Colorado Sustainability Summit
Speaker Bios
(Copies of many of our speakers’ PowerPoint presentations are available as downloadable PDFs.)

 

Kevin Alexander, Ph.D.
kalexander@western.edu
Department of Natural and Environmental Sciences
Western State College
Gunnison, CO 81231
(presentation)

Andrew Azman
azman@cu-biodiesel.org
CU Environmental Engineering student and Founder of CU Biodiesel
(presentation)

Andrew spearheaded a project during fall 2002 in which he built a 60 gallon biodiesel processor with a group of students for an engineering class. He also started CU biodiesel, a non-profit student group, in order to begin providing CU with biodiesel fuel for the campus “Buff Bus.”  Andrew, the CU Environmental Center and Boulder Biodiesel have been working together to begin a pilot project in which one bus will be run off the biodiesel made from the used campus cooking oil.

Sheela Backen
sbacken@users.fm.colostate.edu
Integrated Solid Waste Program Manager
Colorado State University
970-491-0113
(presentation)

I have been working with the Integrated Solid Waste Program at Colorado State University since July of 1997. I became the Program Manager in 1999. I am affiliated with the NRC, CURC, Colorado Association for Recycling, and several recycling committees that I helped to start at CSU. I have always tried to be environmentally responsible but never worked in this type of position until I started working at CSU. In fiscal year 2002 Colorado State University recycled 46.3% of the waste stream.

Jim Baily
James.baily@colorado.edu
Campus Planner Facilities Planning
University of Colorado Boulder
(presentation)

Jim Baily is the Campus Planner for the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he has been planning for 18 years. He is the primary author of the Campus Master Plan, finished two years ago in a process with more widespread involvement than in any official CU plan in memory. He works with campus departments to help them get better facilities, and also does campus infrastructure planning, especially transportation. He holds a Master of Urban Planning degree from the University of Washington and previously worked as a city and regional planner in Colorado, Oregon and Ohio.

Jenny Barker
jlbarker@fortlewis.edu
Student, Recycling Program Coordinator
Fort Lewis College

Lisa Barlow
Lisa.Barlow@colorado.edu

Lisa is a Senior Instructor in the Baker Residential Academic Program for the Natural Sciences and Environmental Studies, and in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She holds a BA in Geology from Smith College (cum laude), and MS and PhD in Geological Sciences from the University of Colorado. In between degrees, she worked as a Geologist in the petroleum industry for companies including AMOCO and CONOCO. Realizing that Corporate America did not fit her personal values, she pursued a PhD with the intention of teaching for the undergraduate level. She teaches courses in physical geology, earth system science, and environmental studies. Her environmental interests lie in the collective impact of individual citizen actions and their power to make our environment a better place to live. Her particular path is through education and personal action. She lives in Longmont, Colorado with her husband and two children.

Lee Boughey
Lee.boughey@nrel.gov
Stakeholder Liaison, National Renewable Energy Lab
(presentation)

Lee Boughey serves as the Stakeholder Partnerships Manager for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado. NREL is the nation’s premier laboratory for renewable energy research & development and a lead DOE lab for energy efficiency R&D. Lee works to develop strategic partnerships and alliances with corporate, government and non-profit interests and works extensively to increase the visibility of NREL’s critical energy mission.

Ghita Levenstein Carroll
levenste@stripe.colorado.edu
(presentation)

Ghita started working with the Environmental Center as Program Coordinator in January 2000. She spends most of her time working on energy related issues, which included the successful campaign to bring wind power to CU and a new campaign to reduce energy on campus called “Generation Green.” Ghita graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Madison with a B.S. in Sociology and certificates in Environmental Studies and Integrated Liberal Studies. She is currently a graduate student at the University of Colorado, Boulder working on a degree in Environmental Policy.

Scot Case
scot@newdream.org
(presentation 1, presentation 2)

Scot Caseis the director of procurement strategies at the Center for a New American Dream which is an organization that helps Americans consume in such a fashion as to protect the environment and enhance the quality of life. Scot works with government agencies, private companies, and academic institutions to develop creative and effective ways for them to use their purchasing power to increase the demand for environmentally preferable goods.

 
John Daggett
Colorado State University
(presentation)

Jack DeBell
debell@spot.colorado.edu
Recycling Director, CU-Boulder
(presentation)

Jack DeBell has nineteen years experience in waste reduction and recycling. He was elected to the National Recycling Coalition’s Board of Directors in 1991 and continues to assist their College and University Recycling Council. Prior to his position on the NRC Board, he was appointed Technical Advisor to the EPA’s Peer Match program. He has assisted over 40 colleges and universities in the design or expansion of their programs.

