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Eco Team (P228)

P – Life Sciences

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Wilmington (Arsht Hall) | September 5, 2024-December 5, 2024

Thursday: 2:30 PM-3:45 PM

The mission of the OLLI Eco Team is to support green behavior in our homes, communities and the world through our actions and education. We are a group that discusses our agenda for the year and breaks into groups to accomplish goals. Our focus for the semester is to implement elements of the UD Sustainability Plan. We develop immediate goals and devise action plans. Prerequisite: Willingness to participate in group actions.

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This offering meets for a total of 13 session(s).


INSTRUCTORS: Judy Winters, Michael Rominger, Mark Mendelson

WINTERS, JUDY–B.S., elementary education, West Chester University; M.Ed., exceptional child, University of Delaware. Retired from teaching in Delaware and New Mexico. Member of Earth Quaker Action Team (EQAT), with 11-plus years as a nonviolent direct-action environmental activist. Currently involved in campaigning for fossil fuel divestment by one of the world’s largest asset-management companies.

ROMINGER, MIKE–Thirty-plus years as process control consultant in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries. Eleven years as facilitator for a national nonprofit addressing sustainable site cleanups. Co-founder of New Castle County Congregations of Delaware Interfaith Power and Light. Interested in the fate of our planet and the role that people play. Enjoys family (especially grandkids!) and friends, travel, tennis and writing.

MENDELSON, MARK–B.S., chemical engineering, Cornell University. Retired in 2021 after 42 years of marketing and business leadership roles in the chemical and polymer industry. Currently supporting the OLLI Eco Team, furthering the OLLI Gathers Plastics! recycling program.


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