Jack Byrne: Sustainability, Green Campus and Carbon Neutrality [VIDEO]
Jack Byrne
Director of Sustainability Integration
Franklin Environmental Ctr Hillcrest 109
Phone: 802.443.5043
Email: jmbyrne@middlebury.edu
Topics he can discuss include: - Campus sustainability
- "Greening" the campus
- Carbon neutrality on college campuses
- Sustainable campus planning
VIDEO
Why We Should Care About "Sustainability" (1:17)
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 and construction, recycling, renewable energy technologies and energy conservation, local foods, greenhouse gas reduction strategies and transportation initiatives. 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 publication The Green Campus: Meeting the Challenge of Environmental Sustainability (APPA, 2008).
Byrne is co-founder of the non-profit Foundation for Our Future at the Center for a Sustainable Future. 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 multiple future perspectives and to make better decisions concerning choices with life-long consequences. He is a founder and was the first Executive Director of 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.