He has directed the University of Colorado’s recycling program as a State employee since 1985. His accomplishments include teaching a certification and internship program for students interested in recycling careers, publishing a Decision Makers Guide to Recycling, and overseeing C.U.’s solid waste management plan. He was recognized with the University’s highest staff honor, the Robert Sterns Award, in 1997

With Mr. DeBell’s assistance, C.U. Recycling has gained widespread recognition including Colorado’s Recycler of the Year in 1988, the EPA’s Pollution Prevention Award in 1992, the National Recycler of the Year award for Outstanding School Recycling Program in 1995, and most recently, the Office of Federal Environmental Executive’s Model Campus Recycling Program award in 1999.

Caroll Dollard P.E. CEM
cdollard@users.fm.colostate.edu
Utility Engineer
(presentation)

Currently she is a Utility Engineer for Facilities Management at Colorado State University. Her work experience includes the design, construction and maintenance of utility systems, energy conservation as applied to both buildings and utility systems, and solar energy research and applications (both solar thermal and photovoltaics). She has performed over 100 commercial & industrial energy audits. She is also an adjunct professor teaching plumbing, HVAC and electrical systems to construction management students at Colorado State.

Carrol has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Colorado State University

John DiBiaggio

John DiBiaggio was named President Emeritus on September 1, 2001, after having served as the eleventh president of Tufts University from August 1, 1992 to 2001. Prior to that appointment, he served as president of Michigan State University from 1985 to 1992, and as president of the University of Connecticut from 1979 to 1985. In addition, he has served as vice president for health affairs and executive director of the Medical Center at the University of Connecticut, as dean of the Dental School at Virginia Commonwealth University, and as assistant dean of the Dental School at the University of Kentucky. He is currently a Scholar in Residence at Harvard University.

Among his achievements at Tufts was the establishment of the University College of Citizenship and Public Service, which integrates the theory and application of active citizenship in courses throughout Tufts’ undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. Within the college, he participated in the teaching of an annual course on leadership, which utilized as guest lecturers leaders in business, volunteer agencies, and government. He also spearheaded the completion of a strategic plan for the university that sets a course and vision for the beginning of the new century, positioning Tufts at the forefront of institutions of higher education.

In 1994, under his leadership, the university launched the Tufts Tomorrow Campaign, with an original fundraising target of $400 million. In 1999, having met that goal, the campaign was extended to $600 million with a scheduled conclusion in 2002, the year of Tufts’ sesquicentennial.

The university’s advancement under Dr. DiBiaggio’s leadership is reflected in its increased selectivity, its expanded physical plant, and the impressive quality of its undergraduate, graduate and professional students and faculty.

Dr. DiBiaggio holds three earned degrees and 13 honorary degrees, and has been recognized by numerous honorary societies. He is the recipient of many distinguished awards and is the author of over 100 publications.

As one who has held a lifelong commitment to volunteering, Dr. DiBiaggio has served as chairman of the boards of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges and the American Council on Education, as chairman of the National Campus Compact, on the boards of the American Film Institute, the NCAA Foundation, and the blue ribbon Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics. He is a member of the Commission on the International Exchange of Scholars, and serves on the Board of the American Cancer Society Foundation of which he was president from 1998 to 2001. He is also a director of the KAMAN Corporation and of the national American Automobile Association

Dr. DiBiaggio is married to the former Nancy Cronemiller and has three children, David, Dana, and Deirdre. His hobbies include antique cars, golf and skiing.

Brian Dunbar
dunbar@CAHS.colostate.edu
970-491-5041
(presentation)

Brian Dunbar is director of the Institute for the Built Environment (IBE) and faculty member in Construction Management at Colorado State University. Professor Dunbar holds a bachelors and a masters degree in architecture from the University of Michigan. He has 18 years of teaching and research experience coupled with 7 years of professional practice. Brian’s teaching, research publications, and project work focuses on environmentally sustainable design and construction materials, methods, and systems. Through IBE, Brian has guided sustainable charrettes, National Park Service conferences, LEED building projects, graduate courses and thesis work on green building, and the Maho Bay Sustainable Building courses and charrettes on St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands.

