CCC's Focus the Nation Page
"Focus the Nation"
Join Students, Faculty, Staff, & Community
Choose Your Future---VOTE! Pick the top 5 initiatives to move us toward
a sustainable future
Week of Monday, January 28 - Friday, February 1
Schedule of Events: Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday |Thursday | Friday
Sponsors:
CCC Sustainability Task Force | CCC Phi Theta Kappa
Resources: CCC Library Sustainability links | Library Resources 
Teaching Links (Climate Change Education)
Food Sponsors | Speakers | National Focus the Nation
CCC Focus the Nation PowerPoint
CCC Focus the Nation Brochure
Hot Soup and Hot Topics Coming to CCC! Are you planning for a sustainable future?
Learn more about creating our sustainable future during our “Focus the Nation” events here at Coconino Community College. We are participating in the national “Focus the Nation” teach-in along with more than 1,500 U.S. colleges and universities as students learn more about and brainstorm to solve the environmental challenges of the future. CCC students, staff and community members share information about how CCC is creating a sustainable future. Other topics include the science and economics of sustainability and sustainable community issues. Brown Bag luncheon/supper with hot soup available; Community members are invited.
Focus the Nation Week - Monday, January 28 – Friday, February 1
Schedule of Events:
Monday - 1/28/08 Watch PowerPoint about Focus the Nation initiatives and events held at Coconino Community College in the Commons at Lone Tree Campus; Sign up to vote in local and national elections with voter registration cards available; Vote on Focus the Nation’s sustainable initiatives to help you Choose Your Future @ www.focusthenation.org/chooseyourfuture.php
'Choose Your Future. Vote for the top 5 (Online Voting ends Feb 12th):
1. Invest in the Clean Energy Revolution
2. Create Green Jobs, Save Energy
3. No New Coal Plants without "Capture and Sequestration"
4. Cap Pollution & Cut Checks (to All Americans)
5. Build Green: Carbon Neutral by 2030
6. Jumpstart Low Polluting Biofuel
7. Support Stronger Forests
8. Tax Global Warming Pollution
9. Cleaner Cars, California-Style
10.Get Efficient — Cut Energy, Save Money;
Tuesday - 1/29/08 11:30 am – 1 pm Coconino Community College President, Dr. Leah Bornstein will be signing a Letter of Endorsement supporting Focus the Nation. Speakers include CCC’s Executive Director of Facilities & Sustainability Task Force Chair, Mark Easton and Cynthia Pardo, CCC’s Phi Theta Kappa President speaking on green initiatives happening at Coconino Community College; Brown Bag luncheon with hot soup available; Community members are invited.
Cynthia Pardo, Phi Theta Kappa’s Beta Gamma Chi Chapter President -- “We Students can cut global warming pollution by getting involved today. As a student you have the power to affect change in our world.”
Wednesday - 1/30/08 5:30 pm – 7 pm Showing of the webcast from Focus the Nation entitled, "2% Solution" in the Commons, Lone Tree Campus, Coconino Community College plus speaker on ecotourism; Brown Bag luncheon with hot soup available; Community members are invited.
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The 2% SOLUTION-- Wednesday CCC Lone Tree Commons; begins 5:30 pm - 7 pm A national, interactive webcast, airing live the evening of Wednesday, January 30th, featuring Stanford climate scientist Stephen Schneider, sustainability expert Hunter Lovins, and green jobs pioneer Van Jones. Show the webcast to launch your teach-in. Screen it at your college, university, school, faith group, civic organization, or at a house party. Our goal—10,000 screenings and a determination TO STOP GLOBAL WARMING. |
Thursday - 1/31/07 11:30 am – 1 pm Showing of "The Story of Stuff" available @: www.storyofstuff.com with Coconino Community College instructors in Environmental Science and Economics talking about the science and economics of being "green"; Brown Bag luncheon with hot soup available; Community members are invited.
Friday - 2/1/08 11:30 am – 1 pm Brown Bag luncheon; Community leaders share perspectives of a green future in Flagstaff and Coconino County; Brown Bag luncheon with hot soup available; Community members are invited.
