| The following members of the BCC community are recognized for their commitment to our sustainability initiative. Each has worked behind the scenes going above and beyond to support environmental stewardship on campus. If YOU know a BCC environmental champion, e-mail your nomination to Dr. Peggy Green, chair of the Committee on Environmental Sustainability at pgreen@broward.edu. |
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| Dr. Monica Ramirez Dean of Academic Affairs, North Campus
As a geomorphologist, Dr. Ramirez has focused on environmental issues for her entire career. Since coming to BCC last year, she has made sustainability a core value in setting goals for the academic program on North. She has supported the development of educational events to promote sustainability, highlighted the North Campus Sustainability program at the Adjunct Orientation, and helped organize a Solar Lifestyles program for the college and community that promoted use of solar energy.
She assisted in the development of the Wildflower Grant awarded to the college this year, and has participated in the environmental events on North including hands-on native landscaping workshops with students and faculty, Green Business Week and Focus the Nation. | Natalie Osterhoudt Biology Professor, South Campus
Natalie has helped create a culture of environmental stewardship by organizing Earth Day on South Campus for 5 years, and serving on the South Campus Environmental Awareness Committee since its inception. This year she is coordinating the Wildflower Grant activities for South Campus to educate about sustainable landscaping.
Through her work on the Sustainability Committee over the last five years, Natalie has helped promote BCC’s Sustainability Initiative collegewide. |  |  | Curt Liner Senior Landscape Specialist, Central Campus
Curt is a champion of sustainable landscaping on Central Campus. By propagating and transplanting native plants such a gumbo limbo, firebush, satin leaf, milkweed and wild coffee, he also...
- Conserved college resources while adding beauty to the landscape;
- Teaches new employees about the importance of installing the right plant in the right place; and
- Has installed plants that attract butterflies throughout the campus and is always on call to rescue wildlife. |
| Kathleen Rhoad, Faculty and Career Counselor
Sean Devaney, Manager, South Campus Facilities, Debbie Sloan, Counselor, Terri Justice, Dean of Academic Resources & IT, Patrick Ellingham, English,
South Campus
Combining their talents to raise the level of environmental literacy on South Campus, this group of faculty, staff, and administrators representing academic affairs, student services, student life, and facilities formed a dynamic leadership team to plan the first South Campus Environmental Week in February 2007. Debbie Sloan promoted thirteen screenings of An Inconvenient Truth that reached over 1000 students.
|  | Kathleen Rhode, Terri Justice and Sean Devaney spearheaded the Environmental Fair that brought together 22 community organizations and campus departments with environmental displays. Professor Ellingham guided students in the creation of a student publication, Atmospheric, that included articles, photography, a summary of college sustainability efforts, and suggested actions to improve the environment. The works of the student environmental essay and poster contest winners were featured. The Environmental Sustainability Committee would like to acknowledge the contributions of these Sustainability SuperStars who have contributed so much to the development of a culture of environmental stewardship on South Campus. They are continuing to work as a team to nurture environmental awareness by serving as a steering committee to promote Focus the Nation during the winter term of 2008. | Sean Devaney, Manager, Campus Facilities, South Campus
Sean has modeled sustainable operations on South Campus by encouraging conservation of resources, utilizing native plants in landscaping to earn South Campus Naturescape certification, and authoring the procedures for Facilities that were adopted by all campuses to support a college-wide sustainability policy. He has attended many workshops related to sustainability, and has become an advocate of green building and design through his work with Broward County on the South Campus Regional/BCC Library built to meet LEED silver standards. |  |  | David Fowler, Civil Engineer, Facilities Management -Collegewide
Dave has attended conferences on Sustainability in Higher Education, and has developed expertise in the area of high performance buildings. He has made many recommendations over the last several years to conserve water and energy that have saved the college money while protecting the environment. | Diana Honeyblue-Monroe Administrative Assistant, Student Life, Central Campus
Diana is responsible for organizing (among other things) a student-run cartridge recycling program at BCC. Her enthusiasm has been a model for students, who are now taking the lead in the effort. In the photo, Diana (seated) is surrounded by Central's Cartridge Recycling Team. |  |  | Camron Kyle, Projects Director - Physical Plant, North Campus Camron is an enthusiastic supporter of native landscaping on North Campus, constantly monitoring areas to be sure they are maintained properly. To create the topography for establishing a tropical hardwood hammock, he drove a bulldozer for three days, shaping the land. He is responsible for the donation of 5 native trees for the hammock to replace ones lost in Hurricane Wilma. He proposed a plan for the construction of a dock at our wetland that will serve as an outdoor classroom to enhance the study of the wetland by our students. | Professor Paul Ricker, Business Administration, North Campus
An avid bird watcher, Paul has been a big supporter of the native planting projects on North Campus. In 2004 he volunteered to build an arbor for our new butterfly garden, and recently spent some of his vacation time setting up large native trees uprooted by hurricane Wilma. He is currently planning the construction of another arbor and organizing student volunteers from DECA to remove exotic invasive plants around the campus wetland. | 
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If YOU know a BCC environmental champion, e-mail your nomination to Dr. Peggy Green, chair of the Committee on Environmental Sustainability at pgreen@broward.edu.
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