Kara Ko will be working as an Energy Management Assistant until Spring, 2001. Hopefully you will get a chance to meet Kara as she works to improve the efficiency of buildings and helps our Sustainability Coordinators implement electricity savings measures for their common areas. We have developed a partnership with The Faculty of Agricultural Sciences to fund a part-time position for a new initiative called UBC Seeds . Brenda Sawada coordinates this program. UBC Seeds provides students with internship or applied research opportunities relating to sustainability.
Students earn academic credit and staff gain research pertinent to their areas of operation.
A pilot will begin in January 2001. Worm Composting Workshops for Offices or Home. I came to UBC to acquire an understanding of the challenges facing our world, hoping to gain enough knowledge that I might someday be able to effectively diagnose our society's woes and solve the planet's problems. We are beginning to realize that nature is as efficient as it is beautiful. By applying the same cyclic, conservative principles to human practices and technology, we can begin to create a more sustainable society.