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#sustainability experts have found some positive consequences of
#COVID19 physical distancing measures. ☀️ Reported in
@asunow:
♻️ Mick Dalrymple, director of University Sustainability Practices
@asu.usp, says, "The air is cleaner!" With people traveling less, greenhouse gas emissions have declined.
🌵People are getting outside much more! “They’re finding some way to get exercise and they’re not going to the gym,” Dalrymple says. While right now, a line up Camelback Mountain is not a good thing, Dalrymple says, “This is an opportunity to create a new trajectory toward a green economy."
✅ Alana Levine, who directs the university’s Zero Waste
@zerowasteasu and Grounds Services, says she sees quite a bit of opportunity in business models right now: “When businesses want to innovate and adapt to a priority — sustainability emerging as a major one — then there’s going to be some really great innovation around material science and some of the business m...