Mississippi is definitely behind the times, as evidenced by the fact that my employer, USM, just created an Office of Sustainability this fall and there webstite just went livet this week. You can imagine where businesses are at in the state, if universities are just now catching on to green. Nonetheless, it's a move in the right direction and I'm gld for it.
Here is the Office of Sustainability's site: usm.edu/green
Our goals at Southern Miss are to be the model of sustainable thought and practice within our state and region. While we can “do” projects to “go” green, the end-game of our entire initiative is to “be” green. To do so, we have to affect the cognitive processes of our institution on every level. Every plan we make and every action we take should begin with consideration of the tenets of sustainability. As the first dedicated office of sustainability in the state, with the first full-time professional sustainability staff, we strive everyday to make such a cultural transformation a reality.
1 comments:
Awesome. Highly encouraging that such a commitment is being made deep in the heart of the South. They haven't always been quick to adapt to the times (see: slavery, segregation, dental hygiene, Jeff Foxworthy). However, 'conservative' and 'conservation' do sound pretty similar, don't they?
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