Who We Are

Gear Background

The Green Living Toolkit was produced by our region’s most dedicated and experienced sustainability experts with the support of the Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation. Partners from more than a dozen organizations curated and organized our community’s best resources for sustainable living on Florida’s Suncoast—guides, tools, videos, classes, events, supply lists, and available experts! The Green Living Toolkit is everything you need to love life and live green, all in one place.

Steering Committee

Lee Hayes Byron

Director
Sarasota County UF/IFAS
Extension and Sustainability

David Shafer

Co-Executive Director
Science and Environment
Council of Southwest Florida

Jennifer Shafer

Co-Executive Director
Science and Environment
Council of Southwest Florida

Alyssa Vinson

Residential Horticulture Agent/
Master Gardener Volunteer Coordinator
Manatee County UF/IFAS Extension

Darcy Young

Watershed Outreach Manager / Interim Executive Director
Narragansett Bay Estuary Program

Expert Committees

Energy

Lea Harper

Manatee County Energy,
Sustainability and
Buildings Division

Sara Kane

Sarasota County UF/IFAS
Extension and Sustainability

Sean Sellers

Suncoast Climate Justice Coalition

Jeff Vredenburg

City of Sarasota Sustainability

Water

Mollie Holland

Sarasota County Neighborhood
Environmental Stewardship Team

Abbey Tyrna

Suncoast Waterkeeper

Alyssa Vinson

Manatee County UF/IFAS Extension

Darcy Young

Narragansett Bay Estuary Program

Nature

Katherine Clements

Sarasota County UF/IFAS
Extension and Sustainability

Sabrina Cummings

Conservation Foundation
of the Gulf Coast

Sarah Dennison

Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast

Nathalie Smith

Sarasota County Parks, Reserves
and Natural Resources

Karen Willey

Sarasota Audubon and Florida
Native Plant Society

Food/Waste

Emily Grant

FoodRecovery.org

Joyce Norris

Community Harvest SRQ

Randy Penn

Sarasota County UF/IFAS
Extension

Tracie Troxler

Sunshine Community Compost

Development Team

Shafer Consulting

Quigley Environmental Consulting

O’Hara Communications

Bazany Design

 

The Green Living Toolkit is a project of the Science and Environment Council of Southwest Florida, our community’s hub of environmental leadership. As a non-profit consortium of the 40 leading science-based environmental non-profit and government organizations in Sarasota and Manatee Counties, we are our community’s trusted environmental scientists, educators and natural resource managers. Our network serves as a catalyst and multiplier creating powerful synergy and leverage among our member organizations and the community to initiate and accomplish impactful projects no one organization would pursue on its own.