David Eagan
djeagan@wiscmail.wisc.edu
(presentation 1, presentation 2)

David J. Eagan is a research assistant in the Botany Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has been active in the campus greening movement since 1992 when he co-edited The Campus and Environmental Responsibility with David Orr, one of the first publications on this topic. For five semesters In the mid-1990s, he taught an environmental studies capstone course at UW-Madison in which students conducted applied, campus-focused research projects. He has collaborated with the Campus Ecology program (of the National Wildlife Federation) on several occasions, co-authoring Green Investment, Green Return in 1998, and most recently writing and editing their Spring 2002 newsletter. LIving in Madison, David also is a bike commuter, native plants gardener, freelance writer, Scout leader and folk musician.

Greg Fisher
greg.fisher@colorado.edu
(presentation)

Greg Fisher is a Certified Econonomic Developer and the founder and former director of the State of Arizona’s highly successful Environmental Business Development Program that brought over $100 million in sustainable green industry to Arizona between 1995 and 1998. After several years managing projects in the high technology industries in Colorado and Europe he recently joined the University of Colorado as Planning Administrator in the CU Parking and Transportation Division. He is currently managing CU’s landmark Parking and Transportation Master Planning process designed to analyze and plan for campus mobility needs through 2018. In his first six months of CU employment he organized an effort to upgrade over 1,000 bicycle parking spaces on the campus, and will continue to focus on developing efficient and green approaches to multi-modal transportation development.

Colby Graham
comex@colorado.edu
(presentation)

Colby Graham, the coordinator of the Colorado Materials Exchange, is a Vista Volunteer. He has spent the last year working on the Computer Reuse and Recycling Project, and will finish his Vista service at the end of April. Originally from Ohio, Colby received a BA in English from Ohio State University. He is a Colorado resident and has a wonderful dog named Adin.

 

Jacquie Guerrero
jguerrer@lamar.colostate.edu
Office Manager, Edwards Hall
Colorado State University
970-491-5854 

Jacquie Guerrero, Office Manager of Edwards Hall and a founding member of the Colorado State University Recycle Committee for the residence hall system. Member of the Colorado Association for Recycling,  NRC and numerous University and community groups.

I look forward to continue to be a University leader for a sustainable future by promoting activities on campus that are ecologically sound, socially just, economically viable and humane that will continue for generations to come which is Colorado State University’s commitment to the Tallories Declaration.

Karen Jenkins & Jacquie Guerrero are the recipients of the 2003 Campus Sustainability Awards Ð for getting recycling bins placed in every room of all 10 residence halls on campus.

Spense Havlick
(presentation)

Spense Havlick is professor emeritus in the College of Architecture and Planning at the University of Colorado. His research interests focus on sustainable communities, automobile dependence, and bicycle and pedestrian planning. He is currently working with Will on a new book titled Transportation and the Ivory Tower: Sustainable Mobility for University Communities.

Walt Hecox
Whecox@ColoradoCollege.edu
Web site
Working Group for Campus Sustainability
Economics Department
Colorado College
14 E. Cache La Poudre Street
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
719-389-6413
719-389-6927 (fax)
(presentation)

Walter E. Hecox, who received his Ph.D. from Syracuse University (1969), is Professor of Economics at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado where he specializes in courses and research related to international economics issues as well as regional resource and sustainable development questions. His background includes:

• Election to Phi Beta Kappa; recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to do research in Pakistan (1964-65)
• Designation as a National Defense Education Act Fellow at Syracuse University (1965-68)
• Selection as Project Director for a National Science Foundation Faculty Curriculum Project (1975 & 1976)
• Recipient of a Senior Fulbright Teaching Fellowship in Pakistan (1976-77)
• Staff advisor and Project Supervisor for the Executive Director, Colorado Department of Natural Resources (June, 1979 - July, 1981)
• Visiting Scientist, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (September, 1981)
• Trade and Tariff Policy Advisor to Government of Kenya under World Bank auspices (1982-1984)
• Short-term consultant to numerous national governments, bilateral agencies and multilateral groups in Africa and Asia
• Senior Fellow, Grand Canyon Trust (1994-1997)
• Board Member, Colorado Plateau Forum (academic rep)

Professor Hecox has managed and performed research for the World Bank, U.S. Agency for International Development, Southern African Development Coordination Conference, U.S. Military Academy, Ford Foundation, National Science Foundation and U.S. Department of Energy.

His teaching has focused for 3 decades on intensive learning for undergraduates in seminar-style courses. Awards recognizing this teaching include Colorado College Sidney Winter Award for teaching competence & effectiveness: 1975/76, 1989/90 & 1996/97, Student Body Selected Teacher of the Year 1997/98 and Outstanding Academic Advisor as well as Teacher of the Year 1999/00 and college-wide David Packard Endowed Professor 2001-2004. He has shared teaching techniques through the campus Teaching and Learning Center and consulted with other faculty about adopting techniques found effective.

