag
cdaley@csuchico.edu
530-898-6280
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Breakout Sessions

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THURSDAY | March 25, 2021

**Keynote Speaker | 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.**
Speaker	Session Description
Bill Shireman(opens in new window), Ph.D., UC Berkeley Haas School of Business	“In This Together: how to reach across the political and economic divide toward finding workable solutions to our Climate Crisis”

**Breakout 1 | 10:10 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.**
Track	Speaker(s)	Organization	Session Title
1) Environment, Land Planning, & Natural Systems	Eli Goodsell	Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserves	The Urgency for Stewarding California’s Forest(opens in new window)
2) Built Environment, Engineering, & Waste Management	Rachel Wong	CSU, Office of the Chancellor	Getting the Carbon Out of Buildings: What Works for the CSU?(opens in new window)
3) Health, Wellness, Diet, & Nutrition	Gayle Kimball, Ph.D.	CSU Chico	Climate Girls Saving Our World(opens in new window)
4) Food Systems & Regenerative Agriculture	Cynthia Daley, PhD	CSU Chico Center for Regenerative Agriculture & Resilient Systems	Regenerative Agricultural Solutions to Soil Degradation and the Climate Crisis(opens in new window)
5)Entrepreneurship, Marketing & Supply Chain Management	Ben Sampson	WeHero	Activating Corporate Sustainability(opens in new window)
6) Social Justice & Public Policy	Mr. Edward Quevedo, J.D. , Ms. Mackinzee Marie Macho	The Foresight+Innovation Lab	The End of Sustainability: Regenerative Development and Cultural Transformation(opens in new window)
7) Arts, Humanities & Creative Expression	Chauncey L Foster, Benjamin Parr, & Noah Mertz	We.Grow.Eco	Making Actionable Change a Habit: A We.Grow.Eco Project (opens in new window)

**Breakout 2 | 11:10 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.**
Track	Speaker(s)	Organization	Session Title
1) Environment, Land Planning, & Natural Systems	Emilyn Sheffield, Joel Ramirez, Daniel Crispino, Juan Ruiz, & Liliana Garcia	CSU Chico	Career Camp: Increasing Engagement Awareness for Diverse First Term Students(opens in new window)
2) Built Environment, Engineering, & Waste Management	Arianne Ortegaray, Shyla Black	GRID Alternatives	Powering Community Resilience Through Energy Equity
3) Health, Wellness, Diet, & Nutrition	Maria Giovanni, PhD	Department of Nutrition CSU Chico	Connecting Personal Health to Planet Health: A Case Study with First Year Students(opens in new window)
4) Food Systems & Regenerative Agriculture	Jared Geiser, Lynette K Niebrugge, & Jeffrey Creque	Glenn County Resource Conservation District & Carbon Cycle Institute	Building Resiliency in Soils and Communities through Carbon Farming(opens in new window)
5)Entrepreneurship, Marketing & Supply Chain Management	Sarah Smith & Nikita Bangera	CSU East Bay	Marketing to save the world: Psychology and Sustainable Marketing(opens in new window)
6) Social Justice & Public Policy	Wendy Olmstead & Dr. Debra Rowe	CSU Stanislaus & Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium	Beyond Doom and Gloom: Climate Solutions for Students
7) Arts, Humanities & Creative Expression	Shawn Shafner	The People's Own Organic Power (POOP) Project	Assume the Throne: The Tao of Poo and Collective Transformation(opens in new window)

**Keynote Speaker | 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.**
Speaker	Session Description
Jennifer Atkinson(opens in new window) Ph.D., Associate Professor Environmental Humanities, University of Washington	“Eco-Grief & Climate Anxiety: In a time when there is so much bad news, how do we learn to cope?"

