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LCC Committed To Climate Change Reduction Long Before Global Summit

Lane Community College

The Global Climate Summit takes place in Paris this week. Lane Community College President Mary Spilde was invited to the White House earlier this month to take part in a meetingin advance of the conference.

Spilde says it was especially interesting to hear from college students.
Spilde: "And hearing about the undergraduate research and graduate research that they were doing in response to climate change. So hearing those young voices was very encouraging and heartening."
Spilde says Lane has been active in sustainability initiatives for a while.
Spilde: "Long before it was hip to be green, Lane through energy management, and through recycling and some of the places that we started, we have had a very long commitment."
Lane Community College is among about 200 nationally that signed a pledge this month to, among other things, achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 and train energy management, renewable energy and water conservation technicians.  Lane signed on to the original American College & University Presidents' Climate Commitment of 2006.
 

Rachael McDonald is KLCC’s host for All Things Considered on weekday afternoons. She also is the editor of the KLCC Extra, the daily digital newspaper. Rachael has a BA in English from the University of Oregon. She started out in public radio as a newsroom volunteer at KLCC in 2000.
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