SCUP Annual International Conference

At the annual conference for the Society for College and University Planning, sustainability isn't a foreign notion anymore. After all, SCUPers, as the members of the group call themselves, were among the first to push the tenets of sustainability, whether that be energy efficiency, reduction of carbon emissions, or just plain good design. Here, conversations about sustainability—either the formal ones in sessions or the private, informal ones during refreshment breaks—often start out at a fairly high level.

What's interesting is how those conversations reveal what barriers and attitudes [professionals] face on campuses—and in what areas sustainability efforts are probably going to have significant challenges.

Labels: sustainability