**Breakout 3 | 2:10 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.**
Track	Speaker(s)	Organization	Session Title
1) Environment, Land Planning, & Natural Systems	Jacquelyn Chase, Casey Hegel, Peter Hansen & Samuel Mijal	CSU Chico	Vulnerability to Fire in the Wildland Urban Interface: Lessons from the Camp Fire(opens in new window)
2) Built Environment, Engineering, & Waste Management	Massey Burke & Chris Kerston	The California Straw Building Association & The Savory Institute	The Regenerative Fire Rebuild Project
3) Health, Wellness, Diet, & Nutrition	Josh Trout PhD	CSU Chico	Sustaining an Extraordinary Life Through Movement: The tools to transform your health(opens in new window)
4) Food Systems & Regenerative Agriculture	Emily Moose Callan Glover	A Greener World University Reno, Nevada	Life Cycle Assessment of Integrated Resource Recovery on Large-Scale California Dairy Farms(opens in new window) Another buzzword or our only hope? The role of third-party certification in meaningful assessment of regenerative farming(opens in new window)
5)Entrepreneurship, Marketing & Supply Chain Management	Elline Deogracias, Tracie Tung, Sarah Johnson & Natale Zappia	CSU Northridge	A Closer Look at CSR Practices in Sustainable Fashion: A Guideline for Apparel Brands(opens in new window)
6) Social Justice & Public Policy	Dr. Peter Michael Hess & Spencer McNairn	CSU Chico	Seeking Common Ground on Climate Sustainability: a Dialogue Between Two Generations(opens in new window)
7) Arts, Humanities & Creative Expression	Dr. Mark Stemen, Nora Pizzella, Katherine Dahl & Chelsea Barron	CSU Chico	Building Community Resilience by Telling Stories of Climate Action(opens in new window)

**Breakout 4 | 3:10 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.**
Track	Speaker(s)	Organization	Session Title
1) Environment, Land Planning, & Natural Systems	Jillian Buckholz & Kim Napoli	CSU East Bay	Creating an Air Travel Offset Policy at Cal State East Bay(opens in new window)
2) Built Environment, Engineering, & Waste Management	Fred Klammt	WinSoL.org	Mitigating global weirding - adapting design to a changing world(opens in new window)
3) Health, Wellness, Diet, & Nutrition	Hayley Heino, MS & Joanna Rodriguez Bahena	Center for Healthy Communities	Cultivating Food Literacy and Economic Diversity at Farmers’ Markets(opens in new window)
4) Food Systems & Regenerative Agriculture	Consuelo Baez Vega & Ana Medic	CSU Chico	Benefits of Cover Cropping Systems in Walnut Orchards as Sustainable Agricultural Practice(opens in new window)
5)Entrepreneurship, Marketing & Supply Chain Management	Garrett Liles	CSU Chico	RAD Lab
6)Social Justice & Public Policy	Antonia Carolina Castro-Graham, Julia Islas, Olivia Martinez, Sean Hamada, Alec D’leon, & Kenneth Hagihara Beth Weinman, Marissa Acosta, Jason Vang, Ayanna Alewine, Nicole Lucha, Feng Teter, Iris Soto, Michael Mayfield, & Juana Lozano	City of Fullerton & CSU Fullerton CSU Fresno & SEI Climate Corps	Town and Gown Partnerships to Foster Sustainable Communities(opens in new window) Ongoing Student-led Sustainability Efforts at Fresno State (opens in new window)
7)Arts, Humanities & Creative Expression	Nikoal Phantom	CSU Chico	A New Approach to Inspire Activism? How Art Enhances Environmental Education Programs and Stimulates Empathy and Concern for Bees and other Pollinators(opens in new window)

**Environmental Community Gathering Happy Hour | 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m**
Hosted by Butte Environmental Council(opens in new window) and the Environmental Coalition of Butte County(opens in new window), this gathering will offer a lively and social celebration for ongoing local environmental efforts. The gathering showcases dozens of Butte County region groups, organizations and agencies working on various environmental issues in the North State. The Gathering is a place to provide opportunities for TWTS attendees to meet local environmental leaders, share common concerns, and engage in environmental work. You're invited bring their own beverage and mingle with each other as you bounce from “table to table” interacting with various environmental groups from the region on a variety of issues.

