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Sustainability Advisory Committee

Description

The Sustainability Advisory Committee will advise and support the City’s commitment pursuant to the Global Covenant of Mayors to develop a Climate Action Plan for the city of Nashville. The Committee also will provide advice on a range of sustainability issues and review active proposals as they are being advanced and implemented by the Mayor and Metro Council through legislation, executive orders, policy changes and practices.

Read about Mayor Cooper’s initiatives to combat climate change and promote sustainability and joining of the Global Covenant of Mayors.

The Committee will draw on best practices and synthesize and prioritize the good work that already has been done to implement sustainability plans and recommendations for the City—including the work of Livable Nashville, NashvilleNext, the Green Ribbon Committee and Plan to Play.

Committee members represent various perspectives surrounding sustainability efforts, including those of nonprofit agencies, businesses and academia.

Related Department

Mayor's Office

Members

Eric Kopstain, Vanderbilt University vice chancellor for administration, and Linda Breggin, senior attorney with the Environmental Law Institute, project director for the Nashville Food Waste Initiative and lecturer at Vanderbilt Law School, will co-chair.

Subcommittees

Name	Organization	Subcommittee
Linda Breggin	Environmental Law Institute and NRDC’s Nashville Food Waste Initiative	Co-chair
Eric Kopstain	Vanderbilt University	Co-chair
David Bailey	Hastings Architecture	Green Buildings
Holly Baird	MilePost	Green Buildings
Sue Ballard de Ruiz	Tennessee State University	Mobility
Darek Bell	Bell Construction	Green Buildings
Jason Carney	Tennessee Solar Energy	Energy
Michael Connolly	CSX	Mobility
Terry Cook	The Nature Conservancy	Natural Resources
Anne Davis	Attorney	Energy
Mark Deutschmann	Village Real Estate Services, Core Development Services; ULI	Mobility
Paul Farley	Waste Management	Waste Reduction
Bob Freeman	State representative; Freeman Applegate Partners	Green Buildings
Dodd Galbreath	Lipscomb University	Natural Resources
Brian Gant	SCS Engineers; Chamber of Commerce representative	Mobility
Amanda Garcia	Southeastern Environmental Law Center	Green Buildings
Gary Gaston	Nashville Civic Design Center	Mobility
Beth Prichard Geer	Office of Al Gore	Natural Resources
Andrea George	Vanderbilt University	Waste Reduction
Erin Hafkenschiel	Vanderbilt University	Mobility
Brad Hall	Office of Al Gore	Energy
Singwe Herring	Earth Matters	Waste Reduction
Rob Horton	Trap Gardens	Natural Resources
Mekayle Houghton	Cumberland River Compact	Natural Resources
Daniel Joranko	Vanderbilt University Divinity School	Energy
Nora Kern	Walk Bike Nashville	Mobility
Steve Law	Tennessee Parks and Greenways Foundation	Natural Resources
David Lawrence	Hines	Natural Resources
Todd Lawrence	Urban Green Lab	Waste Reduction
Geoff MacDonald	Vanderbilt University	Energy
Liz Edsall McLaurin	Land Trust for Tennessee	Resilience/Adaptation
Jaclyn Mothupi	Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation	Resilience/Adaptation
Jenny Park	The Trust for Public Land	Natural Resources
Katie Poss	Turner Construction Company	Waste Reduction
David Proffitt	Metro Nashville Public Schools	Energy
Ian Prunty	Building Robotics Inc.	Green Buildings
John Sherman	Solid Waste Board	Waste Reduction
Kim Shinn	TLC Engineering Solutions	Green Buildings
Ryan Stanton	Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation	Energy
Grace Stranch	Sierra Club, Middle Tennessee	Waste Reduction
David ter Kuile	Vanderbilt University	Waste Reduction
Mary Vavra	Transit Now Nashville	Mobility
Robert Waits	Hodgson Douglas	Natural Resources
Ed Wansing	The Compost Company	Waste Reduction
Erica Weeks	Hastings Architecture	Green Buildings
Tiffany Wilmot	Wilmot Inc.	Energy
Robert Wingfield	Fisk University	Energy
Manuel Zeitlin	Manuel Zeitlin Architects	Green Buildings

Energy

Chairs: Anne Davis, attorney; Tiffany Wilmot, president of Wilmot Inc.

Green Buildings

Chairs: Bob Freeman, Tennessee General Assembly state representative and partner at Freeman Applegate Partners; Amanda Garcia, managing attorney at the Tennessee office of the Southeastern Environmental Law Center

Mobility

Chairs: Erin Hafkenschiel, executive director of mobility at Vanderbilt University; Mary Vavra, Transit Now Nashville

Natural Resources

Chairs: Mekayle Houghton, executive director of the Cumberland River Compact; Jenny Park, state director for The Trust for Public Land

Waste Reduction

Chairs: Todd Lawrence, executive director of the Urban Green Lab; John Sherman, Solid Waste Regional Planning Board

Resilience/Adaptation

Chairs: Liz McLaurin, president and CEO of The Land Trust for Tennessee; Jaclyn Mothupi, regional director of external affairs for the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation