Celebrate Cycle Day with us on March 10
Circulation is at the heart of a growing movement that touches everything from fashion to gardening and food shopping. It is a simple but powerful concept based on three guiding principles: intelligent design, reuse and restoration.
Sandra Goldmark, Senior Assistant Dean for Interdisciplinary Engagement Columbia Climate School Director, Office of Sustainability and Climate Action, Barnard College, Leaders and Advocates Integrate circular practices into campuses. She made Barnard a national leader in implementing a school-wide circular strategy.
“We mostly live in a linear system where we extract resources, make objects and process them quickly,” Goldmark said. “The Looping Campus is a holistic, systems-based framework to reduce emissions and waste, lower costs, change consumption patterns on campus, increase student access and affordability, and support the transition to a just and sustainable economy.”
This drive to share, reuse, and fix is catching on.due to worry consequences of climate change As you grow, so does your sense of urgency to act.
On Friday, March 10, Barnard College’s Sustainability Office spoke with Columbia Climate School and the Office of the Borough of Manhattan — are hosting a citywide celebration on campus. New York City Cycle Day Will include naming and rewarding several circular advocates for their commitment to sharing, reuse and restoration. People from all walks of life are welcome to attend. Please sign up here.
“Good design, reuse and repair are all about better sorting our waste and avoiding all steps that create waste and associated emissions in the first place,” Goldmark explained. “But the first step is understanding how the objects we throw or don’t throw connect us to each other and to the rest of the world.”
