By Jacqui Thompson and Murray Birt
What do you get when you take seven strangers, pile them into two small vehicles, send them on a 1,000 kilometer journey of prairie driving and road kill avoidance? You get a new group of friends learning, and thinking about the sustainability of the University of Calgary. The Sustainable Campuses conference was held in Winnipeg… Continue reading Sustainability
By Jacqui Thompson, Stephanie Ferguson, Darcy Ippolito, Dave Almon, Andrea McIvor, Murray Birt
Imagine a university campus that is completely powered by renewable energy. Imagine a campus where you never have trouble finding a recycling bin. Imagine a campus where all food waste gets composted. Imagine a campus where tuition dollars aren’t flushed down the toilet with wasted energy use. In reality our campus is powered by dirty… Continue reading We need campus sustainability
By Вen Li
Students Murray Birt, Jacqui Thompson, and Nicole Walters attempted to give University of Calgary President Dr. Harvey Weingarten quite a jolt on Tue., Oct. 19. They had planned to present him with a certificate representing three years worth of solar energy for his desktop computer. Unfortunately, Weingarten was in China at the time, so U… Continue reading Energy Certificate Presentation