Don Scavia, Special Counsel to the President for Sustainability, Terry Alexander, executive director of the Office of Campus Sustainability and Ryan Smith, of the Student Sustainability Initiative, were interviewed by the University Record about U-M's sustainability initiative. Excerpts from the article published Sept. 7, 2010. Click here for the full interview.
Don Scavia, Special Counsel to the President for Sustainability. "The university is ideally suited to advance the education of future leaders, the research that's needed to solve problems, and to continuously improve the operations here on campus. But doing them in isolation is not good enough. Bringing them together is where I think we are going to make a huge difference.
Terry Alexander, executive director, Office of Campus Sustainability. "Everything we can do operationally to make the campus greener, helping to educate the next generation of leaders who are going to help us fix the world, to world-class research that's going to lead to solutions of these problems -- all of these combined will help us fix the issues that are affecting us today."
Ryan Smith, Sudent Sustainability Initiative. "Before the SSI existed, there were disparate groups on campus,probably 30 or more, representing different environmental issues. Now those groups can come together in a consortium, which is the SSI, and serve as a single, unified voice to the administration.