Help on Your Campus from Planners? (STARS)
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This post is related to STARS, AASHE's Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System.
Have you been helped in your sustainability work by advice from someone on your campus experienced at navigating the bureaucracy?
Especially those of you in the STARS pilot, who've dealt with the immense complication of getting people in all corners of the campus to help you report out on a myriad of things.
I know of a few SCUP members who have communicated to me that they thought they had been very helpful in that way, since they tend to be senior people with lots of experience at that.
If you've got a story like that, I'd love to hear about it from your perspective. Thanks.
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Don't know if this is helpful, but I do have many stories about turning the tide in this regard!