Campus Energy and Sustainability Podcast

Episode 8: Campus as a Living Laboratory


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(Left to right) Rachelle Haddock, Liska Richer, and Caroline Savage with Elke Schreiner at the 2017 California Higher Education Sustainability Conference at the University of California, Santa Barbara

Guests:  

  • Liska Richer, Manager of SEEDs Sustainability Program at the University of British Columbia

  • Rachelle Haddock, Project Coordinator Campus as a Learning Lab at the University of Calgary

  • Caroline Savage, Campus as a Lab Director at Princeton

Host: Dave Karlsgodt, Principal, Fovea, LLC

In this episode you’ll hear a round-robin interview with three different thought leaders who run programs focused on using their campuses as a test-bed for sustainability. They all facilitate the use of campus resources to connect students, faculty and staff to hands-on, sustainable projects at their universities.  They discuss the many common terms used for these programs including "campus as living lab", "campus as a learning lab", "applied learning." Each guest talks about the logistics of how their programs are structured, funded and evolving. They also share their insights on the major challenges and opportunities related to Campus as Lab projects in the broader picture of sustainable development and higher education.

Web Resources:
  • Campus as a Living Laboratory for Sustainability
    Community of Practice Document Share:  http://tinyurl.com/CALDrive

  • University of British Columbia - SEEDS Sustainability Program
    Website: https://sustain.ubc.ca/courses-teaching/seeds
    Email: Liska Richer [email protected]

  • Sustainability at the University of Calgary
    Website: http://www.ucalgary.ca/sustainability

  • Sustainability at Princeton University - About Campus as Lab
    Website: https://sustain.princeton.edu/lab/about

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