This week's interview is with Joanne Perdue, Director of Sustainability for the University of Calgary. Before joining the university, Joanne worked for many years as an architect on high performance green buildings. One of her most notable projects was the C.K. Choi Building at the University of British Columbia, a groundbreaking green building for its time. Joanne believes that when institutions take the lead in modeling sustainability they will in turn produce students who will demonstrate principles of sustainability in their personnel and professional lives. Continue reading to learn more about the work Joanne and the University of Calgary are doing.
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food choices
Raising livestock creates more harm to the planet than do all the cars, and yet there are very few vegetarian and almost no vegan optins on campus.
How can a student make an environmentally concious decision when they have such few options.
In addition, I also feel like there is this resistance to the vegetarian diet - Perhaps if we educated students more (on an eco-level) they would understand that eavery meal makes a difference and that reducing your footprint by reducing animal-product intake does not necessarily mean becoming veg'n.
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