University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
PAE-1: Sustainability Coordination

The Twin Cities Sustainability Committee is charged with planning, implementing, and reporting campus wide sustainability efforts in teaching, outreach, research, and operations. Some roles of the committee include: leading completion of STARS, leading the development of a Climate Action Plan, and developing a living laboratory process.

Mike Berthelsen, Associate Vice President and Committee Co-Chair, Facilities Management; Emily Hoover, Professor, Head, and Committee Co-Chair, Department of Horticultural Science; Todd Arnold, Associate Professor, Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, & Conservation Biology; Nick Deffley, Program Manager, Contracting Documental, Sustainability, and Targeted Business Group, Capital Planning & Project Management; Jim Green, Assistant Directory, Energy Management, Facilities Management; Raymond Hozalski, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Civil Engineering; Cindy McComas, Director, Minnesota Technical Assistance Program; Heather Mentgen Dickson, Marketing Manager, University Dining Services; Beth Mercer Taylor, Education Sustainability Coordinator, Institute on the Environment; Ned Mohan, Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering; Lance Neckar, Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture; Christy Newell, Undergraduate, Environmental Science and Policy Management; Andrew Phelan, Assistant Director, Department of Environmental Health & Safety; William K. Roberts, Associate Director, Parking and Transportation; Amy Short, Sustainability Coordinator, University Services; Virajita Singh, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Sustainable Building Research; Tim Smith, Associate Professor Bioproducts/Biosystems Engineering and Director of the Northstar Initiative for Sustainable Enterprise at the Institute on the Environment; Deb Swackhamer, Charles M. Denny Chair of Science, Technology, and Public Policy, Humphrey and Professor Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Co-director Water Resources Center; Brian Swanson, Budget Officer, Office of Budget & Finanace Connie Thompson, Assistant Director, Housing and Residential Life; George Weiblen, Associate Professor, Department of Plant Biology; Amelious Whyte, Chief of Staff, Office for Student Affairs; Donovan Woldt, Undergraduate, Aerospace Engineering and IT student group representative to MSA; Nick Deffley, Program Manager, Capital Planning and Project Management; Ryan Kennedy, Graduate Student in Public Policy and representative to GAPSA

The Sustainability Office is housed in the office of University Services. It employs two full time staff and two undergraduate students. The office provides support for the sustainability committees at the University, works to communicate sustainability efforts to the public through events and communications, and coordinates sustainability programs and initiatives across campus. In addition, a Sustainability Education Coordinator is employed through the Institute on the Environment.

The Director of Sustainability works with committees and campus sustainability coordinators to develop a cohesive and organized approach to long and short-term sustainability and environmental stewardship initiatives across the university system. The Twin Cities Campus Coordinator organizes, supports, and advances existing and emerging sustainability programs and initiatives on the Twin Cities campus of the University of Minnesota, with a specific focus on operations and service activities.