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NEW GREEN UH TEAM SPECIALIZES IN SUCCESS
Green UH has a new team of
specialists this semester to help spread the word and educate
our campus on going green. This semester, the Green UH student
team consists of seven students with a wide range of
classifications and areas of study.
Leah Wolfthal, Program Coordinator for Sustainability for
University Services, has formed the new Sustainability Fellows
Program where she has hired on student workers to manage
different content areas of the program such as public relations,
data management and volunteer recruitment. According to
Wolfthal, the objectives of the program are threefold, �to
develop the University�s intellectual assets � in students � for
problem-solving in sustainability, to use those assets in the
service of sustainability on campus, and also to help students
connect sustainability thinking to what may be their future
career fields.�
The Sustainability Fellows will work as a whole on ways to
educate, promote and generate interest in creating a more
sustainable campus.
�This fellowship program cultivates not only traditional skills
associated with their individual professions, but also skills
needed to be leaders in problem-solving for sustainability,�
said Leah Wolfthal, Sustainability Coordinator for University
Services.
Wolfthal described her team as �diverse, creative and talented�
and said she looks forward to seeing the ideas the team will
generate. Each week the team will develop and plan programs and
then meet each Friday to discuss their ideas and progress.
�I think the team we have is really amazing. Everyone has a
really good work ethic! We�re all so different but it makes
things interesting, and it�s good for work because we can give
so many different ideas,� said Sarah Clouse, Workshop and
Training Development and Facilitation Fellow for the team.
The new Green UH student team is:
Adam Nguyen (graduate student, architecture) � Data Management
Fellow
Arnea Williams (graduate student,digital media/photography) �
Public Relations Fellow
Domonique Champion (sophomore, theatre) � Playwright/Director
Fellow
Sarah Clouse (junior, psychology) � Workshop and Training
Development/Facilitation Fellow
Angelo Emiliani (freshman, undecided) � CLASP Management Fellow
Michael Nguyen (sophomore, supply chain and logistics) � Event
Logistics
Gordon Rainwater (junior, computer science) � Volunteer Recruit
Management Fellow
This semester, the Green UH team will introduce some new events
and programs to promote and further educate the campus on
sustainability. On October 18, Green UH will host the contest
�Who Wants to Be An (Eco-)Millionaire?� in the UC Houston Room
where students can sign on for a chance to win $1,000. The team
will also release weekly public service announcements written by
and starring UH students to students, faculty, and staff on
conservation and climate change issues. Also this semester,
Green UH will hold a bi-monthly Sustainability Roundtable where
faculty and staff can discuss their own sustainability-related
projects and ideas.
The Sustainability Fellows are also developing ideas to increase
donations and funding to the program and assessing views of
sustainability on campus. Adam Nguyen, Data Management Fellow,
is currently working on a random sampling of the student body on
knowledge and attitudes of basic sustainability literacy
questions. He said in his education and profession, he has a
vested interest in sustainability issues which attracted him to
apply for the Green UH position.
�As an architecture student, sustainable issues have always been
in the forefront of our studio culture and design. To this, I
felt Green UH would be a great opportunity in which to further
my education on the topic of sustainability as well as
contribute to positive changes on campus,� Nguyen said.
The Green UH team will host the fourth annual Green UH Day on
November 2, 2011 in Butler Plaza which will coincide with the
Flip the Switch ceremony for the solar array on the Central
Power Plant, funded by a donation from Green Mountain Energy.
To volunteer for green programs and events on campus, send an
email to
volunteer.greenuh@gmail.com. For more information on
Green UH, visit
www.uh.edu/green.
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