The Compass is your guide to sustainability at SCU and beyond, including the latest from SCU's Sustainability Data Hub, resources to help you find your role in sustainability and sustainability in your role, and opportunities for Broncos to build a more humane, just, and sustainable world.
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Inspired by his students and SCU’s Center of Sustainability, Toby McChesney. SCU's vice provost for graduate programs, joins East San Jose nonprofit Veggielution’s board of directors. McChesney is currently participating in the Academics Working Group as part of a year-long inclusive planning process co-sponsored by the Division of Mission and Ministry to create a sustainability action plan that takes SCU through 2030 inspired by Pope Francis’ landmark environmental encyclical Laudato Si’.
As a participant in the Santa Clara Green Power program by Silicon Valley Power (SVP), Santa Clara University is able to cover 100% of its electricity usage with renewable sources. SVP recently announced that all of the energy it provides to the city of Santa Clara is carbon-free as well – meaning whether you live on or off campus at SCU, your electricity comes from clean sources!
As a Host Institution for the virtual conference, all those with an @scu.edu address register for free!
SCU is now one of the few universities that has reached carbon neutrality of energy used for campus operations in 2020.
We recently added a section in our Sustainability Playbooks that matches each action with a STARS objective category, so viewers can identify how their choices are contributing to these goals.
