Pete Schubert
Pete Schubert
Pete is a longtime Cullowhee Conference attendee, Steering Committee member, and past Conference Director. He retired from a career as a project engineer with the US Army Corps of Engineers and the US Environmental Protection Agency, developing civil works projects and a major sustainable lab and office campus complex in the Triangle Region of NC. Pete holds a BS in Earth and Planetary Sciences from MIT and pursued graduate work at UNC Chapel Hill in Geology. He is passionate about sustainability, was a LEED Accredited Professional through the US Green Building Council, and is a co-founder and past community board member of the South Durham Farmers’ Market. A mostly self-taught naturalist, Pete often leads wildflower, ecology, and geology hikes for local land trusts in natural areas across NC. He serves, or has served, on the boards of the North Carolina Invasive Plant Council, the Eno River Association, and the B.W. Wells Association. He is an active member of the New Hope Audubon Bird-Friendly Habitat team, developing and implementing residential, corporate, school, and community-level habitat improvements with land owners. Pete also performs volunteer stewardship work for the Eno River Association, Ellerbe Creek Watershed Association, Triangle Land Conservancy, NC Botanical Garden, and other local land trusts and managers.