Designing a Path to a Carbon-Free Campus

If the path to becoming a carbon-neutral campus were easy, we would have done it already. How can we stimulate creative and innovative solutions by knocking down barriers while making sure we’re still aimed towards the right end goal?

To celebrate Earth Day, the Hive is partnering with Carrot, an innovation cultivator, to think about campus climate-neutrality pledges through the lens of incentivized challenges. In this workshop, you will learn about current barriers, tradeoffs, and market failures standing in the way of colleges such as ours reaching their carbon goals. You will team with peers to design your own competitions that incentivize the outcomes you want.

All members of the Claremont Colleges community are welcome! Anne Eisele (Director of Project & Energy Management, Pomona), Alexis Reyes (Assistant Director of Sustainability, Pomona), and Dwight Whitaker (member of President’s Advisory Committee on Sustainability, Pomona) will be in the room to provide context about carbon at the 5C’s and answer questions about where we are so far.

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What is the Hive?
The purpose of the Rick and Susan Sontag Center for Collaborative Creativity (The Hive) is to accelerate the creative development of students across the 5Cs. We do that through Exploration – by creating a safe space to experiment and play, Collaboration – by bringing people with diverse backgrounds and perspectives together to be in the “intellectual muck” together, and through Experiential Learning – thinking by doing.

What is Carrot?
Carrot inspires young innovators through engaging challenges that ask participants to use science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics to solve some of the world’s biggest problems. Carrot believes in the power of competition to stimulate learning, creativity, and innovation. Their programs reward dynamic thinking, perseverance, cooperation, and ingenuity.