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Commission Members and Subcommittees


Co-Chairs:
Kristi Hannam, Associate Professor of Biology 
Craig Ross, Business Manager, Facilities Services

Christopher Annala, Associate Professor, School of Business
Dori Farthing, Assistant Professor, Geological Sciences
Colleen Garrity, Assistant Professor, Geography
Kevin Hahn, Assistant Director of College Housing
Enrico Johnson, Assistant Provost
Laura Kenyon, Web Communications Manager
Jordan Kleiman, Assistant Professor, History
Angela Klinczar, Student Intern
Bethany Kwarta, Student Intern
Paul McLaughlin, Assistant Professor, Sociology
Darlene Necaster, Environmental Health & Safety Officer
David Norton, Project Manager, Facilities Planning
Leigh O'Brien, Professor, School of Education
Rebecca Stewart, Marketing Coordinator, CAS
Nik Varrone, Technical Support Professional, CIT
Nathan Wiley, Head Women's Soccer Coach

 


SubCommittees

Academics & Co-curricular

• Charge: Create an Action plan to make climate neutrality and sustainability a part of the curriculum and other educational experience for all students and other members of the community.  Bring policy recommendations to the Task Force
Members: Enrico Johnson (Chair)

Budget & Finance Subcommittee

• Charge: approve expenditures from the Task Force’s account when action is needed in between Task Force meetings.  Recommend an action plan for use of Task Force budget.
Members: Kristi Hannam, Craig Ross and chairs of subcommittees. 

Campus Operations

• Charge:  Set interim targets for goals and actions that will lead to climate neutrality, initiate actions to expand research or other efforts necessary to achieve climate neutrality by addressing the fume hood issue, investigating and LED light initiative, and bringing policy recommendations to the Task Force
 Member:  David Norton

CAS Services

• Charge:  Coordinate the College’s participation in Recyclemania, and initiate actions to expand research or other efforts necessary to achieve climate neutrality.  Bring policy recommendations to the Task Force
Members: Becky Stewart (Chair)

Climate Impact & Monitoring

• Charge: Conduct inventory/monitoring of GHG emissions (PCC), set a target date for achieving climate neutrality as soon as possible, and set interim targets for goals and actions that will lead to climate neutrality, bring policy recommendations to the Task Force.
Member:  Craig Ross (Chair)

P.R. & Campus & Community Engagement

• Charge:  Create mechanisms for tracking progress on goals/actions (particularly through the website), & increase education/awareness/action on Sustainability issues across the campus community.  Increase profile of, readability, & information on Sustanability webpage (incl. dashboards)
Members: Kristi Hannam

Programming Subcommittee

• Charge:  Create an action plan to make climate neutrality and sustainability a regular part of campus events (Live Green, Earth Day, Campus Sustainability Speakers Series)  and introduce a sustainability focus to volunteer activities and other student activities.
 Members: Dori Farthing (Chair)