First Friday January COTE Presentation 1-6-2012
AIA COTE Presentation this Friday, 12-1, room 440
This months presentation will be given by Tarah Schroeder, Project Director/Director of Sustainability with Ricca Newmark Design:
Community initiatives and unlikely partnerships are the future of
sustainability. It means looking beyond typical avenues that have
provided solutions in the past and envisioning the needs of an entire
community to identify the third, fourth, and fifth degrees of separation
that will be able to provide these unconventional connections. The city
of West Lafayette is a pioneer in this arena as they foresaw a different
paradigm for handling the two issues of food waste and greenhouse gas
reduction. By looking beyond traditional solutions, a local initiative
was created that partnered the municipal waste water treatment plant
with local Purdue University to convert the food waste from campus
restaurants into renewable energy.
This dynamic session will outline the process of anaerobic digestion
that the city uses and identify how the partnership has impacted the
city. It will detail the design and operation considerations needed for
culinary program participation and share how the implementation of the
project has helped the university and influenced the way students think
about food waste. It will also discuss other potential opportunities
for further collaboration.
For more sustainable events be sure to visit Alliance for Sustainable Colorado:
Visit the Alliance for Sustainable Colorado calendar website for other upcoming sustainable events at http://sustainablecolorado.org/calendar/events/
