Sustainability at Antioch College: Classrooms, Campus, Co-op, Community

Kim Landsbergen

Kim Landsbergen is an ecologist who uses physiological and biogeochemical methods to study carbon and water dynamics in terrestrial systems, usually in the context of climate change, invasive plants, urban ecosystems, and land management. Prof. Landsbergen is a certified senior ecologist with the Ecological Society of America and owner of CarbonEcology Consulting. She has published more than 20 peer-reviewed ecology papers in scientific journals. She also holds an appointment as Visiting Research Scholar with Ohio State University’s Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology. Kim joins the faculty most recently from the Columbus College of Art and Design, where she was an ‘embedded professor of science’. There she taught courses with themes in ecology, biomimicry, sustainable design, and infographics—the visual communication of scientific information. Previously, she taught at Ohio University in the Environmental and Plant Biology and Environmental Science programs. Community engaged practice from an ecological perspective can take many forms.

Sean Payne

Sean Payne, Assistant Professor of Political Economy, received a Ph.D in the Urban and Public Affairs Program at the University of Louisville in 2013 with a concentration in public administration, public policy, and political economy. Payne previously taught political science as an instructor at the University of Louisville, and also taught courses in economics, international relations, and globalization as a teaching assistant for the University of Louisville and the University of Connecticut. He has been published in the third and fourth editions of Contemporary Cases in U.S. Foreign Policy: From Terrorism to Trade featuring the following topics: “The Politics of Climate Change: A Consensus for Copenhagen?” and “The Kyoto Protocol and Beyond: The Politics of Climate Change.”