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Sustainable Facilities Forum 2024 Leadership Award Winners

The importance of these awards lies in their ability to inspire and motivate individuals, organizations, and communities to adopt sustainable practices and technologies. By recognizing and honoring the efforts and achievements of sustainability leaders, the awards create role models and showcase success stories that can drive further progress. The awards also provide a platform for networking, collaboration, and knowledge sharing among stakeholders, fostering a sense of community and shared responsibility for environmental stewardship.

Overall, the Leadership Awards play a vital role in promoting and accelerating the transition towards a more sustainable future.

Meet the CCC: Growing the Green Energy Work Force

Blue hats, khaki shirts, big smiles – while attending Green Technology’s signature events you might have run into the recognizable crews from the California Conservation Corps (CCC).

What you might not know is these young adults are part of CCC’s Energy Corps where they train for careers in the clean energy sector through a year of hands-on, paid service to California.

Sustainable Facilities Forum 2023 Leadership Award Winners

The importance of these awards lies in their ability to inspire and motivate individuals, organizations, and communities to adopt sustainable practices and technologies. By recognizing and honoring the efforts and achievements of sustainability leaders, the awards create role models and showcase success stories that can drive further progress. The awards also provide a platform for networking, collaboration, and knowledge sharing among stakeholders, fostering a sense of community and shared responsibility for environmental stewardship.

Overall, the Leadership Awards play a vital role in promoting and accelerating the transition towards a more sustainable future.

The unexpected arboretum: CSUSM benefits from sustainable approach to water and environmental management

Back in 2021, arboretums were very much on the minds of surveyors from the educational facilities organization APPA when they visited California State University San Marcos. The surveyors were on campus to assess CSUSM’s facilities for a prestigious award, and while they were there, they couldn’t help but be impressed by the condition of the CSUSM grounds. They were struck particularly by the quality of the work involved in maintaining the institution’s inventory of trees and plants.