Food Sponsors:
Shamrock Foods Company, 3615 E. Industrial Drive, Flagstaff
Air Fare Restaurant, 6200 S. Pulliam Drive, Flagstaff
Our Daily Bread Deli, Lone Tree Campus, Flagstaff
Bryan Bates, Dr. Leah Bornstein, Joe Costion, Diane Dearmore, Mark Easton, Paul Holbrook, Cynthia Pardo, Ellen Ryan, Kathy Farretta, Debbie Holbrook (facilitator)
Bryan Bates holds a Masters in Environmental Science studying acid rain chemistry and photosynthesis. He is a founding faculty member here at CCC since its founding 16 years ago.Bryan follows global warming issues integrates which he integrates into his Environmental Biology class (BIO 105). He conducts enviromental assessments on Colorado Plateau. Brians' other area of interest is archaeoastronomy. In addition, he is a long term member on the Festival of Science committe over the past 9 years.
Leah L. Bornstein, Ph.D. -President – Coconino Community College, Flagstaff Ariz.
Dr. Leah L. Bornstein serves as President of Coconino Community College in Flagstaff Ariz. The 15-year-old college spans 18,000 square miles of northern Arizona with campuses in Flagstaff, Page and Williams, and facilities at the Grand Canyon, Fredonia and Tuba City. CCC reaches some of the most remote stretches of Arizona with online services including three online degrees and two certificates. The college, with more than 350 full-time and part-time employees, offers more than 60 degrees and certificates and expects to set another enrollment record in fall 2007 with nearly 7,000 students. Dr. Bornstein comes to CCC from Colorado Mountain College in Summit County where she served as Dean and CEO for one of the nation’s largest rural community colleges. CMC has seven campuses – three residential and four commuter – that serve 22,000 students in north central Colorado. Summit Campus serves more than 3,000 students annually and supports more than 400 full-time and part-time faculty and staff. Dr. Bornstein led the campus and community through site determination, land acquisition, design and development of a new 35,000-square-foot campus acting as the gateway into Breckenridge, an internationally known ski resort community. Prior to coming to CCC, Dr. Bornstein served as Chief Academic Officer of Lamar Community College, a small community college in rural Colorado and part of the Colorado Community College System. She also was Dean of Instruction at the Higher Colleges of Technology-Center for Education Research and Training in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates and, the Vice President for Academic Affairs at University College, University of Denver.
In each of these positions she has been responsible for working with and facilitating community advisory boards, boards of trustees, and foundation boards; as well as strategic planning and budgeting. Dr. Bornstein’s innovative oversight of facilities, academic and technical programs and support services, economic development and workforce training, distance education, adult education and literacy studies, continuing education, accreditation and faculty supervision has been a strength at each institution.
A native New Englander, Dr. Bornstein’s lifelong commitment to higher education began with her associate’s and bachelor’s of arts degrees from Bradford College in Bradford, Mass.; master’s degree of education from the University of Vermont; and doctorate degree from the University of Denver. She is known for her keen insight, refreshing candor and innovative campus leadership.
Dr. Bornstein is married to Joseph D. Findley. Joe is employed at Northern Arizona University as the Enrollment Services Technology Director.
Joe Costion is currently the Department Chair for Construction Technology Management at Coconino Community College (CCC) in Flagstaff on CCC's 4th Street Campus. He has initiated an Alternative Energy Associate Degree Program at CCC. He currently teaches a variety of construction trades related courses and weekend workshops at CCC in Solar applications and Sustainable Building.
He has been an avid proponent of the utilization of Solar applications in Arizona since 1976, is actively involved with development of the Coconino County Sustainable Building Program and lives with his wife, an organic gardener, in a passive solar home off the grid.
Joe can be reached at his office at 526-7696 or joe.Costion@coconino.edu
Diane Dearmore is the Executive Director for the Institute for Ecotourism. The Institute for Ecotourism is a community resource that promotes environmentally sensitive travel and tourism as a means to educate, inspire and inform travelers about the region’s precious natural environment and its cultural treasures.