Bill Hillen
Hillen Corp.

Susan Innis
Green Marketing Program Director
Land and Water Fund of the Rockies
Boulder, Colorado
(presentation)

Ms. Innis works with stakeholders in the Rocky Mountain region to develop and implement renewable energy policies and community-based marketing strategies to build demand for clean energy. She sits on the National Green Pricing Accreditation Board and the Steering Committee of the National Wind Coordinating Committee. Prior to joining the LAW Fund in 1999, Ms. Innis worked as an Urban Park Ranger in New York City and as a researcher with an international seahorse conservation organization. She has a B.Sc. in biology from McGill University.

 

Karen Jenkins
jenkins@lamar.colostate.edu
Custodial Supervisor of the Expanded Student Employment Program
Colorado State University
970-491-1344

I have been on campus since 1984. Custodial Supervisor for the Southside Complex at Colorado State University, which consists of  Edwards and Ingersoll Halls. Member of the Colorado Association for Recycling, NRC and the  CSU Recycling Committee. Certified HASMAT Training and a  Hazardous Chemical and Safety in the Workplace Instructor.

I have worked very closely with the Department of Housing and Food Services to work towards safety with regard to chemicals used for cleaning. We are in a transition period with the focus of converting to environment and user friendly products. “Total Sustainability” must be the goal of all to protect the future of our planet.

David Johnston
david@whatsworking.com
(presentation)

David Johnston, leader in the US green building industry, is president of What’s Working, an international design and consulting firm, specializing in environmental construction technology. He was the founder of the Passive Solar Industries Council in Washington, DC. As president of Lightworks Construction, Remodeling Magazine named him one of the top 50 contractors in the country. The National Association of Home Builder’s Press published his book, Building Green in a Black and White World. He works internationally using his unique approach to harmonize the built environment with local ecology, using culturally and contextually appropriate technology. He is currently consulting in the San Francisco Bay Area developing a regional green building program.

 

Larry Kinney
(presentation)

Larry Kinney is Senior Researcher with the Southwest Energy Efficiency Project, where he is responsible for the assessment of building energy use, codes and standards, and energy conservation program planning and evaluation. Active in energy conservation-related research for almost 30 years, he has broad experience in weatherization program operations, energy-efficient refrigeration, lighting and daylighting technologies, air handling and conditioning systems, and controls. Dr. Kinney also has experience in energy efficiency program evaluation, from instrumentation design and analysis to policy research.

Prior to joining SWEEP’s staff in the summer of 2002, Dr. Kinney was a Research Manager with the Technology Assessment Group, and Senior Consultant with the Consulting Group of E SOURCE, an energy research and information company based in Boulder, Colorado. While at E SOURCE, he was the Director of two projects which assessed energy conserving options in the new commercial building sector in California. He also conducted research in building energy-use simulation, daylighting, refrigeration, HVAC systems, radiant cooling, solar-driven stirling engines, electric safety devices, and heat pump water heating.

Before joining E SOURCE, Dr. Kinney served as president of Synertech Systems Corporation, an energy systems RD&D firm based in Syracuse, New York. While at Synertech, he founded and published Energy Exchange, a national newsletter for energy and weatherization professionals, and participated in a number of evaluations of energy efficiency programs. Prior to co-founding Synertech in 1983, he was a Senior Research Fellow with the Syracuse Research Corporation, where he co-founded and directed the Corporation’s Energy Research Center.

Dr. Kinney did undergraduate work in Physics and Philosophy at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN and holds a PhD in Philosophy from Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY. He is the author of over 100 articles and reports and holds a U.S. Patent on an active daylighting system.

 

Yuri Koslen
yuri@naropa.edu
(presentation)

Yuri Koslenis the Transportation Administrator and currently as Director of Central Support Services at Naropa University, he has supervised the expansion and changed the way the university views transportation. This has been accomplished just working with the basic modes: biking, busing, walking, carpooling, and cars.

 

Neil Krauss
nkrauss@du.edu
Assistant to Vice-Chancellor for Business and Finance
University of Denver
303-871-4365

 

Paul Lander
bldrlander@yahoo.com
Water Conservation Specialist, City of Boulder

B.A. in Environmental Conservation, CU; Masters in Landscape Architecture, U. of Wash-Seattle; currently PhD-candidate in Geography at CU. Worked in energy, land, and water conservation since 1980. Worked for City of Boulder Water Quality and Environmental Services since 1992. Member of the American Society of Landscape Architects.

