Live Green! Leadership Team
We are excited to introduce the 2022-2023 Live Green! Leadership Team. Together, we are committed to providing education, engagement and empowerment opportunities to make Iowa State University as green and sustainable as possible for all students, faculty and staff. Please contact us with your ideas and questions, or sign up for our e-mail list to stay in the loop with announcements, volunteer opportunities and more. We look forward to working with you!
E-mail: livegreen@iastate.edu
Director of Sustainability
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Merry RankinAlumna Class of 1987 and 1998Hometown: Attica, IAFavorite Sustainability Quote:“Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.” Aldo LeopoldContact:Merry Rankin, Director of Sustainability |
Sustainability Coordinator
![]() | Noah WeberGraduate Student in Architecture and Real Estate DevelopmentHometown: Brandon, SDFavorite Sustainability Quote:"You have to really believe not only in yourself; you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices." Zaha HadidContact:Noah Weber, Sustainability Coordinator |
Student Intern Leadership Team
![]() | Grant BureshSmart Business Challenge InternJunior, Global Resource Systems and Environmental StudiesHometown: Clive, IAEmail: grburesh@iastate.eduFavorite Sustainability Quote: | |
![]() | Madeline JudasMarketing and Communications InternJunior, Advertising with a minor in PsychologyHometown: Johnston, IAEmail: mpjudas@iastate.eduFavorite Sustainability Quote: | |
![]() | Haylie MooreCampus and Community Engagement InternFreshman, Global Resource Systems and Ag BusinessHometown: Montezuma, IAEmail: hxmoore@iastate.edu“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors. We borrow it from our children.” Chief Seattle | |
![]() | Shelby NechkashSmart Business Challenge InternJunior, Agricultural StudiesHometown: Highland, WIEmail: nechkash@iastate.eduFavorite Sustainability Quote:“Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television.” Aldo Leopold | |
![]() | Elizabeth SmithSTARS / Marketing and Communications InternSenior, Environmental ScienceHometown: Waterloo, IAEmail: edsmith1@iastate.eduFavorite Sustainability Quote: | |
![]() | Haley WegenerCampus and Community Engagement InternJunior, Political Science and Environmental StudiesHometown: Crystal Lake, ILEmail: hwegener@iastate.eduFavorite Sustainability Quote: | |
![]() | Leah ZuberSocial Media Engagement InternJunior, Graphic DesignHometown: Marengo, IAEmail: lkzuber@iastate.eduFavorite Sustainability Quote:“The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.” Robert Swan |