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Experts Speak During
Environment Week

A leading lower mainland en-
vironmentalist says Douglas
College has the components of a
small city, with its own food
stream and its own waste stream.
That’s why the College must make
a Green Plan, like many com-
munities have done.

“There is a need for the College
to look at how it relates to the
natural world, the products and
the energy it uses, and via a
cooperative strategy, move toward
an environmental strategy,” says
Guy Dauncy. “The College has to
take a closer look at how it relates
to the natural world with the
products and energy it consumes.”

Dauncy, author of several books
on the environment, is one of three
environmental experts speaking at

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Douglas College during Environ-
ment Week, April 8 - 12. Called A
Green Plan For Douglas College, his
talk will cover strategies for recy-
cling, energy reduction, hazardous
waste chemical reduction, and trip
reduction.

“It’s a question of getting more
ambitious in terms of the environ-
ment,” says Dauncy, who believes
that Douglas College can be seen
as a leader in the community, en-
vironmentally speaking. “We
should bear in mind that students
take the College model with them
into the real world. The College
has to be a role model for how it
thinks the world should behave.”

Another Earth Week speaker
coming to Douglas College is
Andrea Miller, founder of the
Worldwide Home Environmen-
talists Network (WHEN), which
focuses on the “think globally, act
locally” motto for cleaning up the
environment. Her workshop,
called The Role Of The Conserver,
stirs consumers to take environ-
mental action by changing con-
sumption patterns. Her approach
to teaching the public to reduce
waste stems from the basic notion
that the home is a microcosm of
the planet.

“Through a change in buying
habits, consumers can have a real
effect, not only in the waste
stream, but on virtually every
aspect of the environment, from
water quality to ozone levels,”
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Food grown without the use of
pesticides is the subject of a talk
by Douglas College Economics
Instructor Gary Dorosh. Called
Organic Food: The Future in B.C.,
Durosh wants to promote an in-
dustry that prevents chemicals
from entering the food chain.

“T will look at where the in-
dustry is at now, where it’s going,
and what's necessary to get it
there,” Dorosh says. “It’s an infant
industry, but it is growing, and
hopefully I can inform the
audience about it. The organic
food industry is environmentally

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