Roslynn McCann

Biography

Dr. Roslynn Brain McCann is a Sustainable Communities Extension Specialist in the Department of Environment and Society, College of Natural Resources at Utah State University. She applies conservation theory, communication techniques, and social marketing tools to foster environmental behaviors in the areas of land (conservation, reducing, reusing and recycling), air (quality and climate change), food (consuming locally with a focus on CSA’s and farmer’s markets), water (quality, quantity, water resilient landscaping), and energy (efficiency and renewable energy), in an overall effort to drawdown greenhouse gas sources and sinks. Roslynn also teaches communicating sustainability, helps facilitate the National Extension Sustainability Summit, is the climate change liaison for the Extension Committee on Organization and Policy, serves on the National Extension Climate Initiative steering committee, co-runs the Utah High School Clean Air Marketing Contest, and is the coordinator for Utah Farm-Chef-Fork, the USU Permaculture Initiative, and Sustainable You! kids’ camps.