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University of Wisconsin - Visiting Professor

Sustainability and Environmental Land Management:

The UW-River Falls Visiting Professor Committee invites nominations for the Visiting Professor Program each year.  The program is funded by the UWRF Foundation. Any academic departments or programs may nominate a person with outstanding credentials.  The nominee’s visit and presentations should appeal to a reasonable cross section of the university community. Joy and Gordon Peabody, director of Safe Harbor Environmental were nominated by an education professor eager to integrate sustainability into curriculum.  The nomination was supported by several colleges and  by the ST. Croix Institute for Sustainable Community Development.  Working towards sustainability has been a key goal of the University of Wisconsin-River Falls Campus and many faculty members are eager to hear the perspectives of Gordon Peabody and Joy Cuming who have worked on projects in the fragile Cape Cod environment.

The visiting professor is typically asked to spend several days on campus and to engage in a number of activities

Informal visits with students, faculty and community members (Joy and Gordon are sitting on a panel for the Rotary Club focus on sustainability and doing an elementary class workshop)

I sent 2 groups of Graduate students out shopping for some basic groceries. One group focused on minimal packaging and the second group "shopped as normal". We discovered that in a community of 10,000 people, we could save a pound of waste per person per week…five tons, by shopping more carefully.  Then we would have to find another use for the money no longer needed  to process that extra quarter million tons of municipal trash per year