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PEOPLE
| Here we list faculty, staff, students and community members who are involved in sustainability activities either through their classes, in their research, or in their work. Click on a person's name to go to their personal Web page, or to make contact. |
UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO PEOPLE
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Sustainability Center
Darin Saul, Sustainability Coordinator
In this newly created position, Darin is working closely with UI faculty, staff, students and community leaders to guide the University of Idaho through its transition to becoming a leader in environmental, economic and social change.
2007/2008 Student Officers:
Alecia Hoene, Director, graduate student in Environmental Science
Lissa Firor, Communications Coordinator, junior in Environmental Science
Andrea Dickerson, Business Coordinator, senior in Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology
Morgen Reynolds, Project Coordinator, Law School
Erik Luvaas, 2007 Summer Assistant, Sustainability Center, graduate of Environmental Science
Eric's work at the UI Sustainability Center has primarily been to develop a promotional plan for the UISC to gain visibility to students on campus. Working with the Dean of Students Office, he focused on the New Student Orientation and Palousafest activities, to order travel mugs to give to orientation students, promoting coffee discounts on campus and reducing coffee cup waste. This will be a continuous campaign. A "Sustainable Living" guide, specific to Moscow, will also be given to the orientation students, and be available at Palousafest and other events throughout the year. Other major activities in which Eric was involved included helping coordinate a zero waste event plan for campus, researching methods to effectively participate in the national Recycle Mania competition, and developing criteria for a comprehensive sustainability assessment.
Rose Keller, 2006/2007 Student Director of the Sustainability Center, graduate of International Environmental Policy and Economics
Facilities
Brian Johnson, Associate Vice President of Facilities
Brian leads the campus Facilities Team, with responsibility for the maintenance and repair of general education facilities and the campus utility infrastructure. Units within the Facilities organization oversee campus and facility planning, design and construction, space management, building trades, custodial services, grounds maintenance, garage operations, recycling and solid waste, utilities energy systems, as well as the day to day administrative and business support operations. Processes and policies within the Facilities Team have a direct impact on campus operations and the university's environmental 'footprint'. The Facilities Team has tremendous interest and enthusiasm in working across campus organizational units to promote and deliver sustainable university operations.
Richard Nagy, Resource Conservation Manager
With primary responsibilities of managing the utility budgets, and to identify and implement projects to conserve energy and water, and reduce solid waste, almost all of Richard's efforts are directly or indirectly concerned with improving sustainability for the UI Moscow campus facilities. Contact Richard.
College of Art and Architecture
Rula Awwad-Rafferty, Professor of Interior Design
Rula is committed to bringing sustainable design techniques to the forefront of her work. In her classes, she incorporates theoretical understanding of design problems with practical experiences, by bringing her students into small regional communities to work on real-world projects.
Stephen Drown, Chair and Professor of Landscape Architecture
In this role, Steve teaches sustainable principles of site design to his LA students. He also serves as co-PI with Steve Hollenhorst of the Building Sustainable Communities initiative, which is establishing an M.S. degree in BioRegional Planning and Community Design, and an outreach program to assist Idaho communities and professionals with sustainable planning challenges.
Bruce Haglund, Professor of Architecture
Bruce is committed to developing a high quality built environment that is carbon-neutral, sustainable, and beautiful. To accomplish this goal it is essential to work across disciplines in a collaborative and integrated manner.
College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
Jan Boll, Associate Professor of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, and Director of the Water Resources Program
Jan leads the Water of the West Initiative at the UI, which focuses on research and education of sustainable water use.
Bob Mahler, Professor of Soil Science
Bob teaches the core introductory Environmental Science course at the UI, and consequently is instrumental in bringing sustainability awareness to over 250 students each semester. His work as an extension educator links soil fertility with sustainable agriculture practices.
