PROFILE IN SUSTAINABILITY 
Graduate Student in Resource Administration & Management and former UOS staffer
How will your work at the University Office of Sustainability (UOS) relate to your new graduate studies in resource administration and management?
At UOS, I have learned that communication and working together as a community are key components to mobilizing sustainability. I have also been exposed to the latest ideas, technology, projects, and policies out there that are trying to solve the bigger problems that threaten our sustainability. Pursuing a master's degree will allow me to learn more ways to motivate communities to use their natural resources responsibly and to research ways to utilize our resources more effectively.
What is "Go Green with the Wildcats?"
The first football game of the year on September 5th will be a green event to set recycling and sustainability more broadly as standards that will hopefully carry on throughout the year at all athletic events. Wildcat Corporate Partners will have tables around the stadium displaying their environmentally-friendly products and services. Volunteers will be there to remind fans to recycle. It is great that UNH Athletics is giving fans ways to lessen their environmental footprints.
What motivates you personally to be involved in sustainability?
What could be more rewarding than working to sustain all life here on our one planet? I believe that we can evolve to live in balance with our surroundings and each other. My involvement in sustainability can best be summed up in a quote from Tracy Kidder's book Mountains Beyond Mountains (2004, 79): "How could a just God permit great misery? The Haitian peasants answered with a proverb:...’God gives but doesn't share.’ This meant...God gives us humans everything we need to flourish, but he's not the one who's supposed to divvy up the loot. That charge was laid upon us.’"
