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RSSStudent Association creates sustainability director position
May 13, 2009
The Northland College Student Association (NCSA) has created a new student position, Director of Sustainability, to facilitate sustainability initiatives at Northland. The Director of Sustainability will coordinate project selection for the use of the Renewable Energy Fund, which was recently doubled in sized by students, who voted to increase the fees they pay into the fund to $40 a semester, one of the highest green fees in the nation. The director will also create a sustainability award for students who have shown exceptional efforts towards sustainability. He or she will also work to facilitate general advances in the practices, policies, and projects of NCSA and Northland College.
Byron Emmons, a junior majoring in psychology, has been elected to the position for the inaugural year. Emmons will begin his duties and continue the process of defining his job when classes resume in the fall semester. There is no shortage of projects for him to invest his time in, and Emmons’ may begin his efforts by investigating carbon-offsets for NCSA sponsored activities.
“We are all very thrilled about the Director of Sustainability position,” says Drew Cramer, recently elected president of NCSA. “It came about one day when I was thinking about how to make NCSA more sustainable, and how we can be the leaders in this environmental college. We are a smaller organization than the college and change can happen faster for us, so naturally it falls to us to lead. I realized that this could become a fulltime obsession and I wouldn't have time for anything else. So, I created a position that would be in charge of obsessing about saving the world instead.”
