Professional Staff
Jack DeBell
Recycling Program Development Director
It's time to take a positive look at work being done for recycling goals, Boulder County Business Report, May 1999
Jack DeBell has directed the University of Colorado’s recycling program as a State employee since 1985. Prior to 1985, he worked for CU Recycling as a student and applied his coursework to develop operational, managerial, and promotional aspects of the program.
His accomplishments include teaching a certification and internship program for students interested in recycling careers, publishing a Decision Makers Guide to Recycling, serving on the National Recycling Coalition's Board of Directors, and co-creating the College and University Recycling Council. He was recognized with the University’s highest staff honor, the Robert Stearns Award, in 1997.
With Jack's assistance, C.U. Recycling has gained widespread recognition including Colorado’s Recycler of the Year in 1988, the EPA’s Pollution Prevention Award in 1992, the National Recycling Coalition award for Outstanding School Recycling Program in 1995, and most recently, the Office of Federal Environmental Executive’s Model Campus Recycling Program award in 1999.
Phone: (303) 492-8307
E-mail: debell@colorado.edu
Dan Baril
Recycling Program Manager
The most recent stop on the path of life for Dan Baril has led him to the position of Recycling Program Manager for the University of Colorado at Boulder. Dan decided to take on the responsibility of recycling at CU in the Spring of 2006, bringing him to be involved in one of the most established
campus recycling programs in the Nation.
This CU Recycling Program is an appropriate destination for Dan¹s path since many of his steps to get here were walked next to bottles and cans. Starting his recycling mentality at Babson College, where he managed and expanded the campus recycling program to include all residence halls and a
sorting process to generate revenue from the waste stream. While earning a B.S. in Business Administration with a focus on Entrepreneurship, Dan also served as an intern to the Recycling Coordinator for the City of Nashua, NH. This experience provided a direct knowledge of the impacts that a recycling center has on a city¹s waste stream.
After college graduation, Dan spent his summers recycling at music festivals with the company Clean Vibes. This company was the clean up crew for festivals such as Bonnaroo, High Sierra, All Good, Berkshire Mountain Music Festival, Gathering of the Vibes, and many more. The great part about this
company was their emphasis on recycling while also cleaning up all other trash in the process, right down to the cigarette butts. After cleaning up the solid waste that 100,000 people produce at a 4 day festival, Dan has seen the need to establish recycling as a standard habit practiced by all
individuals.
With the CU Recycling program, Dan can help to foster a sense of environmental stewardship among students for them to carry with them for the rest of their lives. Day to day functions involve managing the recycling student staff, who are the life force of the recycling program, organizing recycling at special events on campus, working with the outreach team to spread awareness of recycling on campus, and working with the Green Teams to reach the students off campus.
Beyond recycling, Dan spends his time snowboarding, hiking, B Boying, mixing records, and going to see live music. Dan also strives to exercise regularly and eat healthy, as positive mentality can be directly related to physical well-being.
phone: 303-492-8307
email: baril@colorado.edu
Rob Hall
Energy Program Manager
Rob started as Energy Program Manager in October 2006 and spends most of his time working on the successful campus energy campaigns created by his predecessor, Ghita Levenstein-Carroll. These campaigns raise awareness of renewable energy, energy conservation, and climate change issues.
Rob has a BA in Liberal Arts with a Fine Arts concentration from Temple University and a BS in Marketing, with a minor in resource geography, from the University of Arizona.
As a contractor to the federal Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Climate Leaders program, Rob has measured the greenhouse gas emissions of electric utilities and large corporations such as Xerox, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Miller Brewing and Steelcase furniture. He has authored several reports for the utility industry on topics such as wind power markets and technology trends, technical obstacles to using biomass in coal plants, and marketing energy products to utility customers. Before that Rob did sales for a solar electric company.
phone: 303-492-8308
email: robert.hall@colorado.edu
Sarah Dawn Haynes 
Programs Assistant
Sarah Dawn was introduced to The Environmental Center in 2005 through the Colorado Bioneers, which is hosted on campus annually by the Ecenter. After transferring in January of 2006 from Front Range Community College, she was eager to engage in the opportunities beyond classes available at the University. After volunteering with the promotions of Bioneers on campus, she began working as a promotions assistant. Later, she became the promotions and volunteer student coordinator.
In December of 2008 she graduated with a B.A. in Environmental Policy with a minor in Geography. The new year of 2009 gave way to a new support position at the Ecenter, Programs Assistant, which Sarah Dawn is elated to have filled. Her aspirations for the new position are to help students thrive by connecting them to leadership positions, internships and professional networks and to help them connect the dots between social justice and sustainability to achieve true sustainability and social uplift. She manages volunteers, general promotions, conference and event support and is an overall helping hand for the centers program managers.
When she is not gushing about Bioneers, she enjoys working with Wildlands Restoration Volunteers, working with youth in various capacities, edutaining her young nephew Seth and three godchildren, and kissing on her dalmation, Nemesis. She grew up in Bailey, CO and has lived in Boulder since 2002.
Dana Kelly
Office Manager
Dana
Kelly has been with the Environmental Center
since 1995. She is a graduate of the University of
Texas at Austin. She enjoys
hiking, mountaineering, and snowboarding in Colorado's backcountry. Dana, her husband Darren and their 3-year old son Dylan can often be found at the local soccer fields.
Phone:
(303) 492-8308
E-mail: dkelly@colorado.edu
Marianne Moulton Martin
Associate Director
Marianne Moulton Martin has been with the Environmental Center since 1998. Currently as Associate Director, Marianne is responsible for the daily operations of the Center and manages finances, communications, promotions and marketing, and events including the Boulder Bioneers and Colorado Sustainability Summit conferences. She also works with student staff on campus sustainability initiatives such as sustainable food, reducing toxics and purchasing. Marianne served a year-long term as Interim Director of the Center in 2005.
Marianne earned a BA in Environmental Conservation, Sociology and Economics in 1995 from CU-Boulder. While a CU student, she coordinated activities for the Wilderness Study Group and conducted roadless area surveys on the Routt National Forest. In 1993, she conducted grant-funded research "The Impacts of Transitioning from Extractive Industries to Tourism-based Economies: Case Studies of Rural Communities in Southwestern Colorado".
Marianne has also been active with conservation organizations such as the Southern Rockies Ecosystem Project and Colorado Wild. She was the Assistant Director of SREP (1995-1998) and served as Treasurer on the SREP Board of Directors until 2004.
Marianne is also President of Burrell School Vineyards and Winery in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California. She eventually plans to take on a more active role in the family owned and operated business but in the meantime, Marianne enjoys the seasons of Nederland where she lives with her husband Bill Martin. Interests and activities include cooking, telemark skiing and organic gardening.
Phone: (303) 492-8307
E-mail: marianne.moulton@colorado.edu
Dave Newport
Director
Dave Newport was appointed Director, Environmental Center, University of Colorado-Boulder, in December 2005. Dave’s background is in environmental and sustainability research, teaching, publishing, and public service.
Dave comes to Boulder from his previous post as the University of Florida’s first Director of the Office of Sustainability. At UF, he researched and published higher educations’ first sustainability report compiled to global business standards, led global efforts aimed at unifying sustainability reporting in higher education, sheparded a plan to make the nation’s fourth largest university “a global leader in sustainability,” launched a zero-waste program that has since become UF’s 2025 target for all operations, and published carbon-neutrality research and planning designed to make the university climate-neutral. Dave also taught UF’s Honors Program Sustainability course, community leadership courses, and lectured extensively on campus greening and transparency.
Dave was a county commissioner from 1998-2002 and elected Chairman of the Alachua County Commission (Gainesville, Florida) in 2000. As Commissioner, he championed renewable energy and energy conservation efforts and sustainability policies for the county. Dave remains a board member and Strategic Policy Director for Cross Creek Initiative, Inc., a Florida-based non-profit that works with public and private sector clients on green building, energy, and sustainability planning.
At CU, Dave also teaches a Campus Carbon Neutrality Planning Course in the Environmental Studies Department, and Chairs CU's Carbon Neutrality Working Group.
He is active in national sustainability issues as Secretary of the Board of Directors for the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. Prior to joining AASHE's Board, Dave helped create the Sustainability Tracking and Ratings Systems (STARS), a set of campus sustainability metrics similar to the LEED system--and dubbed by the Chronicle for Higher Education as the "gold standard of campus sustainability metrics."
Dave Newport in 1985 founded Florida Environments Magazine, a regional environmental news publication. From 1985 to 1997 Florida Environments' staff and Dave won many awards including Florida Audubon Environmental Journalist of the Year and the 1000 Friends of Florida Al Burt Award for Environmental Journalism.
Previously, Dave was laboratory director and instructor in the Environmental Science Technology department at Sanata Fe College in Gainesville, Florida where he taught advanced environmental analytical techniques. From 1976-1981 Dave was a research technician with the National Council of the Paper Industry and as an EPA contractor where he helped develop analytical methods for isolating and quantifying air and water pollutants.
Dave is completing a Masters of Science degree in Energy Resource Management and Policy from the University of Maryland, University College. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Syracuse University, management and communications, and an Associate of Science degree from Santa Fe College in Environmental Science Technology. Dave is also a Fellow of the American Hospital Association’s Healthy Community Leadership program, a LEED accredited professional for green building by the US Green Building Council, and a Stephen Covey-certified leadership trainer.
Dave has written, published, and presented widely on the topics of sustainability reporting, campus greening, and the practices and principles of sustainability and leadership. Dave has served on dozens of related boards and committees including US Environmental Protection Agency Higher Education Sector Performance Monitoring Task Force (current) and ULSF-UNEP-GRI Sustainability Indicators Working Group.
A beekeeper and fisherman, recumbent bicycler, and combined-driving horse-carriage competitor, Dave also plays the pedal steel guitar. He is married to Nancy Lockhart Newport and together they have five children ages 15-30.
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Phone: (303) 492-8308
Email: dave.newport@colorado.edu
Peter Roper
Transportation Program Manager
Peter first joined the Environmental Center in 1999 as a volunteer for the Green Teams recycling program, an off-campus recycling outreach program. Since then, he has worked for recycling, both sorting and gathering, and more recently for the transportation program as the bicycle coordinator. In that position, he worked to create a central bicycle ³station² and a bicycle rental program available for the campus community.
Today, Peter manages the transportation program for the Environmental Center, which includes the student bus pass, bicycle programs, transportation research, outreach and promotions. Additionally, the program seeks to spark and foster student initiative, through independent study projects, academic projects and independent student organizations.
Peter graduated from the University of Colorado in 2004 with a B.A. in Economics, and has a personal interest in regional and urban planning. He has practiced a car-free lifestyle for over a year and hopes to share the positive experience with his community. In addition to cycling and urban lifestyle, Peter is a wild advocate of backcountry winter sports, and participates with local groups and guides to introduce new friends.
Phone: 303-492-6486
Email: peter.roper@colorado.edu
Will Toor
Former Director
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