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About the Office of Sustainability

The LiveGreen Ambassadors gather for the annual spring cleanup event on March 12th, 2025.

Executive Sustainability Council

Role and Purpose of the Executive Sustainability Council

The Executive Sustainability Council was established in 2016 to ensure achievement of the system’s sustainability goals. Roles are outlined below.

Set sustainability-related vision and goals.
Allocate the resources necessary to achieve campus sustainability goals.
Strategize the effective communication of the importance and impact of sustainability within and outside of the organization.
Determine and enact policy changes that lead toward achievement of campus sustainability goals.
Assist in brainstorming strategies, determining timing for implementation of resource-intensive strategies and coordinating working groups to implement resource-intensive strategies.
Appropriately connect operationally-focused sustainability efforts with academic and patient-focused activities of the organization.
Ensure organizational progress towards the goals.

Executive Sustainability Council Chairs

Dr. Ali Khan, Dean, UNMC College of Public Health.
Jen Bartholomew, Associate Vice Chancellor University of Nebraska Medical Center, Vice President Facilities Management at Nebraska Medicine.
Julie Lazure, Vice President, Nebraska Medicine Operations.

Awards

2013 - Current: Tree Campus USA Award
2025: Practice GreenHealth Award
2021: Better Building Project Showcase, Maurer Center for Public Health
2019: Omaha by Design’s Access and Mobility Award for TravelSmart
2019: Earth Day Omaha’s Friend of the Environment Business Award
2018: MAPA’s Regional Service Award
2018: Centurion Service Group’s Financial Sustainability Gold Award

Grants Awarded

2025: Climate Resilience for Health Care (CR4HC) Toolkit case study (pg. 303) about the med center
2024: Homegrown National Park Habitat Snapshot and project profile for online map
2022: Signatory to HHS Climate Pledge
2019, 2020: NET grant for the campus prairie conversion project
2019, 2024: Nebraska Arboretum Free Trees for Fall Planting
2018: NRC Mini Recycling Grant ($20,000) for recycling bins for Village Pointe

Kelly Johnson

Kelly Johnson

Director of Engineering, Office of Sustainability

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