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Little by little, says Rochelle Owen, director of the Office of Sustainability. By starting with incremental change鈥攍ike powering down our computers when we leave the office in the evening鈥攚e begin to think about other aspects of our lives. Next thing you know, you鈥檙e cycling to work and getting an energy audit for your home.
AV俱乐部鈥檚 Office of Sustainability is launching its Rethink program, a behavioral change program designed to increase AV俱乐部 employees鈥� awareness about energy use in the workplace and encourage more environmentally conscious decisions at work. Examples including switching off lights, turning down the thermostat, printing paper on both sides and bringing a reusable mug along on a coffee run.
What鈥檚 the key? Good old-fashioned peer pressure. 鈥淚t鈥檚 to help each other make the change you want to make,鈥� says Ms. Owen. 鈥淧lus it makes it fun to work together.鈥�
The Office of Sustainability encourages AV俱乐部 units (office groups, academic departments, residence floors) to sign up as 鈥渟ustainability teams.鈥� The office, in turn, will offer a two-hour training session and leave behind suggestions of things that can be done.
Some friendly competition between teams should help to get things rolling. So far, the Killam Library and Communications & Marketing are the first teams to sign up. They鈥檒l go head to head with a game of Jeopardy at the Rethink Campus Launch on Friday, Oct. 23 at noon in the Dal SUB.
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