Month: May 2023

Today we toured Victoria University in Wellington. Though Whittier College is a very small campus compared to this university, there are still a lot of initiatives that Victoria University is doing that we could learn from. For example, the worm compost and glass milk cartons are both exciting new projects. I found it interesting that…

Today the most interesting thing I learned was about the Living Pa. I had never heard of the living building challenge before. I thought that this was a really cool way to inspire people to not only incorporate sustainable initiatives, but really be innovative and go to the extremes of sustainability. It was interesting to…

Today we went to the Victoria University at Wellington and learned more about sustainability practices at the university and around New Zealand. My favorite part was learning about the worm compost as I had never seen that before. The living building challenge was also interesting in that the building had to be fully sustainable and…

Today we visited Victoria University of Wellington. We learned about sustainability initiatives that the university is taking. I loved learning about the worm compost bins and seeing it in action. I wish Whittier would do something similar. I also thought that it was cool that the cafes at the school try to only use reusable…

Today we went to Victoria University of Wellington and toured the campus. Something I found interesting was that the institution was younger than Whittier. I guess in my head I just assumed that all these schools were much older due to the architecture. Many of the buildings we entered throughout the day were old, which…

I enjoyed learning about the sustainable courses and projects that Victoria University has. They have a strong desire to not only implement learning about sustainability to their curriculums but they strive for the action to make it applicable to their students’ future lives outside of school. I really enjoyed the seminar at the end, it…

Victoria University: Today we visited Victoria University and spoke to two of the staff on sustainability. Andrew Wilks spoke to us about the different factors and challenges that the university took into consideration when attempting to be sustainable. One of the main challenges was finding ways to have keep students engaged in keeping sustainable habits…

We visited several campuses at Victoria university and explored their plans of sustainable development along with how they are being sustainable. Learning the difference between sustainable and sustainable development has opened a new lens for me since I have used them quite interchangeably or even thought of them as the same. This leads me on…

Today was alot of information. It was super educating and intresting to hear the didferent ways sustainability can be achieved, and they most common struggles organizations aspiring to be sustainable encounter. I think the thing that stood out to me the most is that people who provide there own energy (through some sort of renewable…

Today we visited two of Victoria University’s campuses. We met with Andrew Wilks, the director of Sustainability, and learned about some of the things the University is doing and working towards in order to be sustainable. We also met with two of his colleagues to learn more about specific projects and topics that had to…