Sustainability Committee

History of ACES

Linfield President Thomas Hellie appointed the ACES committee (Advisory Committee on the Environment and Sustainability) in September 2007.  The charge given to the committee by President Hellie consisted of six tasks:

1. Determine our carbon footprint, and ways to reduce it.
2. Develop guidelines for assuring new campus buildings meet LEED-Silver standards.           
3. Find out what is currently going on across the campus around recycling, conservation of energy, and sustainability.
4. Determine whether meeting the President’s Climate Commitment is feasible.
5. Determine potential costs for all of this, including monetary, academic, personal, and social costs.           
6. Develop strategies to communicate both to the campus community and to the wider community what we now do and what we plan to do.

ACES urged President Hellie to sign the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment, and he did so on Earth Day, 2008.  ACES then proceeded to address the remaining tasks, and at the end of spring semester 2009 the group endorsed the second major commitment of the Presidents Climate Commitment, the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Report, which was submitted in September 2009.

ACES continues to coordinate Linfield’s efforts around sustainability.

ACES Committee Members

Nancy Broshot, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies

James J. Diamond, Professor of Chemistry

W. Glenn Ford, Vice President for Finance & Administration, Co-Chair

John Hall, Director of Capitol Planning & Development, Sustainability Coordinator

Jennifer Heath, Associate Professor of Physics (sabbatical 2009-2010)

Delane Hein, Area Director, Student Housing

David Kellner-Rode, Student

Thomas Love, Professor of Anthropology

William Masullo, Manager, Linfield Sodexo Dining Services

Jeff McNamee, Associate Professor of Health & Human Performance

Catherine Jarmin Miller, Director of Foundation & Corporate Relations

Duncan Reid, Student

Frederic D. Ross, Senior Advisor & Assistant to the President, Co-Chair

Bonnie Saucier, Dean of Nursing, Acting Director of the Portland Campus

Brad Sinn, Director of Facilities Services

Sandra Stepp, Cleaning Services

Wes Thomas, McMinnville Water & Light