Heidi Loshbaugh, Ph. D.
hloshbau@mines.edu
Colorado School of Mines
303.384.2316

Heidi G. Loshbaugh teaches in the undergraduate engineering design program, Design EPICS, at Colorado School of Mines. Over the past 5 years, she has overseen a number of energy-related student projects. These include designing a hydro-generation station for a remote Alaskan resort, exploring bio-mass conversion to ethanol for a global chemical-engineering firm, and investigating electricity consumption to identify relationships between consumption and potential for improving the bottom line for Boston Market Corporation.

L. Hunter Lovins

L. Hunter Lovins, Esq., is the Director of the Natural Capitalism Group of The Global Academy. Trained as a lawyer, she has managed international non-profits, created several corporations, and is in great demand as a speaker and consultant. She holds BAs from Pitzer College (Political Studies and Sociology), a JD from Loyola University School of Law (Los Angeles) with the Alumni Award for Outstanding Service, and several honorary doctorates.

Her areas of interest and expertise include Natural Capitalism, globalization, governance, land management, energy, water, green real-estate development, and community economic development. She believes that individuals working together within a market context are the most dynamic problem-solving force that there is, and has devoted herself to creating and implementing practical affordable solutions to the problems facing life, by working with corporations, communities and citizens.

A member of the California Bar, she helped establish and was for six years Assistant Director of the California Conservation Project (Tree People), an innovative urban forestry and environmental education group. She served as Policy Advisor for Friends of the Earth, under David Brower. Named Henry R. Luce Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College, Hunter has also taught at dozens of other universities. In 1982 she founded Rocky Mountain Institute, a 50-person, research center with a $7 million annual budget, half of it earned through programmatic enterprise. Until 2002, when she left to join global academy, she was RMI’s CEO for Strategy. She serves as a Commissioner in the State of the World Forum’s Commission on Globalization. She was also named one of four people from North America to serve as a delegate to the United Nations Prep conference for Europe and North America for the Earth Summit conference. With Walter Link she is a Commissioner in the State of the World Forum’s Commission on Globalization, co-chaired by Mikhail Gorbachev, Jane Goodall, Jose Ramos-Horta, Vandana Shiva, George Soros and others. The commission explores how to resolve key issues on globalization.

Lovins has co-authored nine books and dozens of papers, and was featured in the award-winning film Lovins On the Soft Path. Her latest book, Natural Capitalism, co-authored with Amory Lovins and business author Paul Hawken, was released in September 1999 and has been translated into a dozen languages and was the subject of a Harvard Business Review summary. Recent articles by her have appeared in World Link, World Business Academy Review, American Prospect, and Los Angeles Times. She is now beginning work, with Walter Link, on a new book, The Human Dimensions of Natural Capitalism.

Lovins has consulted for governments and the private sector, briefing senior management at such groups as Interface, Bank of America, Allstate, Calvert Social Investment Fund, Royal Dutch/Shell Group, Interface, and numerous utility companies. Lovins’ public-sector clients have included the U.S. Defense Civil Preparedness Agency, Environmental Protection Agency, the Bonneville Power Administration, the Solar Energy Research Institute, and the German Federal Environment Agency. She has addressed such audiences as the U.S. Congress, The World Economic Forum at Davos, the Continental Congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the World’s Fair Energy Symposia, the Industrial Designers Society’s WorlDesign, the Epiphany service at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the State of the World Forum, Bioneers, the Global Economic Forum, the World Watch State of the World Conference and hundreds of conferences and college symposia. She has appeared on numerous television shows including “60 Minutes,” “Good Morning America,” Pat Robertson’s “700 Club,” “Merv Griffin,” Bill Moyers’ NOW and hundreds of news programs.

Lovins has served on the Boards of one government, two private corporations, and many public interest groups. She advises numerous companies and nonprofits, including GreenMountain.com. She was a founding director of RMI’s second for-profit spin-off, E source, until its 1999 sale for $18 million to the Financial Times group.

Bud McGrath
(presentation)

Bud McGrath has over 30 years experience in operations management, consulting, and business ownership in the United States, Great Britain and Mexico. He currently serves as Program Manager for the Environmental Business Assistance Program at the Colorado University Business Advancement Center and has been consulting with environmental companies exclusively since 1997.

