Alethea Cariddi, M.S. Ed.

Alethea Cariddi is the Director of Sustainability at the University of New England, where she is responsible for monitoring and managing greenhouse gas emissions and the university’s Climate Action Plan, waste reduction and recycling initiatives, sustainable transportation alternatives and many other environmental initiatives.  Alethea works closely with the Facilities Management team to improve equipment efficiencies and implement energy savings measures with lighting retrofits and direct digital control upgrades.  She received her Building Operator Certification from Northwest Energy Efficiency Council in May 2012, and her Certified Energy Manager credential in February 2022.  Her pragmatism in addressing costs associated with conservation initiatives and finding creative funding and logistical solutions has been an asset in advocating and winning champions for efficiency improvements and emissions reductions. 

 

Alethea received her Masters of Science in Education from Alfred University in 1998 and occasionally teaches at UNE as an adjunct instructor.  She works closely with students in other capacities as well; she manages 10 workstudy students in the Eco-Rep program, developing their peer leadership, event and project management skills. 

 

Alethea owns a small farm in Gray, Maine, where you can find her milking goats, making cheese and yogurt, beekeeping, raising laying hens and weeding an organic garden.