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
- Next meeting: November 4, 2009
- All committee meetings are open to undergraduates
- Committee on Sustainability Fall 2009 Budget
Meeting Agendas and Minutes
- October 7, 2009
- Agenda 10.07.09
- Minutes 10.07.09
- October 14, 2009
- Agenda 10.14.09
- Minutes 10.14.09
- October 21, 2009
- Agenda 10.21.09
- Minutes 10.21.09
- October 28, 2009
- Agenda 10.28.09
- Minutes 10.28.09
- November 4, 2009
- Agenda 11.04.09
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
- 2009 Guide to Sustainability at MIT
- 2008 Guide to Sustainability at MIT
- ua-sustainability-announce mailing list
- Dorm Sustainability Coordinators
- IAP Class
- Discover Energy and Environment FPOP
- FSILG Recycling
- Recyclemania
- Plastic Bags Recycling - Now available in the Student Center!
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