Green Team Members

Since 2000, Mercyhurst College has strived for policies and practices that respect the health and integrity of Earth’s natural systems and promote a vision of social and environmental justice.   A combination of administrative support, the knowledge and good work of physical plant personnel, and student and faculty energy has resulted in considerable campus improvements on such issues as renewable energy, campus waste reduction, and purchasing. 

This work has been coordinated by a loosely organized campus-wide body known as the Mercyhurst Green Team.  Consisting of anywhere from a dozen to 100 or more students, faculty, physical plant staff, and administrators, the Green Team has developed programs and projects that have deepened the spiritual and intellectual commitment of the college to a more sustainable and hopeful future. 

We have learned that sustainability at Mercyhurst is the responsibility of neither the Green Team nor physical plant personnel, but of every member of this community.   Much of what has been achieved in the last few years has come not “from the top,” but from the Mercyhurst grassroots—students, individual faculty members, individual departments and offices doing what they can when they can.  We are all on the Green Team.   

As most of the work of the Green Team gets done in small groups and committees, our meetings are infrequent (about once per term).  For more information on how to get involved, or to offer a suggestion or idea to the Green Team, please contact any of the following individuals:

Dr. Chris J. Magoc, Green Team Faculty Chair, cmagoc@mercyhurst.edu; (814) 824-2075
Margaux Valenti, Student Green Team Representative, mvalenti40@mercyhurst.edu
Zachary Pekor, Student Green Team Representative, zpekor42@mercyhurst.edu

 

Alumni

Here’s what some Mercyhurst graduates who while here helped spearhead Green Team efforts are doing now:

Dave Adams (contract major)
Nevin Welte (Biology)
Kate Cywinski (English)
Stephanie Davison (Political Science, Environmental Politics concentration)
Matt Goodrich
Dana Hyland (Political Science, Environmental Politics concentration)
JoEllen Taylor (History, Social Studies Education)
Megan Rulli (History)
Nathan Moore