Your input is key!
April 7th, 2008 – by goodj
Dear EMU community —
While the semester may be winding down, efforts toward making our university more sustainable must continue. Please submit your ideas as a comment to this posting. We’ll use them as the full CCC resumes in the fall. Meanwhile, this space will be updated with items that continue over the summer months.
April 7th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Question: Has anyone been talking about reducing the amount of meat consumption at EMU; i.e., reducing the red meat foot print. It should be little to no surprise that most of the total agriculture-related greenhouse gases come from methane produced by cows, and other ruminants. Add to this the transporting of grain and animals, clearing land for pasture, and the release of nitrogen from fertilizers which account for some of the remainder of the emissions.
My guess is that this and similar question have surfaced already by the student body, yet it is something which I have been recently thinking about and making changes in my personal life.