The Sustainability Professional: On the Record with Bart Meehan Associate Director for Facilities and Services The Australian National University

摘要

Persuading students to take shorter showers and groundskeepers to stop watering the flowers so much is no small project for a university of any size. Thanks to the efforts of Bart Meehan and his colleagues at the Australian National University, though, computer speakers and monitors no longer waste kilowatt hours languishing on "standby" the new medical research facility does not require mechanized air conditioning, and a once-significant environmental footprint is shrinking. In this exclusive interview, Sustainability: The Journal of Record talks to Meehan about effecting behavioral changes in a community the size of a small town, getting academics and facilities folks to work cooperatively toward a common goal, and making environmentalismfun, notpreachy.