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Contacts

If you have comments or questions regarding our program, contact the following persons in the offices below:

Energy, Water Conservation, Recycling

Armando de Leon
Manager of Sustainability Programs

Transportation

Becca White
Director, Parking and Transportation

Dining

Kendall Singleton
U.Va. Dining Sustainability Coordinator

Land Use, LEED, Planning, Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Andrew Greene
Sustainability Planner

Student Housing

Rich Kovatch
Associate VP for Business Operations

Presidential Committee on Sustainability

The Committee on Sustainability shall advise the President and Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, through the Architect for the University, on all matters related to the overall quality, diligence, and progress of the University's commitment to sustainability in the broad sense of environmental, economic, and social impacts, and their relationship to the future of the University. In carrying out this charge, the Committee shall be engaged in the following:

  • Recommend policies, procedures, and priorities that will promote the highest-standards of sustainable practice across the University including but not limited to business operations, energy production and utilization, and design and management of facilities.
  • Provide guidance in the development of communication plans with the goal of increasing sustainable behavior among faculty, staff, and students. Recommend and encourage the development of new opportunities to educate the University community on sustainable thinking and practice.
  • Review and comment on the University's progress toward measurable sustainability objectives.
  • Review and comment on the University's responses to major national surveys and/or voluntary compliance with regard to an institutional plan toward the reduction in CO2 emissions and related environmental impacts.

Committee on Sustainability

Membership

Membership as of August 27, 2010

David J. Neuman, Chair (Architect for the University)
Ralph O. Allen (Director of Environmental Health & Safety)
William L. Ashby (Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs/Associate Dean of Students)
Timothy Beatley
Jonathan Z. Cannon
Kevin E. Fox (Representative, Vice President and CEO of the Medical Center)
Cheryl L. Gomez (Director of Energy & Utilities)
William C. Keene, Jr. (Faculty Senate Representative)
Teresa W. Lockard (Representative, Vice President and Chief Information Officer)
Frederick A. Missel (Representative, University of Virginia Foundation)
Jeffrey Plank (Associate Vice President for Research)
James A. Smith (Representative, Research Community)
M. Wynne Stuart (Associate Provost for Academic Support & Classroom Management)
Donald E. Sundgren (Chief Facilities Officer)
Mark A. White
Rebecca White (Representative, Business Operations)
Timothy J. White (Employee Councils Representative)
Ida Lee D. Wootten (Representative, Public Affairs)

Student Members:

Sheffield M. Hale (Undergraduate Representative)
Geoffrey G. Suttle (Graduate Representative)

Ex-officio:

Andrew J. Greene, Secretary (Sustainability Planner, Office of the University Architect)