UA Principal Officers

President Michael Bennie '10

Vice President Maggie Delano '10

Treasurer Alex Dehnert '12

Secretary General Liz Denys '11

Speaker of the Senate Paul Baranay '11

Vice-Chair of the Senate Tim Stumbaugh '12

UA Committee on Sustainability

The MIT Undergraduate Association Committee on Sustainability is charged with galvanizing passion, energy, and interest in sustainability on campus. This committee interfaces with other student advocacy and policy groups, facilitating communication to induce change. This committee also identifies and addresses needs within the undergraduate sustainability community.

Contact the Committee on Sustainability at ua-sustainability@mit.edu

Committee Officers
Chair: Alexandra Jordan
Vice-Chair: Open
Committee Members
Elizabeth Maroon
Lily Xu
Yangbo Du
Corinne Carland
Ying Lucy Fan
Raimundo Krishna Esteva

Committee News

Meeting Agendas and Minutes

Current Projects

  • Reusable Grocery Bags in Dorms
  • Point person: Krishna Esteva
  • Status: Pilot program beginning mid-November
  • Plastic Bag Recycling Program Expansion
  • Point person: Liz Maroon
  • Status: Meeting with Facilities to discuss placing bins in dorms
  • Paperless Registration and Add/Drop Forms
  • Point person: Alex Jordan
  • Status: Working with Special Projects Committee
  • Stop Printing Course Catalogues and Telephone Directories
  • Point person: Alex Jordan
  • Status: In contact with the Reference Publications Office
  • Reuseable Take-Out Containers in Dining Halls
  • Point people: Lucy Fan and Corinne Carland
  • Status: Working with Office of Dining to expand current reuseable and compostable containers to all dorms and on-campus food vendors
  • Composting
  • Point people: Lily Xu and Krishna Esteva
  • Status: In contact with the Facilities Department and the Office of Campus Dining
  • Utilities Metering in Dorms
  • Point person: Alex Jordan
  • Status: Waiting on final Task Force Recommendations
  • Motion-sensored Lighting on Campus
  • Point people: Yangbo Du and Lucy Fan
  • Status: Initial research phase
  • FSILG Recycling Program Expansion
  • Point person: Alex Jordan
  • Status: In contact with Facilities Department to discuss current users; intend to contact all Boston FSILG presidents by mid-November
  • Technocycle Revival and Expansion
  • Point people: Corinne Carland and Lily Xu
  • Status: Not started
  • Compile all Course Readers into PDFs on Stellar
  • Point person: Alex Jordan
  • Status: Not started

Completed Projects

Dorm Sustainability Coordinators (2009-2010)

To be determined

Dorm Sustainability Coordinators (2008-2009)

Baker
Allison Dobry
Joanne Huang
Bexley
Froylan Emilfer Sifuentes
Katie Pesce
Burton-Conner
Cat Johnson
Karen Dubbin
East Campus
Jack Jester-Weinstein
McCormick
Amrita Karambelkar
Margaret Ding
MacGregor
Kimberly Le
Juliana Velez
New House
Murtaza Nek
Next House
Anna Simon
NW35
Aimee Harrison
Random Hall
Amy Fritz
Senior Haus
Josh Gordonson
Ivan Sergeev
Katie Ames
Simmons
Lucy Fan

Sustainability Calendar