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VOLUME 29 · ISSUE 16 · JANUARY 22, 2020
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TRU ATHLETES TO REPRESENT IN TOKYO
TRU Sustainability is working to decarbonize campus Elizabeth Nygren ARTS EDITOR Ω TRU Sustainability is well known for their hard work to make the campus a more sustainable place for students and faculty. A new project, headed by Jim Gudjonson, is currently in the works to decarbonize campus, mostly through heating.
Gudjonson, who is also the Energy Manager and Sustainability Director at TRU Sustainability, said: “I’ve been strategizing how to reduce our carbon in terms of heating our buildings for quite some time now and we are, I think, 11 years into our energy management program.” Gudjonson added that they’ve been thinking about how to heat buildings more
sustainably as this makes up 92 percent of TRU’s carbon footprint. When the new trades building was built, TRU changed the heating system there specifically and it made an impact.
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The majority of TRU's carbon footprint can be contributed to heating, making up 92 per cent of the problem. (Aidan Grether/The Omega)