About Josh Van Lente

Josh Van Lente

GTS Mentor

Green Tower Sustainability

“Student organizations are the training grounds for leaders, where passion is discovered and progression originates.  Campuses are the ideal place to learn about sustainability and get your hand dirty while making a difference.”

-Josh Van Lente

Experience:

Josh Van Lente currently attends SDSU.   In the Enviro-Business Society at SDSU he served as CFO where he Helped raise funds for annual earth day celebration, establish a farmers’ market and implement a bike lane on campus.  Josh was also a Green Campus Intern where he conducted office energy audits, lighting retrofits, network power management (computer lab efficiency) and Vending Misers (motion sensors for vending machines).

Skills:

• Finance and accounting
• Implementing bike lane
• Energy Audits
• Green IT
• Green Vending Machines
• The finances of setting up a farmers’ market on campus.

How did you get involved in sustainability?
My passion for sustainability was sparked in a general ed. class that focused on current environmental issues.  The class opened my eyes to the disastrous events that are taking place around the country and world as a result of human activity.  I wanted to make a difference so I got involved with a student org.

Energy efficiency has become my niche area  interest within sustainability.  When I see inefficiencies that can be corrected I see dollar signs, and those are the things employers and administration like to see.

Other Projects and Organizational Affiliations

Cricket Wireless-Sustainability Intern

• Carpool program design
• Paper and Ink reduction strategy
• GHG inventory and reduction strategy
• Demand Response-Energy curtailment

“We are seeing the birth of a new perspective of the world, where ecology and economics are two sides of the same coin.”
- Leif Johansson