Bud is very involved in the Denver business community as a member of the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce Membership and Environmental Councils, and on the board of directors for the Rockies Venture Club. He is a frequent speaker on business development and financing issues, and has received the prestigious Champion Award from the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce.

Mr. McGrath is founder of the Kelly Foundation, a non-profit organization assisting families that have children with disabilities, was a member of the State Task Force on Respite Care and was awarded the Jefferson County Community Service Award.

Paul Miller
pmiller@selway.umt.edu

Paul Miller, University of Montana PhD Candidate in Chemistry and Founder of Sustainable Systems LLC (DBA Montana Biodiesel)

Paul Miller, owner of Montana Biodiesel began processing biodiesel from the campus waste oil for the University of Montana’s Bio-Bus in 2002. He also started Sustainable Systems LLC, which is the parent company of Montana Biodiesel. They are a University of Montana-spawned research, development, and commercialization company with a focus on the development of innovative process techniques specifically designed for Montana oil seed commodities. In addition they are the first commercial biodiesel company in the State of Montana and are currently scaling up production to 10,000 gal per month.

Michael Martens
michael.martens@colorado.edu
Project Manager, Facilities Management, CU-Boulder

Rick Monaco

Rick Monaco, CDF is a Certified Director of School Facilities with 25 years experience in school facilities management. He is past President and Legislative Chairman of the New York State Association for Superintendents of School Buildings and Grounds that represents over 542 Public and Private School Districts Colleges and Universities. He is a former Vice President and founding member of the Board of Directors of the Healthy Schools Network and was appointed to and served on the New York State Board of Regents School Facilities Advisory Committee. Mr. Monaco has presented to many organizations and conferences, including; N.Y.S. Board of Regents, N.Y.S. Parent Teachers Association, N.Y.S. School Boards Association, N.Y.S. Environmental Advocates and The International Conference on School Indoor Air Quality, Washington, D.C. He has also presented Green Programs to the Ocala Florida school district, the University of Wisconsin at Madison and other environmental, educational and parent associations. His paper “Incorporating Prevention and Resolutions of Indoor Air Problems into the Regular Building and Grounds Programs of a School System” has been published in the Global Solutions Text in September 1997.

Mr. Monaco works to decrease the potential for toxic exposures in the school environment through The Ashkin Group. His role is to focus on pesticide reduction for interiors and exteriors, less toxic cleaning programs, Green product and equipment selection, preventive maintenance programs, and a variety of other precautions necessary to maintain a healthy working and learning environment. The Ashkin Group specializes in designing policies and programs that offer long term solutions to complex problems that educational facilities are faced with on a daily basis.

William Moomaw

William Moomaw is Professor of International Environmental Policy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, where he founded the International Environment and Resource Policy Program and co-founded the Global Development and Environment Institute. He is also Senior Director of the, interdisciplinary, university-wide, Tufts Institute of the Environment. He is a physical chemist, who works to translate science and technology into policy terms using interdisciplinary tools. He was a coordinating lead author of the Year 2001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change chapter on greenhouse gas emissions reduction, and has been a lead author of previous IPCC reports. He provides advice to fuels and power sector companies and governments on environmentally significant issues. He was the first director of the Climate Energy and Pollution program at the World Resources Institute, and directed the Center for Environmental Studies and taught chemistry at Williams College. As a Congressional Science Fellow, he worked on legislation that eliminated the use of CFCs to protect the ozone layer in a cost effective manner, and worked on energy and forestry legislation. Moomaw currently also serves on the Board of Directors of Earthwatch (a conservation research and education organization), Consensus Building Institute and Clean Air-Cool Planet (addressing climate change and air quality). He recently co-edited with Barbara Baudot a book on population and the environment entitled, People and their Planet: Searching for Balance, and with Lawrence Susskind of MIT and Kevin Gallagher, Transboundary Environmental Negotiations. He has also co-edited nine volumes of papers for the Program on Negotiations at Harvard Law School. He is currently working to develop an international reactive nitrogen pollution assessment program. He has also facilitated sessions with negotiators of international treaties, other diplomats and government, business and non-governmental representatives.

Robin Newsome-Suitts
newsomes@colorado.edu
Assistant to VC for Administration
(presentation 1, presentation 2)

Robin Newsome-Suitts is an Urban Planner by education, and Policy Assistant to the Vice Chancellor for Administration at CU-Boulder. Two years ago, when campus administration recognized the need to improve conservation efforts on the campus, Robin was chosen to work toward this end by chairing the Campus Resource Conservation Committee. During the last two years, she has used her organization skills to pare down what can be an overwhelming and comprehensive effort, into manageable tasks. In her policy role, she is now seeking to make formal, the changes in procedure and practice that are being enacted throughout campus facilities and departments.