Jodi Johnson-Maynard, Associate Professor of Soil Science
As a teacher, researcher and the advisor of the Soil Stewards student group on campus, Jodi supports sustainable agriculture activities through both research and production. Sustainability is a theme that weaves lectures together in her soil 205 class (The Soil Ecosystem). Sustainability related research includes the use of mustard byproducts produced through the biodiesel production process as soil amendments. Jodi actively supports student research and experiential learning on the UI Organic Farm (http://stuorgs.uidaho.edu/~soilstewards/index.htm), where vegetables are produced and sold to the public and used in campus dining functions.
Barbara Williams, Assistant Professor of Hydrogeology
J.D. Wulfhorst, Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology
As a rural sociologist, J.D. works with communities and organizations concerned with resource stewardship, management, and changes in the landscape. He is a Steering Committee member of the Sustainable Idaho Initiative and teaches Law, Ethics, & the Environment to raise awareness about the challenges and opportunities that affect rural community sustainability.
College of Business
K.D. Hatheway-Dial, Instructor of Accounting
John Lawrence, Professor of Business
John teaches courses in operations, strategy and international business and attempts to incorporate concepts of sustainability into all of them. He is also a member of the Environmental Science core faculty, helped with the Sustainable Idaho Initiative, served as a facilitator for the Palouse Project workshop, and was a member of the team that drafted the CBE’s policy requiring all business students to take a course relating to the natural environment. John hopes to eventually develop and offer a business course especially for environmental scientists, as well as to develop teaching cases integrating business concepts and environmental sustainability.
College of Education
Ernie Biller, Associate Professor, Vocational Teacher Education
John Davis, Interim Chair of Curriculum and Instruction, Associate Professor of Education
James Gregson, Professor of Adult, Career and Technology Education
Dr. Gregson brings experience and expertise in Appropriate Technology and Micro Alternative Energy, and Green Construction to the sustainability initiatives.
College of Engineering
Fritz Fiedler, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering
Mike Kyte, Professor of Civil Engineering, and Director of the National Institute of Alternative Transportation Technology
College of Graduate Studies
Maxine Dakins, Interim Director and Associate Professor of Environmental Science
Max has been coordinating the Environmental Science Program for the University of Idaho in Idaho Falls since 1996. She also serves as co-Director of the Sustainable Idaho Initiative which sponsors a yearly Palouse Project workshop to infuse sustainability across the curriculum, a yearly competition to fund sustainability projects on campus, and supports the position of UI Sustainability Coordinator.
Chris Dixon, Academic Advisor and Administrative Services Coordinator
Chris believes that sustainability or sustaining ourselves is just the beginning of what we can do to make our Earth more habitable and pleasant for future generations. It is the first step in creating systems that are truly life enhancing for humans and other species. She loves Michael Baumgart's idea that it would be wonderful if other species benefited from the fact that humans are on this earth.
Rosemary Streatfeild, Research Proposal Writer
Having been active with the Sustainable Idaho Initiative since its conception, Rosemary is striving to reduce her own carbon footprint by living a more simple life and reducing the amount of resources she uses on a daily basis. She believes that a good life can be had by all especially when we cut our consumption of "things." By respecting the rights of all species to share this planet, we will bequeath a world that we are proud to pass on.
College of Law
Barbara Cosens, Associate Professor of Law
Barbara sees her primary role in sustainability at the UI to be helping to develop a new degree program in water resources that will educate students to better manage our water resources for sustainability by training them across scientific, social, political and legal disciplines, and in making the institutional reforms to allow the program itself to be sustained - such as changes in tenure review for interdisciplinary law faculty, and funding for students. In life, Barbara tries to live simply.
College of Letters and Social Sciences
Douglas Lind, Chair and Professor of Philosophy
Adam Sowards, Assistant Professor of History
Adam is interested in the historical roots of contemporary environmental problems (and solutions) from ecological, cultural and political perspectives. He sees the past as being a guide to the present and future.
College of Natural Resources
Stephen Cook, Associate Professor of Forest Resources
Steven Hollenhorst, Head of Conservation Social Science, Professor of Resource, Recreation and Tourism
Steve is co-PI with Steve Drown and interim director of the Building Sustainable Communities initiative, which is establishing an M.S. degree in BioRegional Planning and Community Design, and an outreach program to assist Idaho communities and professionals with sustainable planning challenges. He is also director of the McCall Outdoor Science School, Idaho's first and only residential environmental science education center for K-12 students, and director of the National Park Service Visitor Services Project.
