Saturday, June 7, 2014

Prof. C is going green?!

I'm about to embark on yet another trip. This time it's a combination of work/pleasure trip. First stop- Scandinavia for a faculty development trip on Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability. Now, before anyone who knows me starts to laugh about this, let me tell you about what I've been up to in my classes. Ever since I've started teaching I've had some sort of sustainability project whether it was supporting a budding entrepreneur in a developing part of the world or having students create projects to feed the hungry. My deeper interest in sustainability came this past school year as I had a "green entrepreneur" as part of my Advisory board. I started to see things from a much different perspective. I've started to do things differently in my daily life- less plastic, even more recycling. In fact, this morning when I went to dump my garbage in a public trash can (shh, don't tell anyone :-) I only dumped the garbage and took the plastic bag home and put it in my recycle bin. I know, I shouldn't have dumped my garbage in a public can but at least I recycled. It has been said that every trip changes a person in some way. I fully expect this trip to be one that opens my eyes to innovative possibilities on how we as a society, businesses and governments can do well by doing good. Stay tuned….

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