Symposium on Sustainability at Iowa State University (ISU)

Symposium on Sustainability draws campus crowd
Iowa States' second annual "Symposium on Enhancing Sustainability" featured sessions topics, including, but not limited to:

• Teaching sustainability in the classroom,
• Campus energy conservation,
• Sustainable agriculture, and
• Student activities in support of ISU's Live Green! initiative.

Other presentations included:

• Patagonia clothing company founder Yvon Chouinard,
• The keynote speech, by Leith Sharp, the founding director of Harvard University's green campus initiative.

One of the ideas Sharp presented was, "[P]eople with very high consumption levels are no happier than people with quite conservative consumption levels."

Read more: http://www.livegreen.iastate.edu/symposium.

Source: ISU News Flash. 3-5-2010