Chuck Harris, Professor of Conservation Social Sciences
Tim Link, Associate Professor of Forest Resources
Dr. Timothy Link's research program focuses primarily on the interactions between climate and landcover change, to enhance the sustainability of water resources and aquatic ecosystem health.
Ronald Robberecht, Professor of Rangeland Ecology
Nick Sanyal, Associate Professor of Conservation Social Sciences
Dr. Sanyal's activities include directing scholarship about the wildlands, communities and institutions necessary for the use, enjoyment, understanding and conservation of natural resources; the application of Green Infrastructure to working landscapes; human dimensions of fish and wildlife management; and surveying research methodologies, public opinion measurement and Service-Learning. He also acts as Faculty Advisor to SOPE: the Student Organization for People and the Environment (the UI Student Chapter of the International Association for Society and Natural Resources).
Patrick Wilson, Associate Professor of Natural Resource Policy
Active in the Building Sustainable Communities and Water of the West initiatives, Patrick teaches environmental politics and natural resource policy. As part of his teaching, he asks his students to think long and hard about what sustainability is and what are the cost/benefit tradeoffs.
College of Science
Karen Humes, Associate Professor of Geography
Gis & Remote sensing
Gundars Rudzitis, Professor of Geography
Von Walden, Associate Professor of Geography
University Research Office
Kim Farbo, Management Assistant, Environmental Research Institute
Kim is interested in hands-on projects such as recyling or monthly campus cleanups, and thinks windmill energy is totally fascinating. |
| COMMUNITY PEOPLE |
Andy Boyd, Manager, Moscow Recycling Center
As the manager of Moscow Recycling, Andy feels that the facility plays an important role in achieving a more sustainable lifestyle here on the Palouse. Although recycling is important, Moscow 'Recycling plays a larger role in helping our community improve its overall ecological footprint through educating citizens about waste reduction and purchasing practices as well as identifying businesses that provide goods that are sustainable.
Nancy Chaney, Mayor of Moscow, and a 2002 graduate of the UI Environmental Science Program
Science and popular media have converged with the common message that social, environmental and economic well-being are intertwined. Increasingly, elected officials, businesses and development interests are joining scientists and educators in speaking the language of sustainability. With the University of Idaho and Washington State University so near, the Palouse region is ideally suited to putting the ideas into practice. Moscow is developing a reputation as a leader in those efforts, having created a budgetary line item for Sustainability, hired a Sustainability Intern, expanded its award-winning green building program, implemented a tiered water/sewer rate structure and a water conservation ordinance, crafted a night sky ordinance, started the Mayor's Earth Day Awards program, introduced biodiesel into its municipal fleet, anticipates defining baselines and targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, commits funds for improved bicycle-pedestrian connectedness and public transit, participates in environmental educational forums, contributes to hydrogeological research, is developing sustainable purchasing practices, is making strides in reducing paper consumption, and much more.
Tom Lamar, Executive Director of the Palouse-Clearwater Environmental Institute
Jake Smulkowsky, Environmental Education Specialist, Palouse-Clearwater Environmental Institute
Jim Ekins, Community Outreach Specialist, Palouse-Clearwater Environmental Institute
Jim adheres to two different and mutually inclusive definitions, depending on the situation. The first is the standard 1987 Brundtland UN Commission's definition: "Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." In addition, he believes that, as the primary driver of society's use and dissemination of resources, the ECONOMY must evolve to realistically reflect the complete costs of our use of the plant's resources. This includes life support services. The economy must mimic the ecological complexities that support us and all other life teeming on this plant. In doing so, we solve the real issue behind the tragedy of the commons, and a whole lot of issues surrounding the concept of justice. As someone once said, more or less, "It's about the Economy, stupid."
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WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY PEOPLE
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| John Glass, Director, Materials and Resource Management |
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Last updated on August 28, 2007.
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