{"id":15665,"date":"2020-04-30T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/?p=15665"},"modified":"2020-04-29T14:41:13","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T20:41:13","slug":"carbon-neutrality-qa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2020\/04\/carbon-neutrality-qa\/","title":{"rendered":"Carbon Neutrality Q&A"},"content":{"rendered":"

How does the Rocky Mountain weather make moving toward carbon neutrality easier or harder?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u201cWell, our sunshine affects it in a positive way. Solar is pretty financially viable in most places in the world anymore, but in a place like Colorado where we\u2019ve got on average 300 days of sun, it\u2019s especially good. However, it\u2019s challenging in that we\u2019re still a heating-driven climate. Most of our buildings need more heating than cooling throughout the year and that requires a substantial source of energy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 Ian Johnson, director of sustainability<\/p>\n

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How can alumni get involved?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u201cJoin Tiger Link (coloradocollege.edu\/tigerlink). Once on the website it will take only seconds to copy your LinkedIn profile to Tiger Link. Once copied, join our first group \u2013 Climate Change Professionals \u2014 with over 200 members. Tiger Link will allow you to connect with other alumni working in this space as well as current students who may be interested in connecting with you for information, help with research, internships, and jobs. Your human capital is valuable.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 John L. Knight Professor of Economics Mark Griffin Smith<\/p>\n

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What else do we all need to consider when it comes to environmental challenges, on-campus and off?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve come to believe that our primary barriers to solving environmental challenges do not lie in the technical details of how the world around us works or the solutions we require. To be sure, both of those remain vitally important, especially the latter. And yet, I fear none of those solutions will take hold at the scale and pace that we require unless we focus above all on our increasingly decaying community bonds. Last year, when asked to write a think piece on my field for one of its core journals, I concluded with this: \u2018The path our country and world follows will not rest upon the next article any one of us publishes. It will rest upon the community we all choose to build\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 Provost and Professor of Environmental Science Alan Townsend, quoted from \u201cThe Community We All Choose to Build,\u201d for Inside Higher Education<\/em><\/p>\n

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How did the campus geography lend itself to geothermal on Tava Quad?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u201cThe fact that we have open spaces without buildings on them, and ones that are designated to remain that way forever, make it feasible. Something like the library needs a fairly large geo-exchange field. We needed to be able to access that fairly readily in order to drill. It tore up the quad for the duration of a summer, but beyond that, you can\u2019t really see the impacts of the installation. That quad remains largely the same visually as it did before. If that had been slated for development, that would have made it more difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 Ian Johnson, Director of Sustainability<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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