What is Ecotourism? The term “eco-tourism” describes the growing trend among travelers who want to have a direct, eco-friendly experience of the natural environment, culture and history of the places they visit. Ecotourism also educates and involves the traveler in experiences related to recycling, water conservation, waste management and energy efficiency through hospitality providers.
For more information visit the website: http://www.ioet.org/
Mark Easton is the Executive Director of Facilities and also serves as the chair for the Sustainability Task Force.
I am the Executive Director for Facilities at Coconino Community College and have been serving in this position for 14 plus years. I have been in the facilities management and the building construction field for over 30 years, with special interest in heating, air conditioning, indoor air quality and building structures. As an associate faculty at Gateway Community College in Phoenix, Arizona and Coconino Community College, I instructed classes in heating and air conditioning, building codes and other areas related to the construction industry.
With knowledge in both construction and facilities management, I bring hands-on experience in a broad spectrum of areas within commercial building, energy management projects and sustainability. I have attended seminars on Certification for Energy Management and Creating a Sustainable Energy Program through the Association of Energy Engineers, as well as classes on indoor air quality and waste management. Working with numerous architectural firms, I have been a key player in the design of energy efficient and sustainable educational facilities. I am currently serving as chair for the Sustainability Task Force committee at Coconino Community College.
My philosophy on sustainability is of a practical approach. Not every organization can afford to construct new buildings, install a photovoltaic field or a wind generator. However, all organizations can in someway contribute to the sustainable effort; even if it’s only the installation of compact florescent lighting, recycling efforts or installation of low flow water saving devices throughout their facility. Each organization must balance their financial abilities and their institutional strategic goals to help determine what their sustainable plan will consist of.
Kathy Farretta is the Assistant Manager at Riordan Mansion State Historic Park. She "wears many hats," serving as tour guide, volunteer coordinator, gift shop manager, special events coordinator, and, of course, historian and housekeeper! In December 2004 she received an M.A. in history from Northern Arizona University. Her thesis topic was "Progressive Era Community Builders: The Riordan Family in Flagstaff, Arizona, 1884-1904."
As an historian she is accustomed to looking at human cultures through a long view. When she surveys the world as it currently is evolving, she is concerned that if we do not make immediate and substantial changes to the way we see our role in the world, we will not have much time ahead.
Paul Holbrook is a current faculty member and department chair in Business, Education and Development at Coconino Community College for the past 8 years. He teaches economics, accounting and leadership. Paul has been actively involved in integrating sustainable practices over the past 30 years. For years he has challenged students to understand the environmental impacts of the marketplace.
Cynthia Pardo, a current Coconino Community College student, is the President of our CCC Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society chapter and member of the CCC Sustainability Task Force. She has been in Flagstaff and studying at CCC for the past 3 years. She is an Environmental Studies major. Cynthia hopes to influence positive environmental change in our world through activism, communication, education and in her career with an Environmental Studies background.
Ellen Ryan serves as the Water Conservation Manager for the City of Flagstaff. She has lived in Flagstaff for 20 years. Ellen began her interest in conservation of resources while at Arcosanti as a concrete construction crew leader. She has worked on various efforts in Flagstaff including: recycling education, composting, and water conservation. Green building and solar cooking are her interests as well.
Debbie Holbrook, Facilitator for Focus the Nation
Debbie Holbrook is the library coordinator at Coconino Community College. She collects sustainability resources for faculty to utilize in the classroom. She has been with CCC since 1999. She also serves on the Sustainability Task Force and assisted with planning for the Teaching & Learning Conference in August 2007 highlighting sustainable initiatives in higher education.
“This Focus the Nation initiative is an opportunity for the community to come together to learn more about global warming,” said Information Resources and Library Services Coordinator and faciliator for Focus the Nation events, Debbie Holbrook. “Bringing diverse perspectives and viewpoints allow for critical thinking and problem solving skills, which can benefit our local and global community. These discussion sessions highlight the mission of the Sustainability Task Force to encourage our community in learning, living and working sustainably.”