The *draft* purpose for the 2009 Earth Summit is:
- To serve as an active and open sustainability forum to create attainable and measurable goals for next year and beyond, as well as nurture and forward existing campus efforts;
- To produce an action oriented ‘Blueprint for a Sustainable Campus’ to inspire and inform subsequent working groups to help UCSC continue to implement socially, economically, and ecologically healthy practices on our campus;
- To reflect on UCSC’s sustainability successes and to identify challenges in order to assess new opportunities, and offer practical solutions that are accessible to the campus and community;
- To find new and innovative ways to interact and collaborate within our own community and with those communities that impact and surround us.