University of Massachusetts Amherst
PAE-1: Sustainability Coordination

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.

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

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.