About Us

Principal:
Wynn Calder

Associates:

Don Bailey Energy Consultant


William “Wynn” Calder

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Wynn directs Sustainable Schools. With over 15 years of experience in the field of education for sustainability, he works with K-12 schools, colleges and universities to build environmental literacy and sustainability into strategic planning, teaching and institutional practice. He facilitates professional development workshops, consults on topics such as sustainable operations and sustainability in the curriculum, and conducts campus sustainability assessments. Since 2003, Wynn has been primary consultant on sustainability with the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS). He developed and chaired the annual NAIS Summer Institute for Leadership in Sustainability from 2005 through 2009.

Wynn is also co-director of the Association of University Leaders for a Sustainable Future (ULSF), which serves as secretariat for signatories of the Talloires Declaration (1990). He has been with ULSF since 1997.

Wynn was review editor for the Journal of Education for Sustainable Development (Sage) from 2007-2016, and has written extensively on the topic of education for sustainability. Wynn is a co-founder of the U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development and he is a member of the expert advisory group of the Green Schools Alliance.

Prior to joining ULSF, Wynn worked for six years at Harvard University in academic counseling, admissions and administration. From 1984 to 1986, he taught history and was an assistant director of admissions at Milton Academy. Wynn attended Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia. He received his Bachelors degree from Harvard University in 1984 and his Master’s from Harvard Divinity School in 1993. Wynn lives with his family in Wayland, MA.

Don Bailey

After a long engineering career in flight control system research and development, Don is currently established as a consultant with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) doing Energy and Waste Management Assessments on Minnesota schools, government buildings, and commercial businesses.  He has developed an Assessment Integrated Support System, A_SYS, for MPCA which provides reference technical material, bill data compilation and analysis facilities, and extensive energy, water and waste savings computation capability, as well as automated upload of energy and water use data to EPA Energy Star Portfolio Manager.