 

Michael Rendon
rendon_m@fortlewis.edu
Fort Lewis College Environmental Center Coordinator

I am a 30 year-old Colorado Native and have been a Durango resident since 1994. I received a B.A. in Population Studies from Fort Lewis College in 2000, and am currently the Coordinator of the Fort Lewis College Environmental Center. Prior to the Environmental Center, I worked as a Counselor at the Volunteers of America Durango Community Shelter, a Clinical Assistant at Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, a Sustainable Farmer at Morning Dew Organic Farm in Bayfield, and co-developed and toured with an exhibit on planned pregnancy. I also served 10 months of community service with the Americorps National Civilian Community Corps and have worked in various ways with organic food and children over the years.

I am currently active in The Durango Green Business Roundtable, the La Plata Coalition on Adolescent Pregnancy, a member of the SW Chapter of the American Red Cross, an active Volunteer at the Volunteers of America Durango Community Shelter, a participant on the San Juan Basin Health Dept. Family Planning Advisory Board, and Board member of the Oakhaven Permaculture Institute.

Peter Roper
bicycle@colorado.edu
(presentation)

Peter Roper is a fourth year student at CU-Boulder majoring in Economics. Ever since my first school bus ride I’ve been an avid alternative transportation commuter. Whether I’m riding my bicycle 10 miles or bussing, if I can avoid driving, I’m on it. I volunteer for the City of Boulder for study committees and for the Walk and Bike Week, 2003. I also work at the Environmental Center as the bicycle programs coordinator, bringing together efforts to increase bicycling on campus. Staying out of my car has kept me healthy and happy - my mission is to help out to make it easier for everyone.

Suzanne Scott, Ph. D
sscott@mines.edu
Colorado School of Mines
303-273-3593

Linda Smith
Linda.Smith2@state.co.us
Rebuild Colorado -- Sr. Program Manager
Colorado Governor’s Office of Energy Management and Conservation
303-894-2383
Web site
(presentation)

Ms. Smith is the Sr. Program Manager of Rebuild Colorado, focusing on energy performance contracting as a way to help public building owners upgrade their facilities. She has a Master’s degree in energy engineering and has worked at the Governor’s Office of Energy Management for 14 years to improve energy efficiency in commercial and institutional buildings, including colleges and universities. Rebuild Colorado is also encouraging commissioning and high performance design of new buildings. Ms. Smith is currently Vice President of the Board of Directors for the Energy Services Coalition, a public-private partnership to maintain high industry standards for energy performance contracting, and is the Co-Chair for a Colorado Chapter.

Gene Stroh
gstroh@users.fm.colostate.edu
Transportation Manager, CSU Transportation Services

On behalf of CSU, Gene has entered into discussions with Blue Sun Biodiesel (a Fort Collins based biodiesel producer) to purchase fuel for campus diesel vehicles.

Dawn Thilmany
thilmany@lamar.colostate.edu
Department of Ag and Resource Economics
Colorado State University
970-491-7220
(presentation)

Dawn Thilmany is an Associate Professor of Agribusiness and Labor and  Agribusiness Extension Economist with Colorado State University and serves on the Markets Advisory Board with the Colorado Department of Agriculture. Dr. Thilmany’s work on small agribusiness management, and specifically, market opportunities for niche producers, has led to some visible programs that have directly assisted producers and received strong accolades. The Website for Colorado Crop to Cuisine highlights a program that has had direct benefits to small, local producers and raised awareness of local food issues. One of the participants received a Colorado Proud Award in 2001 and another received the same award in 2002, with Colorado Crop to Cuisine itself receiving the award for best organization, based on their promotion of buying Colorado. Her more recent work includes research and outreach with  to: examine a more appropriate and committed role for Land Grants to support alternative agriculture producers; support niche marketing beef efforts through development of marketing and managerial curriculum (with American Farmland Trust); and more specifically, work with Colorado Homestead Ranches to focus on retailing and marketing strategies for natural meat products and other locally produced, lightly processed foods (with funding from a USDA Value-Added Development grant).

Will Toor
william.toor@colorado.edu
Director of Environmental Center
(presentation)

Will Toor has served as the director of the University of Colorado Environmental Center since 1992. He is co-author of the book Finding A New Way: Campus Transportation For The Twenty-first Century. He is currently working on a new book titled Transportation and the Ivory Tower: Sustainable Mobility for University Communities. He has served on the Boulder City Council since 1997, and has been Boulder Mayor since 1998. Will has a PhD in physics from the University of Chicago. A selection of paper and talks by Will Toor are available online.

