Tom Kelly

Tom Kelly is the first director of the Office of Sustainability (OS) at the University of New Hampshire, where he collaborates with faculty, staff, students and others in the development of teaching, research, policy and outreach activities related to the OS’s four educational initiatives in biodiversity, ecosystems, and public health; climate and energy; culture and sustainability, and food, agriculture, and nutrition. He has been working in the field of higher education and sustainable development for more than fifteen years in the US as well as in Colombia and Brazil. Current activities include serving on the planning and program committee for the UNH Master’s of Public Health Program and teaching in the MPH option in Public Health Ecology. He serves on the steering committees for the Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group and the advisory committee for the Community, Food and Agriculture Program at Cornell University and the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE). He is working with colleagues in the UNH College of Life Science and Agriculture on the New England Organic Dairy project at UNH as well as the New Hampshire Center for a Food Secure Future. He is also a founding member of the Northeast Campus Sustainability Consortium working to coordinate activities in New England for the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development.

Schumacher College is part of the Dartington Hall Trust, a company limited by guarantee, registered in England and as a charity (company no. 1485560, charity no. 279756). Registered office: The Elmhirst Centre, Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon TQ9 6EL, UK.