for SSCP KAN's Workshop in Annapolis, 2017

1. Dimitris Stevis, Ph.D., Professor, Political Science, CSU
Sonali Diddi, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Dept. of Design & Merchandising, CSU
Craig Starger, Ph.D. Research Enabling Lead, Future Earth – Colorado Hub

2. COLORADO
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3. School of Global Environmental Sustainability
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Research Focal Areas
 Climate Change and Energy
 Food Security
 Environmental Institutions and Governance
 Sustainable Communities
 Land and Water Resources
 Biodiversity, Conservation, and Management

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 Sustainability Leadership Fellows – PhD students/Post-Docs
 Resident Fellows – Individual CSU Faculty
 Global Challenges Research Teams – Interdisciplinary Teams, CSU
 Visiting Fellows – Faculty Scholars from around the world
 Conservation Development – Working Group
 Environmental Justice @CSU – Working Group
 Africa Center
 Global Biodiversity Center
 Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative – CSU, Netherlands Institute of
Ecology, The University of Manchester, ETH-Zurich, European
Commission – Joint Research Center / Node
 Future Earth
School of Global Environmental Sustainability

5. Where ae we coming from? - DIMITRIS
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 Environmental/socio-ecological justice
 Origins and composition of EJWG CSU
 Activities
 Hopes
 Work, workplaces and environment
 Labor environmentalism/environmental unionism
 Adapting Canadian Work and Workplaces

6. Multidisciplinarity Just transitions Just futures
Themes of Symposium

9. Where are we coming from? - SONALI
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Consumption
 Drivers and solutions to socially and environmentally
unsustainable consumption behavior (e.g. Demographic
shifts, Migration, Culture, Values)
 Individual and collective behavior with global environmental
change
Production
 Human well-being – social & environmental
 Interaction of biophysical, ecological, economic and social
factors in the future towards sustainable development in the
textiles and clothing industry
 New business models, alternate methods of production
 Shared Economy and Circular Economy

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12. Who is RESPONSIBLE?
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What do WE do to DISCARD clothes, shoes and accessories that we don’t need?
 Somebody will buy
 Someone will wear
 May be exported to countries
where other people can wear

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JUST LOCAL EXAMPLE!!!
Denver Waste Materials
- 90,000 pounds of denim
- 35,000 pounds of cotton/acrylic sweaters
in the LANDFILL
A TOTAL of
350,000 lbs.
into landfill
EVERY year

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ONLY about 1/5 of the clothing donated to
charities is directly used or sold in thrift shops or exported to other countries
a) lack of use or demand in local communities and
b) no export value of these donated goods
c) changing consumer demands,
d) a need to follow current fashion trends, and
e) abundance of cheap and affordable clothing.

16. Global Challenges Research Team 2016-17, 2017-18
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GCRT 2016-17
[Over]Consumption: The Culprit Causing an
Environmental Crisis in Your Closet
GCRT 2017-18
Clothing & Sustainability: Policy Implications through
Structured Public Deliberation

17. Global Challenges Research Team 2016-17, 2017-18
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Name Title Department College
Sonali Diddi Ph.D. (PI) Asst. Professor Design & Merchandising CHHS
Terry Yan Ph.D. (Co-PI) Associate Professor Design & Merchandising CHHS
Brittany Bloodhart Ph.D. (Co-PI) Post-doc
Atmospheric Science &
Psychology
CENG &
CLA
Vickie Bajtelsmit Ph.D. (Co-PI) Professor Finance CBUS
Katie McShane Ph.D. (Co-PI) Associate Professor Philosophy CLA
Susan Opp Ph.D. (Co-PI) Associate Professor Political Science CLA
Martin Carcassan Ph.D. (Co-PI) Professor Communication Studies CLA
Kelly Martin Ph.D. (Co-PI) Associate Professor Marketing CBUS
Katharine Leigh Ph.D. (Co-PI) Professor Design & Merchandising CHHS
Center for Public Deliberation Collaborator CLA

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Prof. Hans Otto von Busch, Ph. D.
Integrated Design

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Event - @clothesinmycloset.csu
27 Majors
118 Instagram Posts

20. Where are we coming from? - CRAIG
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 Marine biologist - advance science for biodiversity
conservation and sustainable development.
 Coral reef conservation biology - corals’ adaptive
response to climate change, coral recovery, and coral
population connectivity with a focus on Southeast Asia.
 AAAS Overseas Fellow at USAID’s Regional
Development Mission for Asia (RDMA) in Bangkok
 Led the design and procurement of the Oceans and
Fisheries Partnership which is now the US Government’s
largest investment in combatting illegal, unreported and
unregulated fishing overseas.

21. What happens when THREE of us come together?
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22. Roundtable – SSCP@CSU
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Aim
 To build a network of stakeholders at a local level to
address systems of SSCP.
 To exchange information between global KAN
developments to local SSCP “chapter” (vice-versa)
and facilitate working groups based on common
group interests.
 To identify local, national and international funding
opportunities to facilitate research, education and
outreach of SSCP knowledge.

23. Where are we going?
 Organizationally
 Node along Front Range
 Bring together people from various disciplines and issue areas
 Bring together people from broader community
 Challenge: which disciplines/issues/stakeholders –given
where we are located

24. How?
 Strategic Roundtables
 Academics
 Practitioners
 Government
 Creation of a small but diverse (disciplines and
origins) team
 Pursuit of internal opportunities that will give us 1-2
years to build a FR team and network that is
translocally connected.

25. Roundtable 1 & 2– SSCP@CSU
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 25 participants
 CSU departments – e.g. Geosciences, Civil
Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Geography,
Political Science, History, Sociology, Economics
 Public Lands History Center
 Practitioners – e.g. Crowd Conservation
 City of Fort Collins
 Future Earth

26. Challenges/tasks/directions
 Broadening consumption/production
 Beyond physical products
 Thinking of each act of production as also an act of
consumption and the other way around
 Placing PC across space and time with particular
attention to “policy chains or circuits”
 Green Transitions? Just Transitions?
 From the past
 Into the future

27. Expanding Production/Consumption

28. From Production/Consumption Linear Chains..

29. To Production/Consumption Circuits…

30. Production/Consumption Across Space

31. Just Transitions from the Past

32. Just Transitions Into the Future

33. CONSUMPTION + PRODUCTION
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 What are the PESTN forces which promote / enable
alternative methods of production and consumption in
Colorado?
 Identify examples of alternate methods of consumption
and production @local. What are the factors influencing
the adoption of such practices?
 What is the future that we want and how can it be
enabled? Compare and contrast cities/counties that are
close?
 Develop local case studies of companies and industries
that are successfully adapting to new shared economy.
 Research historical trends in local consumption and
production to predict future directions

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