**Poster Symposium Presentations |**
Presenter	Organization	Poster Title
Adrien van Dyke	California State University East Bay - Office of Sustainability	Call Logo "Campus" Cleanups in a Virtual Age
Ana Medic	CSU Chico	Wastewater Stabilization Pond System as a Sustainable and Economically Beneficial Solution for Puno, Peru
Madeline McAndrew	CSU Chico	Consumer Awareness of Fava Beans: Nutritive Properties, Consumption, and Preparation Methods
Sharn Basi	CSU East Bay, Office of Sustainability	Tragedy of the Commons
Elizabeth Jimenez, Alondra Salazar, Arthur Carlos, Michelle Nguyen, Xayaphone Salinthone	California State University, Fresno	Sustainability through Data Analytics
Samantha Thomas (she/her), Wendy Olmstead, Destiny Suarez	California State University, Stanislaus, Stanislaus State Eco Warriors	Connecting Sustainability Across Warrior Nation
Eva Ottum, Evan Warns	Boston College	Engineering a Bioreactor using Principles of Frugal Innovation
Anna Lenaker	Repustar	Cultivating Eco-Consciousness: Global and Local Approaches
Wendy Olmstead	Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium/California State University Stanislaus	Braiding Sweetgrass Into a Sustainable Campus Culture
Richard McDonald	Retired Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Physicist	Modular Truck - The Future of Trucking from Farm to Consumer
Devin Odom, Callan Glover, Pablo Cornejo	University of Nevada, Reno	California Dairy Water and Energy Usage Life Cycle Assessment

FRIDAY | March 26, 2020

**Keynote Speaker | 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.**
Speaker	Session Description
Katharine Wilkinson(opens in new window) Ph.D., Author, Strategist, and Editor-in-Chief at Project Drawdown(opens in new window)	“All We Can Save: Empowering women and girls in a climate renaissance”

**Breakout 5 | 10:10 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.**
Track	Speaker(s)	Organization	Session Title
1) Environment, Land Planning, & Natural Systems	Bonnie Persons, JD MBA, John Meyer, JD, Araceli Vargas Ayala, and Julie Beck	CSU Chico	Water Law. The Maui Case: Time and Distance and 50 years backwards?(opens in new window)
2) Built Environment, Engineering, & Waste Management	DingXin Cheng	CSU Chico	Improving Sustainability of Roadway Construction through California Pavement Preservation Center(opens in new window)
3) Health, Wellness, Diet, & Nutrition	Sara Keough, MS, CNS, LDN	Understanding AG	The Role of Pasture-raised Animals in Human & Ecological Health(opens in new window)
4) Food Systems & Regenerative Agriculture	Anastaysia Cole, Yesm Lydia Breen, Alejandra A Arciniega Greeley, Leslie Chang	Planet Earth Observatory	Climate Change in A Hungry World: A Community Science Healthy Soils Investigation(opens in new window)
5)Entrepreneurship, Marketing & Supply Chain Management	Tamara Wallace, Brad Haydel, Tom Johnson	CSU Chancellors Office, CSU LA	CSU Sustainable Procurement Policy(opens in new window)
6) Social Justice & Public Policy	Melissa Reyes	CSU San Marcos	Social Justice Through Sustainability: Acknowledging students of environmentally discriminated areas through sustainable efforts on campus(opens in new window)
7) Arts, Humanities & Creative Expression	Ms. Melina Sempill Watts David Eaton	Writer CSU Chico	Cultural Impacts on Ecosystem Transitions: the Rise of the Anthropocene in Novel "Tree" by Melina Sempill Watts(opens in new window) Reimagining Chico's historic core(opens in new window)

**Breakout 6 | 11:10 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.**
Track	Speaker(s)	Organization	Session Title
1) Environment, Land Planning & Natural Systems	Noelle Ferdon Brimlow & Brooklynn Lozano	CSU Chico	Engaging Students in Environmental Activism(opens in new window)
2) Built Environments, Engineering & Waste Management	Dylan Hall, Mayko Aguirre & Dr. Pablo K Cornejo Keoni Liclican	CSU Chico	Social, Environmental, and Economic (SEE) Wastewater Decision Support for Small Communities(opens in new window) cycle assessment of high rate algal ponds for nutrient recovery from wastewater(opens in new window)
3) Health, Wellness, Diet & Nutrition	Sarah Johnson & Juliana Goodlaw-Morris	CSU Northridge & CSU San Marcos	Sustainable Menstruation: Making Periods Zero Waste and Accessible to All(opens in new window)
4) Food Systems & Regenerative Agriculture	Megan Luke & Elizabeth A. Boyd, PhD	CSU Chico	Old field new tech: How scientific innovation and data science are increasing sustainable practices in commercial agriculture(opens in new window)
5)Entrepreneurship, Marketing & Supply Chain Management	Cheri Chastain Marie Patterson	CSU Chico	Climate Action and Resilience Planning at Chico State(opens in new window) Presenting the Strategic Energy Master Plan for Chico State(opens in new window)
6) Social Justice & Public Policy	Jesse Engebretson Kerri Vanderbom, Betina Wildhaber, Josephine Blagrave	CSU Chico CSU Chico	Paying Attention to Process: Mitigating Epistemic Violence on Environmental Planning and Policy Development Collaborative Teams(opens in new window) Sustainability Through the Disability Lens
7) Arts, Humanities & Creative Expression	Dr. Tim Sistrunk, Nathaniel M Millard, Dr Mark Stemen & Angela Casler	CSU Chico	Renewing the Sustainability Designation for Courses at Chico State(opens in new window)

