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Tammy Clemons is Berea’s new sustainability coordinator,
a two-year grant supported position funded by the Jesse Ball
duPont Fund. Clemons comes to the position from the Berea College
President’s Office, where she has been Executive Assistant
to President Larry Shinn since 2001. She had been employed half-time
at each position since December before moving into her new role
full-time this month.
Berea’s SENS (Sustainability and Environmental Studies)
program, created in 1999, defines sustainability as “the
capacity of a society to meet current needs without degrading
ecological, social, and economic systems on which the society
will rely for meeting future needs.”
As sustainability coordinator, Clemons will be responsible for
integrating and building on Berea’s campus programs related
to stewardship of resources, energy conservation, and recycling
among others and initiating new ones that will move Berea toward
becoming a more sustainable campus. She will also work to foster
collaboration among the areas of teaching, research, campus operations,
student life and community service related to sustainable practices
and education.
Among Clemons’ first projects is creating a “A Guide
to Sustainability at Berea College,” an annotated directory
of programs already going on or planned, a campus “Town
Meeting” and brain-storming session she hosted last week
for sharing ideas about how to move the campus forward in its
commitment to sustainable living.
A native of Mt. Sterling, Clemons graduated from Berea College
in 1999 with a B.A. degree in Women’s Studies, the first
student to earn a degree from Berea in the independent major.
She went on to earn a masters degree from Harvard Divinity School
in World Religions and Women’s Studies. Locally, Clemons
helped found and remains a core member of MERJ (for Madison,
Estill, Rockcastle and Jackson Counties) Market, a sustainable
community center for activities, networking and exchange of goods
and skills, including locally produced foods, which models sustainability
on a broad, local level.
For more information, contact Tammy Clemons at (859) 985-3610
and visit www.berea.edu/ese.
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