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Office of Sustainability Staff

Tufts University was among the very first to make sustainability a high priority in its teaching, planning, and operations. The Office of Sustainability is continuing this tradition of being a forerunner by choosing the ambitious approach of fostering change on a university-wide level.

Program Director

Sarah Creighton Sarah Hammond Creighton directs the Tufts Office of Sustainability and the Tufts Climate Initiative.  She has twenty years of experience in campus greening, campus sustainability, climate change action, green buildings, energy efficiency, and renewables.  She is also chair of the Manchester Essex Regional School Building Committee, where she chairs a team building a new green public school, currently on time and on budget.

Previously Creighton was Project Manager of Tufts CLEAN!, a program to reduce Tufts University’s environmental impacts and Energy Conservation Planner for the Massachusetts Division of Capital Asset Management, the state agency that builds state buildings.  She is author of Greening the Ivory Tower:  Improving the Environmental Track Record of Universities, Colleges and Other Institutions, and co-author of Degrees that Matter: Climate Change and the University

Ms. Creighton holds a B.S. in Physics from Bates College and an M.S. in Environmental Policy and Civil and Environmental Engineering from Tufts.  

Project Coordinator

Tina Woolston Tina Woolston joined the Office of Sustainability in September of 2007 and holds a B.S. and M.S. in Animal Science and Ruminant Nutrition from Cornell University. She was one of the 1,000 people trained by Al Gore to give the Inconvenient Truth slideshow as part of The Climate Project. At Tufts she focuses on the office's outreach and education programs for the University's faculty, staff and students. An Ex-college class, the Eco-Ambassador program for staff and working with students on events such as Focus the Nation are examples of a few of the projects. Tina also works with departments such as Purchasing, Publications and Dining to brainstorm ways to green their operations. Prior to joining Tufts, Tina was the Program Manager for Sustainability at Earthwatch Institute where she worked on office greening initiatives.