Duke Endowment-Furman University Climate Action Plan (CAP) Workshop, January 2009

Presenters

Brett Pasinella - Since 2006, Brett Pasinella has been the Program Coordinator for UOS's Biodiversity Education Initiative and Climate Education Initiative. In this role, he assists with the organization and implementation of initiative curricula, research, projects, and events related to the issues of biodiversity, ecological and public health, conservation, climate change, energy, and other related issues. Brett holds master's degrees in geography and energy; environmental analysis from Boston University and a bachelor's degree from Clark University with a double major in physics and environmental science; policy.

Bowen Patterson is the Sustainability Coordinator for Pomona College, a position created in July 2008. She is also a recent alumnus of the College, graduating in 2006 with a BA in Environmental Analysis - Policy. While a student at Pomona, she was very active in campus sustainability efforts and served as the student senate's Environmental Affairs Commissioner for two years. After graduating from Pomona she received a Masters degree in urban planning from the University of Southern California, focusing on land use and sustainable regional growth. She also received a Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Cities from the University's Center for Sustainable Cities. While in graduate school, she worked full-time for a planning, design, and management consulting firm, where she worked on land use and strategic plans for public agencies and governments.

Dean Koyanagi is the Senior Sustainability coordinator at Cornell University, a position he helped first create in 2005, and then revamp as part of the Office of Environmental Compliance and Sustainability (ECOS) in 2007. He is a Cornell alumnus, with a decade of consulting experience on facilities planning and management issues with government, corporate, and higher education clients. He holds a Masters degree in Environmental Education focused on transformational learning, and he and his wife have started a 40 acre forest farm in Ithaca, NY.

Jack Byrne is the Director of the Sustainability Integration Office at Middlebury College where he works with students, faculty and staff to advance and support leadership in creating a more sustainable future. His efforts cover a wide range of initiatives including green building design, recycling, renewable energy technology and energy conservation, local foods, greenhouse gas reduction and transportation. He is currently working on implementing the College’s strategies for becoming carbon neutral by 2016 through renewable energy, conservation, efficiency, and offsets after all other measures have been taken. Jack recently co-authored “Responding to Climate Change: Making it Happen at Middlebury College” in The Green Campus: Meeting the Challenge of Environmental Sustainability (APPA, 2008). Jack is co-founder of the non-profit Foundation for Our Future at the Center for a Sustainable Future and its current chairperson. While there he oversaw a six-year $18 million US Department of Education project, Education for a Sustainable Future – a national and international collaboration to develop technology based, K-12 curriculum, training programs, software and on-line resources about sustainable development. He developed and implemented the Shaping Our Future program which trains young adults how to see the future from multiple perspectives and to make better decisions concerning choices with life-long consequences. He is a founder and was the first Executive Director of the River Watch Network, an international non-governmental organization supporting community-based watershed conservation. He also serves on the Commission for Education and Communication of the World Conservation Union. Jack holds a B.S. in Biology from the Honors College at Kent State University and a master’s degree in environmental law from the Vermont Law School.

Jennifer Andrews, Campus Program Manager, Clean Air-Cool Planet
Jenn advises stakeholders at colleges, universities and private K-12 schools across the US on how to measure and manage their greenhouse gas emissions, using CA-CP's Campus Carbon Calculator and other institutional tools. Before coming to CA-CP as an intern in 2001, she did work in public radio, as an historic and environmental educator for children, and as a group leader for growth-oriented intergenerational writing workshops. Jenn studied English as an undergraduate at the University of New Hampshire and mental health counseling as a graduate student there. Recently, she helped co-found a Young Professionals Association in her community, which seeks to provide resources for professional development and nurture civic leadership in up-and-coming young (21-40) leaders; she serves as chair of that organization's Education Committee.

Claire Roby, Climate Fellow, Clean Air-Cool Planet

Claire assists CA-CP’s campus program by developing updates to the Campus Carbon Calculator and providing support to campus users on greenhouse gas accounting and management. Before coming to CA-CP in June 2008 as a Climate Fellow, she graduated from American University in Washington, D.C., with a bachelor's degree in environmental studies.  In her first year at American University, she rejuvenated the student group Eco-Sense, and led the group in successful campaigns for a clean energy referendum and a green transportation policy.  She became the Student Government's first Director of Environmental Policy, and persuaded the university president to sign the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment.  She also worked on AU's preliminary greenhouse gas inventory. Her efforts were recognized by her designation as a 2007 Udall Scholar and 2008 recipient of AU's award for Outstanding Service to the University Community. She has interned with AU’s Facilities Management, US EPA’s Climate Change Division, and the Pew Center for Global Climate Change.