Ed von Bleichert
vonb@colorado.edu
Environmental Operations Manager, Dept. of Facilities Management Environmental Services, University of Colorado at Boulder
303-492-5321
(presentation)

Mr. von Bleichert received a degree in Environmental Conservation and Biology from the University of Colorado at Boulder. As a student he worked with the administration to try and reduce its use of pesticides on campus. This work continued when he became the assistant director of the CU Environmental Center in 1995. At that time, this effort was directed primarily at the use of landscape pesticides. In 1998 he was recruited by the department of Facilities Management to assume the role as Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Coordinator for the department. Mr. von Bleichert quickly moved to consolidate all indoor pest control work in the form of one full time structural IPM specialist. In April of 2000 this position became permanent, allowing Facilities Management to provide a least-toxic pest control service to all campus customers at a lower cost than traditional (spray-based) pest control contractors.

Through the creation of a campus-wide IPM policy in March of 2002, Mr. von Bleichert was appointed as the CU-Boulder Campus IPM Coordinator. In addition to supervising the structural IPM protocol, his position now reviews all proposed pesticide applications on campus, including ornamental landscaping and natural lands.

Mr. von Bleichert persists in his work to design a n IPM program that can be adopted by the four campuses of the CU system. His focus will continue to be on overall pesticide use reductions, use of “least-toxic” and non-synthetic pesticides, minimizing exposures to people, the environment, and non-target organisms, and finding long-term solutions to pest problems that address the problem at the source. In addition to the IPM program, Mr. Von Bleichert also is responsible for solid waste and recycling collections, management of the campus recycling facility, and review of cleaners toxicity.

Sue Wallace
Susan.Wallace@colorado.edu
Environmental Coordinator, CU-Boulder Housing
(presentation 1, presentation 2)

Sue Wallace is the Environmental Coordinator for the Department of Housing at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Sue earned a bachelors degree in biology and a masters in building systems engineering from CU Boulder. In 1990, she began her environmental work at the City of Boulder Office of Environmental Affairs, and then spent seven years as a project coordinator for the Boulder Energy Conservation Center, a local non-profit organization. By managing projects and programs in energy and resource conservation, green building, recycling and composting, and pollution prevention, Sue is assisting the Department of Housing in moving closer to a more environmentally-aware and pro-active future.

Faith Winter
faith@envirocitizen.org

Faith Winter is the Western Field Organizer for Enviro Citizen. She went to the University of Redlands and graduated in 2002 with a degree in environmental management and a minor in biology. Throughout college Faith organized to improve water quality in Costa Rica and protect a local canyon in Redlands. After college Faith was a member of Green Corps where she worked to bring solar power to the University of California, save 250 million acres of Wilderness in California and preserve the right to comment in the National Forest Management Act. She believes that there are two kinds of power: people and money and since she doesn’t have any money she has chosen to work with people. When the majority of people (about 75%) agree that the environment has to be protected all we have to do is organize. Faith likes to empower people and get people fired up especially about global warming. She believes that your most valuable resource is yourself and that everyone should make their voice count. She is a strong advocate for the work hard play hard mentality and loves to laugh. She would love to hear from everyone.

Bob Woellner
woellner@questmi.com
Quest Management Int’l.
303-935-1573

Robert Woellner is the President of QUEST Management International, LLC and QUEST, Inc. Mr. Woellner is an ISO 14001 Lead Assessor/Auditor and a member of the U.S. Technical Advisory Group to ISO/TC207 that represents the US interests in the development of the ISO 14000 environmental management standards. Mr. Woellner has been the lead auditor and consultant for the assessment and development of environmental management systems for dozens of clients. Mr. Woellner has significant experience in environmental risk assessment and management, environmental insurance, analytical services, and the development and implementation of international environmental management systems. He serves on several boards, teaches college classes, and has published dozens of articles and contributed to several books regarding environmental risk management including the book International Environmental Risk Management: ISO 14000 and the Systems Approach (CRC/Lewis, 1998) which he co-authored with John Voorhees, QUEST’s Chief Legal Officer. He holds a B.S. in Geology from Middlebury College and an M.S. in Marine Geology and Geophysics from the University of Miami - Rosensteil School of Marine and Atmospheric Science.

Jeff Wooldridge
jwo