**Keynote Speaker | 12:00p.m. - 1:00p.m.**
Speaker	Session Description
Leah Penniman(opens in new window) MA, Co-Executive Director of Soul Fire Farm(opens in new window) and Author of Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land	“Uprooting Racism and Seeding Sovereignty”

**Concurrent Workshops | 2:15pm - 3:45pm**
Workshop Title	Leader(s)	Organization	Description
Environmental Resiliency Collaborative	Megan Kurtz, Eli Goodsell, & Jason Schwenkler	CSU Chico	Come see how CSU, Chico's Environmental Resiliency Collaborative (ERC) can assist you in your next environmental project! With a focus on the natural environment and working land, the ERC identifies and prioritizes solutions for current and future challenges by conducting research, securing resources, implementing projects, and telling stories focused on the recovery and resiliency of our region. The goal of the ERC is to support collaboration focused on building resiliency in our region by extending invitations to all center, units, and community partners to join and/or participate in environmental resiliency related work through scholarship, teaching, and service. This workshop will highlight what expertise and services Chico State can provide to our local partners working on environmental projects and how you can request assistance from the ERC on your next endeavor.
Carbon Farm Planning 101	Cindy Daley & Priya Tuvell	CSU Chico	Learn the purpose, process and development of a whole farm plan to conserve/replenish soil and sequester carbon using the University Farm as our example. Resource concerns on a farm, ranch, or forestland are addressed through the application of targeted, site-specific conservation practices with known and/or quantifiable greenhouse gas benefits. A carbon plan can include supporting conservation practices that do not necessarily have a direct benefit to soil health, carbon, or greenhouse gas, but are essential to the function of the plan. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions and enhancing carbon sequestration on these lands have numerous co-benefits that improve ecosystem function and health. The carbon plan contains all the elements of a conservation plan including an inventory and analysis of current resource conditions, on-farm carbon sequestration and GHG mitigation potential, and the client’s decision regarding the implementation of a conservation system that will address the identified resource concerns. The workshop will cover the phases of carbon farm planning including some of the following: Collection and Analysis of Information Identify Client’s Objectives: Includes client’s short and long term goals for operation including soil health, carbon sequestration and GHG emissions reduction. Establish a resource inventory Using the NRCS Web Soil Survey – establish baseline soil carbon and baseline production information Build a plan that addresses soil degradation and emissions using conservation production practices and regenerative agriculture Quantify the carbon sequestration potential Quantify the water benefits Create summary tables and supporting data Setup an implementation program Setup a monitoring program Finalize the plan and begin.
Climate Change and Resilience - Faculty Development Workshop	Mark Stemen & Cheri Chastain	CSU Chico	Calling all faculty... Come learn how you can incorporate climate change and resilience into your courses! This spring, the Campus Sustainability Curriculum Subcommittee held three workshops on Teaching Climate Change and Resilience(opens in new window) in the classroom. This fourth workshop will quickly review the three previous workshops, with a special focus on the resources we assembled for faculty to use in their classrooms. Following that brief review, this workshop will shift focus to the upcoming Faculty Learning Community on Climate Change and Resilience planned for Spring '22. In that FLC, participants will be invited to think about teaching and learning with a focus on climate change and resilience. Our goal for the FLC is to support teaching climate change and resilience across all disciplines and fields of study. So, our conversation in this workshop will be driven by the questions that emerge from participants’ discussions: what are the obstacles to incorporating climate change and resilience into the course you teach and how can we structure the FLC to surmount them together? We encourage faculty from any campus to attend the conversation as it promises to be informative and inspiring!