University of Washington, Seattle
PA-1: Sustainability Coordination

The UW Environmental Stewardship Committee provides recommendations to the executive leadership for sustainability and resource conservation policies across all three of our campuses while overseeing progress towards meeting the goals of the UW Climate Action Plan. Committee Role and Structure The Committee communicates with individuals, groups, and committees across the University, both to gather information about ongoing sustainability measures, and to communicate progress. The Committee also works to identify emerging and growing opportunities for collaboration among academic and administrative units, offering the campus as a learning lab for students and faculty to work with administration on increased operational sustainability. The Committee reports to the President, Provost, Vice Presidents and Vice Provosts. The Committee is represented by individuals from seven administrative departments, nine academic units, four students, as well as members from the UW Bothell and UW Tacoma campuses and ex-officio members from the Medical Centers and Housing & Food Services. The Committee meets several times each academic year. In addition, both our Bothell and Tacoma campuses maintain campus-specific sustainability committees.

2017-2018 Environmental Stewardship Committee members: Jeff Scott, Executive Vice President, UW Finance & Administration Lisa Graumlich, Dean, College of the Environment Sandra O. Archibald, Dean, Evans School of Public Policy and Governance Claudia Frere-Anderson, Director, UW Sustainability Stanley Asah, Assistant Professor, School of Environmental & Forest Sciences John Schaufelberger, Professor/Dean, College of Built Environments Ann Marie Borys, Associate Professor, Architecture Rob Pena, Associate Professor, Architecture Patrick Clark, Director,Campus Planning & Real Estate, UW Tacoma Kim Lokan, Facilities Services Manager, UW IT Jude Van Buren, Director, Environmental Health and Safety Howard Frumkin, Professor, School of Public Health Elizabeth James, Associated Students of the University of Washington Anthony Guerrero, Assistant Vice Chancellor, Facilities Services, UW Bothell Theodore Hoss, Residential Community Student Association Ruth Johnston, Vice Chancellor for Administration and Planning, UW Bothell Ben Packard, Executive Director, EarthLab John Chapman, Interim Associate Vice President, Facilities Services Michael J. McCormick, Associate Vice President, Capital Planning & Development Gary Handwerk, English Professor, College of Arts & Sciences Jeanne Allen Carswell, Campus Sustainability Fund Brandon Ray, Graduate and Professional Student Senate Stanley Joshua, Director of Facilities Services, UW Tacoma Bob Ennes, Director, Health Sciences Administrator, Health Sciences Bill Starkey, Associate Treasurer, Treasury Stephen Muench, Associate Professor, College of Engineering Ex Officio Members Barbara A. Fromm, Assistant Administrator, Clinical Support Services and Planning, Harborview Medical Center GWH Pam Schreiber, Director, Housing & Food Services Karen Baebler, Assistant Athletics Director, Intercollegiate Athletics

UW Sustainability coordinates and promotes sustainability programs and initiatives by informing, engaging, and connecting members of the UW community. Established in 2008, UW Sustainability provides leadership and support for the Environmental Stewardship Committee (ESC), the Climate Action Plan (CAP) and is leading the campus in the development of the University's first comprehensive sustainability plan. The office gathers and reports data for the online UW Sustainability Dashboard and compiles campus information for rating systems such as STARS. Each year the office organizes a campus-wide sustainability event in the fall and helps organize campus Earth Day events in the spring. In 2018, the Business Diversity Program was added to the UW Sustainability portfolio. BDP provides small, minority & women-owned, veteran, and diverse businesses visibility to opportunities at the University,

UW Sustainability is tasked with coordinating sustainability efforts across the entire University of Washington, including creating institutional sustainability plans, a process that started in 2018. The West Campus Utility Plant - the first university project to win an Envision Gold Award from Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure - includes an interpretive element to provide a window into the University’s commitment to sustainability. Six video screens facing the street display information and stories about sustainability, with the content curated by UW Sustainability. https://green.uw.edu/wcup In 2015 the UW and Seattle City Light created a partnership through City Light’s Green Up program to advance renewable energy on campus and beyond. https://green.uw.edu/news/uw-and-seattle-city-light-create-green-program-partnership The annual Sustainability Fair has provided an opportunity for a diverse array of groups across UW to tell their sustainability stories in conjunction with National Campus Sustainability Month. http://green.uw.edu/fair UW Sustainability is working with executive leaders at the university to host the 2019 Washington & Oregon Higher Education Sustainability Conference. http://wohesc.org UW has earned a perfect score on The Princeton Review’s Green Honor Roll for eight straight years. UW Sustainability provides administrative support to the student-funded Campus Sustainability Fund (CSF) which recently passed the $2 million mark in total grants since its creation. http://csf.uw.edu UW Sustainability was a founding partner of the Livable City Year program, an EPIC-N program which connects local communities with UW faculty and students to work on real-world projects around livability and sustainability. http://LCY.uw.edu UW Sustainability worked with other campus partners and Special Olympics USA on sustainability efforts around the 2018 Special Olympics USA Games held on campus. In the summer of 2018, UW Sustainability director Claudia Frere-Anderson was also named director of the UW Business Diversity Program. A process of fully integrating the two programs is underway.

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