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1 .Listen to a conversation between a student and the Director of the Office of Environmental Sustainability.
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2 .Now, what can I do for you?
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3 .Well, Ms Anderson, I\'m David Bryant. I\'m a journalism major.
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4 .Oh, of course, David, I remember your phone call. You\'re on staff at the campus daily, right, exactly.
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5 .And we\'re going to run a piece to highlight just what it is your office does.
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6 .I don\'t think most of our readers really know.Oh, all right,
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7 .but I\'ve got to keep this short. I have an appointment in just a few minutes, sure.
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8 .Well, all of us in operations try to ensure that the day to day needs of the university are being met,
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9 .but in this office, our particular focus is on figuring out how to do that without compromising resources for future generations,
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10 .okay, but like in what ways, specifically?
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11 .Well, like alternative transportation. We\'ve converted our busses, the entire campus fleet, to biodiesel,
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12 .so now they run on a mix of regular diesel fuel and vegetable oil from Dining Services.
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13 .Cool. I saw these television documentary a couple months ago
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14 .about these college students who traveled across the country in a car they\'d converted to run completely on vegetable oil,
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15 .recycled cooking oil from restaurants.
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16 .But I didn\'t know we\'ve been doing almost the same thing with our busses here on campus. Yeah,
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17 .and the program\'s already paid for itself in savings.
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18 .Also, let\'s see there\'s wind energy.
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19 .We\'ve installed miniature wind turbines on the roofs of several buildings on campus. Really.
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20 .Where are they? I can\'t wait to check them out. Get some good photos.
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21 .Well, they\'re scattered along the edge of the university property, for example, you know where the College of Engineering is?
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22 .Oh, okay, so way out there. No wonder,
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23 .right? And these wind turbines are being used for two purposes, actually,
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24 .to help meet the needs of the campus dormitories for electrical power and also to generate data for a government research project.
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25 .Now, large scale efforts like these may seem the most newsworthy,
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26 .but it\'s important to emphasize the small stuff.
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27 .It\'s generally the little things that have the biggest impact.
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28 .For instance, Dining Services has just implemented a reusable drinking mug program.
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29 .So when students choose to bring in their own ceramic mugs and drink from those instead of from plastic cups,
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30 .well they\'re rewarded by getting 20% off the price of the beverage.
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31 .That\'s because when lots of students do that, the savings to the university are considerable,
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32 .but even more important, we expect this year alone will prevent over 10,000 plastic
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33 .getting thrown landfills.Yeah, you rush through a meal and don\'t really think about that.
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34 .And this office got that project going.
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35 .Yes, we did. Oh, and I\'ve got to get going myself.
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36 .There\'s a ribbon cutting ceremony to open the new library.
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37 .Say, why don\'t you come along?
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38 .We\'ve made sure this library is designed with an eye toward environmental sustainability.
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39 .It\'s even set up to collect rainfall for use in its washrooms,
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40 .and the facilities manager will be there also. I could introduce you.
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