Lunch & Learn: Climate Action & CCDS

Dennis Carlberg is the Associate Vice President for Sustainability and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth & Environment at Boston University where he focuses on building the programs necessary for mitigating BU’s impacts on climate change, preparing its campuses for climate change, and supporting the integration of sustainability into the curriculum including the creation and administration of the BU Campus Climate Lab. Prior to joining BU in 2009, Dennis was a principal at Arrowstreet, a Boston-based architectural firm where he focused on sustainable design. He began his career at the Solar Energy Research Institute (now the National Renewable Energy Lab) conducting daylighting research to reduce building energy consumption and improve the indoor environment. Dennis co-chairs the Boston Green Ribbon Commission Higher Ed Working Group Executive Committee with Jacob Glickel from Northeastern University. He is the University’s Liaison to the University Climate Change Coalition. He co-chaired the Urban Land Institute Climate Resilience Committee in Boston for a decade and served on many sustainability committees for ULI and Technical Advisory Groups for the City of Boston, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the Association for the Advancement in Higher Education.

At BU he serves on the Antiracism Working Group. He served on the Climate Action Plan Task Force and the advisory boards of the Institute for Sustainable Energy, City Planning and Urban Affairs, BU URBAN, and led the Sustainable Operations section of the BU Strategic Plan.

He received his Master of Architecture from MIT and his Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from UC Berkeley.