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MARCH 2014
Asian Institute of Technology
MARCH 2014
AIT Students sign up for a sustainable campus.
AIT campus to be a real life ‘Sustainable Laboratory’ t its verdant 130-hectare campus north of Bangkok, officials plan to transform the campus into a clean, green model of sustainability. This month, AIT’s administration gave the green light to push forward with an ambitious agenda to achieve a “sustainable laboratory” over the next five years. The Institute’s technical experts are being tapped to engineer plans for an environmentally-friendly learning experience so far unseen anywhere in Thailand or the region. Adding momentum to the push, a new sustainability club organized by the AIT Student Union has caught on in a
big way, attracting over 100 members to its inaugural meeting. The club has already initiated a campaign to eliminate plastic bags from the campus confines, and many have signed a pledge for “green living.”
To kickstart activities, AIT faculty have initiated eight small “projects”, to establish the baseline on electricity and other energy resources, water use and wastes generated (hazardous and non-hazardous) in the campus. Besides, improving bicycle parking, managing wetlands and agriculture in campus are also under way.
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