Empower Students, Empower the World

Our Mission:

Green Tower Sustainability’s (GTS), mission is to provide free virtual consulting services, resources and leadership training to environmentally and socially progressive student groups on college campuses around the world. Using a business framework, GTS’s team of experts provide key resources to enable student organizations to be effective change agents for sustainability. GTS is a project of Green2Gold and the Environmental Education Group.

Join the GTS Network Today!!!

Become a GTS Member: to receive GTS’s FREE services
Become a GTS Mentor: to help other student organizations

Some of the Free Services We Provide:

  • Access to our network of GTS Mentors (former student sustainability leaders) who mentor and provide resources to current student leaders
  • Merchandising & fundraising strategies
  • Project and event support from planning to implementation
  • Marketing and website assistance
  • Leadership coaching
  • Tutorials on how to develop a compelling business case for sustainability
  • Effective campus networking and coalition building strategies
  • Workshops, webinars, and leadership retreats
  • Access to the Student Organization Resource Center (and much more)

Mentor of the Month: Alison Erlenbach

Alison is Green Tower Sustainability’s first mentor of the month!  Alison has participated in several mentor calls both in the USA and abroad, assisting students in areas related to Green Fees, Green House Gas Monitoring, Climate Action Planning, and more.  She sits on the Green Tower Sustainability board of directors and is president of Campus Climate Solutions, a company dedicated to promoting sustainability through green training and strategic sustainability consulting services.  Alison was specifically chosen to be mentor of the month due to positive feedback from a GTS member, at SunyIT in New York.  This member, indicated that Alison had been instrumental in helping conduct their campus’s GHG assessment, to provide baseline data that will eventually lead to the first Climate Action Plan at SunyIT.   Alison exemplified the member-mentor relationship, which extends beyond mentor calls and is ongoing.  Thank you Alison for your continued service to GTS and sustainable college students around the world!

Current Initiatives

2011 Roundtable Discussions:

 

What is a roundtable discussion?  A roundtable discussion is a monthly support call that lasts an hour and a half and which is geared to assist sustainability student leaders in one particular project area.  Roundtable topics will include GHG Inventories, Climate Action planning, Improving Recycling Systems, Sustainable Events, and more!  We will also hold a monthly roundtable call to provide general organizational strategic advice and troubleshooting.  Click here to learn more and here to see the roundtable schedule

GTS Metrics:

GTS has mentored college students since June 2010 and has been carefully collecting metrics.  Click here to see our metrics page, which is always being updated.  We are working very hard to attain grant funding so we don’t have to charge students for our services.   We depend on donations of those who believe that students current college students are the future leaders.  GTS is working hard to help make tomorrow’s change agents more effective first on campus and later in the “real world”.  Your donation will enable GTS to dramatically expand their services to students, which are currently limited due to lack of funding.  Look to the top right of this page for the “donate now” pay-pal button.

Click here: to see member testimonials and community support of GTS.

College students are working tirelessly to make their campuses and communities more sustainable in a number of ways.   Green Tower Sustainability is the only organization of it’s kind, working to maximize the efforts of student sustainability leaders around the world who are indeed the change agents of tomorrow.”

      -Hunter Lovins (Author of Climate Capitalism and President of Natural Capitalism Solutions)

 

 

To find out more information contact Green Tower Sustainability at (949) 208-1566 (Office hours m-sun 10 am until 5 pm Pacific Time) or email us at greentowersustainability@gmail.com.