Sustainable Community Development Initiative

2009 Sustainability Champions

Erin Babson

for her work with the GVSU bus system and recycling on the Pew campus

 

Sweta Basnet

for her work with HIV/AIDS awareness

 

Luis Colaferro

for his work on the Climate Action Plan and calculating Grand Valley's carbon inventory

 

Janaan Decker

for her work leading a group of students to Ghana on a social equity building trip

 

Michelle DeWitt

for her work in greening the Chemistry lab from recycling to cleaning methods

 

Dalila Kovacs, Min Qi, Andrew Lantz, Cory DiCarlo, and Nathan Craft

for their work resulting in the Michigan Green Chemistry Governor's Award

 

President Thomas Haas

for institutionalizing Sustainability as a value of the University

 

Anne Marie Fauvel, Paul Jaenicke, Lisa Miller, Melissa Peraino, Ron Villaneuva, and Rose Yoder

for their work as the Holland Green Team

 

Robert Hollister

for his research on the affects of climate change

 

Rich Jelier

for the publication of Sustaining Michigan

 

Toni Jones

for establishing the Green Library

 

Jalyn Kamp

for her marketing efforts of the GVSU bus system which have lead to increased ridership

 

John Kilbourne

for his work in developing Sparkle stationary bikes and expanding the project to the Rec Center

 

Dan Kuipers

for his work with carbon credit development through Viability, LLC

 

Paul Lane and John Farris

for their work with Esteli Innovation

 

Erin Layman

for her work on the Campus Sustainability website and the City of Grand Rapids sustainability site

 

Colleen Lyon

for her work with the Green Library

 

Neil MacDonald

for his research, along with students, of forest and watershed ecology

 

Julia Mason

for the integration of sustainability into the Women's Studies curriculum

 

Azizur Molla

for his work on radon-levels in the local community

 

Jaideep Motwani

for his numerous efforts to integrate sustainability into the Seidman College of Business

 

Jeff Musser

for his work on the Climate Action Committee

 

Erik Nordman

for his work on the effects of wind turbines on the community

 

Melvin Northup

for his work with soil and water conservation in the community

 

Danielle Ostafinski

for her role as a delegate to the Copenhagen Climate Summit

 

Terry Pahl

for his work in improving the sustainability of GVSU facilities

 

Tim Thimmesch and Brian Copeland

for their work on the 2008 Sustainability Indicator Report

 

Michael Zervos

for his work to involve a diverse array of student groups in sustainability