| Overall Rating | Gold - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 66.49 |
| Liaison | Ezra Small |
| Submission Date | July 29, 2011 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
University of Massachusetts Amherst
PAE-1: Sustainability Coordination
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
3.00 / 3.00 |
Claire
Hopkins Student Sustainability Coordinator Physical Plant |
Does the institution have a sustainability committee?:
The charter or mission statement of the committee or a brief description of the committee's purview and activities :
EPAC helps to assess ways to reduce environmental impacts of the campus in a manner which incorporates sound business practices. One of EPAC's goals is to enhance the campus' ability to gather, track, and analyze environmental performance data and related information and develop report documents.
Another goal is to devise a comprehensive and common-sense way to foster environmental stewardship across the entire organization among and within campus departments, both operational and academic. EPAC advises the Chancellor's Executive Board on all matters related to campus environmental performance including adjustments to operating policies and/or practices. EPAC helped create UMass's climate action plan that will have UMass carbon neutral by 2050.
Members of the committee, including affiliations:
Glenn Barrington
Assistant Transit Manager
Jim Cahill
Director, Facilities Planning
Scott Civjan
Associate Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Patrick Daly
EPAC Chair and Director, Physical Plant
Amber Hewett
SGA's Secretary of Sustainability
Nell Finnigan
Eco-Rep Program Manager
Steve Goodwin
Dean of the Natural
Sciences College
Susanne Hale
Grad Student Representative
Ted Mone
Associate Director of Housing and Residence Life for Operations
Craig Ruberti
EH&S Manager,
Central Heating Plant
Stephen Schreiber
Professor, Chair of the Campus Physical Planning Committee
Josh Stoffel
Sustainability Coordinator
Claire Hopkins
Student Sustainability Coordinator
Ken Toong
Executive Director of Food Services
Sharon Tracey
Associate Director of The Environmental Institute
Loren Walker
Assoc. Director of Research Liaison and Development
Terri Bechta
Assistant Director of Environmental Hazardous Materials Program
The website URL where information about the sustainability committee is available:
Does the institution have a sustainability office?:
A brief description of the sustainability office:
The number of people employed in the sustainability office:
The website URL where information about the sustainability office is available:
Does the institution have a sustainability coordinator?:
Sustainability coordinator's name:
Sustainability coordinator's position title:
A brief description of the sustainability coordinator’s position:
Our campus hired its first sustainability coordinator in 2009. The coordinator liaises with the Campus Sustainability Initiative, with the Academic Program Director for Sustainability, and with numerous departments for Physical Plant.
The website URL where information about the sustainability coordinator is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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