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Action Items
Energy Transition & Resilience Plan
While the Climate Action Plan is specific to UT Arlington, climate change is a challenge that extends beyond our campus. U T A must be a leader in addressing the challenges of climate change in our educational programs, research, operations, finance, and community engagement.
Through four interactive sessions with more than 100 participants, the kick-off workshop looked to identify the opportunities, barriers, and major areas that this plan must deliver success in.
ENGAGEMENT WORKSHOPS
During the engagement workshops, noteworthy themes were expressed by students, staff, and stakeholders. These insights have been instrumental in shaping the Energy Transition and Resilience Plan, ensuring that it aligns with the specific needs and objectives of the U T A community.
- Social and community impact
- Economic Development and Innovation
- Food and waste
- Operations and finance
- Culture and Communication
- Mobility
- High-performance buildings
- Energy infrastructure
- Resilience
Priority Actions
Primary Goals:
- Highlighting existing sustainability research at UTA
- Ensuring widespread research access by hosting published articles on publicly available infrastructure
- and Ensuring sustainability materials are integrated into onboarding and recruiting efforts for students, faculty and staff.
Primary Goals:
- Identifying faculty to foster research within green technology
- Identifying target areas for sustainability to further grant-funded research
- Developing partnership for transition training utilizing UTA courses for professional accreditation.
Primary Goals:
- A comprehensive strategy for waste diversion
- and Reducing construction waste
Primary Goals:
- Identifying opportunities to improve water conservation and efficiency
- Reinforcing a culture of social and environmental responsibility through UTA’s financial investments
- and minimizing environmental impact of landscape management by focusing on xeriscaping.
Primary Goals:
- The continued expansion of community service programs
- The integration of sustainability messaging across all campus platforms organizations
- and Increasing dynamism of sustainability communications through increased social media presence
Primary Goals:
- Promoting active transportation options such as walkable connection to downtown, bike paths, etc.
Primary Goals:
- The development of sustainable design guidelines to be distributed to all contractors and designers working on UTA projects
- Lowering building water use intensity through high efficiency fixtures.
- and Development of on-site green infrastructure and renewable energy
Primary Goals:
- Replacing steam heat with high-efficiency heating infrastructure
- and Sourcing 100% low-carbon electricity
Primary Goals:
- Updating and expanding upon university disaster response planning
- and Enhancing campus power systems redundancy
Learn more!
This engagement point verified the priorities and actions of the University and a broad variety of its stakeholders. To learn more, read the full May Engagement Summary!