Davis Bookhart was hired in 2006 to create and direct the Sustainability Initiative at Johns Hopkins University. Davis' chargeis to develop and facilitate projects that reduce the negative environmental impacts of the University; inter grate students and faculty into each project to the greatest extent possible; and promote sustainability through collaboration between divisions and involvement in the larger Baltimore community. Davis is also chair of the Johns Hopkins Sustainability Committee, a 16-member group convened by President William R. Brody to boost the University's environmental profile. 

Davis holds a master's degree in International Affairs from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a master's of American Literature from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Before joining the Office of Facilities Management at Homewood Davis co-founded, and remains president of Charm21 - Clean and Healthy Air through Renewables in Maryland - a non-profit group he founded which advocates the use of renewable fuels and resources in the Baltimore region. Davis serves on the Advisory Council for the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) and is a member of the editorial board of Sustainability: The Journal of Record. In 2008 Davis was appointed by Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon to serve a four year term on the City's Commission on Sustainability.

Davis' Environmental Vice: He refuses to replace the incandescent light bulbs in his house with CFLs because he likes the "vintage look and feel".

Leana Houser is the Sustainability Coordinator for the Johns Hopkins University.  Her responsibilities as Sustainability Coordinator include building and bridging lines of communication and cooperation between students, faculty, staff, and the Office of Facilities Management in relation to sustainability issues across the Hopkins' academic divisions.

She received a Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy from St. Mary’s College of Maryland in 1998 and a Masters in Environmental Sciences and Policy from Johns Hopkins University in 2007. In her spare time she savors cooking with her husband using locally grown foods provided by One Straw Farm's Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program.  Leana also digs gardening, hugging the trees in Patterson Park, and occasionally finds her groove supporting live music.

Leana's Environmental Vice: She jet sets to Paris once a month to feed her foie gras habit!

Heather Heine Michaelson is the conservative contingent of the Sustainability Initiative.  Her favorite question is, "But what does it mean for the bottom line?"  She is currently enrolled in the MBA/MSITS program at the Carey Business School of the Johns Hopkins University. 

Rumor has it that she once participated in a two month trip across America in a Volkswagen Bus.

The recycling program is managed by Richard Abraham, a recycling veteran with over 25 years experience in the recycling industry.  Mr. Abraham received his BA from the University of Maryland.  Since he joined Johns Hopkins in 2007, he immediately began reorganizing the recycling program so that it can meet and exceed the high standards expected of our sustainability goals for the campus.

The recycling office is located just beyond the South Gate of the Homewood campus in Wyman Building 3.

JoAnne Hann is the Information Technology Sustainability Coordinator for the Johns Hopkins Sustainability Initiative. She is also the Information Technology Manager for the Homewood Office of Facilities Management. JoAnne's responsibilities as IT Sustainability Coordinator include recommending, communicating and assisting with the deployment of technological solutions to meet the sustainability goals for the University.

JoAnne holds a Master of Science degree in Information Technology from Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from the College of Notre Dame of Maryland. Since engaging with the Sustainability Team, she continues to develop IT contacts at other universities committed to reducing their carbon footprint. She and her husband have created a prosperous organic garden for the past seven years and enjoy cooking, yoga and travel.

JoAnne's Environmental Vice: She enjoys opening windows while the air conditioning is running so she can commune with nature while, at the same time, keep her cool.

Anjali is a senior environmental engineering major. Her work at the Sustainability Initiative deals closely with green buildings and renewable energy, an exciting and growing field that she wishes to pursue after graduation. Anjali enjoys being outdoors as much as possible. She loves to grill, hike, and play soccer. She is a devout fan of the Spanish national soccer team and is most likely one of the few Hopkins students who was disappointed at the USA victory over Spain this year.

Anjali's Environmental Vice: She is currently developing a giant fleet of gas-powered paper airplanes.

Demian Kendall is a senior Writing Seminars and Political Science major at Johns Hopkins University. Demian is the "resident writer" of the Sustainability Initiative, and avoids numbers at all costs, preferring instead to spin beautiful heart-wrenching prose about recycling, climate change, and storm water bio-swales. When he's not writing reports or designing displays for the Sustainability Initiative, he enjoys running, attempting to play golf, making arbitrary Top 20 lists, and rocking out to "Hey Jude" on the keyboard.

After graduation, Demian hopes to attend law school and eventually pursue a career in either environmental or entertainment law. Demian lives in Maryland but still identifies with his home state of Massachusetts and yes, he is one of the those die-hard Patriots fans who still harbors an enormous grudge against the Manning brothers!

Demian's Environmental Vice: He built a man-made waterfall that wastes approximately 3,000,000 gallons of water a year and serves only aesthetic purposes!

Venkat earned his Bachelor's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee and is currently pursuing his Master's Degree in Environmental Engineering from Johns Hopkins University. In the year between his undergraduate and graduate studies, Venkat worked as an assistant engineer at Hindustan Dorr Oliver Ltd. His research interests include developing optimization models with applications to energy modeling, air pollution, optimal reservoir capacity design and routing traffic.

In addition to working as a Sustainability Initiative intern, Venkat is currently working on a project which estimates partition and carry-over biases in the subjective probabilities. It should come to no surprise that he is our "Excel expert", developing cost analysis templates, sustainability project decision matrices and every graph your heart could ever desire! Venkat is a computer game freak who plays Age of Emperors religiously and recently began playing tennis.

Venkat's Environmental Vice: He enjoys ghost-riding his Hummer H3 down St. Paul Street when traffic is light.