Episode 29: Changing the Climate for Women - Kayla Dawson

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Kayla Dawson, Professional Engineer

Kayla Dawson, Professional Engineer

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Kayla Dawson
Professional Engineer

Host: Sarah Barr
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Welcome to the Campus Energy and Sustainability Podcasts’ first short-episode series! Each month, we’ll release a half-hour episode based on a pertinent theme in the sustainability sphere, collecting a variety of opinions and viewpoints on important issues throughout the series. Our first theme is “Changing the Climate for Women,” and will focus on women’s experiences in sustainability, energy and facilities. Short series will be hosted by Kaia Findlay, podcast manager, and special guest hosts.

As an engineer, there’s nothing Kayla Dawson finds more frustrating than seeing a problem and being unable to solve it. But in environments where biases - whether they be regarding gender, leadership styles, or communication preferences - influence behavior, she sees this happening all too often. 

In this episode, Kayla and host Sarah Barrr discuss how dominant, “status quo” leadership and mentorship styles favor certain groups of people, and how breaking down that status quo can pave the way for women and other minorities to relax and feel comfortable in the workplace and leading the change necessary to address climate change. Kayla also talks about embracing personal limitations and using them to strengthen communication and collaboration with a work team instead of letting them turn into liabilities.. In this second episode of our ‘Changing the Climate for Women’ series, Kayla gives the insight that it’s not only diversity that matters at the workplace table -- it’s making sure diverse voices are heard, accepted and uplifted.

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Episode 28: Twenty Years of Sustainability with Anne Eskridge at the University of Washington

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Anne Eskridge, Director of Transportation Services, University of Washington

Anne Eskridge, Director of Transportation Services, University of Washington

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Anne Eskridge
Director of Transportation Services, University of Washington

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Dave Karlsgodt
Principal, Fovea, LLC

If you travel by car to visit the University of Washington, your transportation choice will be a minority of those on campus. About 81 percent of the university community travels by transit, by foot, by bike and by carpooling. Even with a high number of people taking sustainable transportation, director of transportation services Anne Eskridge has big hopes for an even more sustainable future at the university. 

In this episode, host Dave Karlsgodt interviews Anne about her more than twenty years of sustainability experience. Anne reflects on waste, water, electric vehicles, electric bikes and regional transportation partnerships. She discusses how to benefit both the planet and the pocketbook and gives advice to future sustainability leaders. She shares not only her sustainability knowledge, but entertaining and powerful anecdotes about her father’s experiences with salmon fishing in the Puget Sound, the role of psychology in the field of sustainability and her background as an auctioneer (listen all the way to the end of the episode to get a sample of her auctioneering talent).

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Episode 27: To Electric Vehicles and Beyond - Low-carbon transportation with Arjun Sarkar

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Arjun Sarkar, Sustainable Transportation Coordinator, University of California, Santa Barbara

Arjun Sarkar, Sustainable Transportation Coordinator, University of California, Santa Barbara

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Arjun Sarkar
Sustainable Transportation Coordinator, University of California, Santa Barbara

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Dave Karlsgodt
Principal, Fovea, LLC

The United State’s transportation sector lays claim to 29 percent of the country’s total greenhouse gas emissions. Cars, buses, trucks and airplanes, used as a part of daily life, present sustainability challenges that college and university sustainability officials feel poised to tackle.

In this episode, host Dave Karlsgodt sits down with Arjun Sarkar, Sustainable Transportation Coordinator for the University of California, Santa Barbara, to discuss low-carbon alternatives for transportation. In California, transportation accounts for 41 percent of the state’s total greenhouse gas emissions. The discussion ranges from electric vehicles and renewable fuels to the economics of alternative fuel vehicles and hydrogen fuel cell technology. Arjun speaks specifically of UCSB and California as well as themes with national scope.

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Episode 26: Changing the Climate for Women - Bonny Bentzin

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Bonny Bentzin, Deputy Chief Sustainability Officer at UCLA

Bonny Bentzin, Deputy Chief Sustainability Officer at UCLA

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Bonny Bentzin
Deputy Chief Sustainability Officer, UCLA

Host: Sarah Barr
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Welcome to the Campus Energy and Sustainability Podcasts’ first short-episode series! Each month, we’ll release a half-hour episode based on a pertinent theme in the sustainability sphere, collecting a variety of opinions and viewpoints on important issues throughout the series. Our first theme is “Changing the Climate for Women,” and will focus on women’s experiences in sustainability, energy and facilities. Short series will be hosted by Kaia Findlay, podcast manager, and special guest hosts.

What if, to get ahead at work, you were told that you not only had to work hard and show up to your desk on time, but that you also had to wear pastels and not stand in doorways?

This is some of the strange advice Bonny Bentzin, deputy chief of sustainability at UCLA, has received as a woman working in her field. In this episode, Bonny discusses her experiences and her observations of gender at play in the workplace with host Sarah Barr. Their conversation sheds light on the challenges and triumphs women experience in teamwork, communication and leadership.

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Episode 25: Losing Steam - Carleton College’s Energy Transition

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Martha Larson, Manager of Campus Energy and Sustainability at Carleton College

Martha Larson, Manager of Campus Energy and Sustainability at Carleton College

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Martha Larson
Campus Energy and Sustainability Manager, Carleton College

Host: Dave Karlsgodt
Principal, Fovea, LLC

Carleton College has been getting into hot water — but in the best way possible. 

Listen to this episode to hear Martha Larson, Carleton’s manager of campus energy and sustainability, discuss the college’s process for replacing its 20th century steam system with a geothermal-based district energy system. The new system will allow the campus to use heat pumps and the earth’s consistent 50 degree Fahrenheit temperature to help regulate heating and cooling on campus more efficiently. Larson dives into the physics that make the system work, the planning and approval process for the project, and how the new system will help Carleton meet its future sustainability goals in a discussion with host Dave Karlsgodt.

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  • Carleton College’s Utility Master Plan: go.carleton.edu/geothermal

    • Go here for more charts and graphs, photos, FAQs, project updates and more

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