If there were one thing you could do, your very own best job in the world, what would it be?

Would you be wandering with wildlife in wetlands, making the next great mobile device in the highest of high-tech research labs, or touring the globe on your very own jet ?Heck, maybe you’re even your own pilot.

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Here we are in the last few days of March. In Metro Vancouver the Cherry Blossom Festival is kicking off, Juno Fest starts today, and lots of people are getting ready to take in a few great flicks at the Projecting Change Film Festival.

There’s a tonne of stuff to do that won’t put tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere, which is one of my favourite things about spring.

Winter activities are great and all, but they always require more stuff – whether that’s clothing or fuel – to keep you warm.

In spring we get to start using less to do more, which supports a lot of the changes people are talking about here on whatwouldyouchange.ca.

It’s how we can make our world healthier and more sustainable, get in better shape, and keep public spaces full of happy people.

Talking about doing more with less, this Friday we’re celebrating the completion of phase 1 of a solar-canopy project with UBC and BCIT. Come by and check it out if you have a chance.

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-MikeB

I found an interesting article on Antarctica warming up, and why in some places it appeared to be cooling.

This quote got me thinking:

As ozone was depleted, less radiation was absorbed at this layer of the atmosphere, which altered the layering of temperatures over Antarctica, over which the largest ozone "hole" is found (it's not really a hole, but rather a region of extreme thinning). This in turn altered wind patterns and strengthened the circumpolar vortex, creating a wall of winds that isolated the cold air over Antarctica from the warm air over the South Pacific Ocean, Mann explained.

Livescience.com

Regardless of whether you’re a believer in climate change or a skeptic we pretty much all agree that consuming and polluting less is a good thing. What the quote made me think is that maybe the best way to put the debate to rest is to drastically reduce our consumption and emissions, and carefully measure the results over a long period of time. That way whatever happens we’ll be able to better understand the effects of our actions.

Anyway, that’s sort of a longwinded way to get to my point that there are more and more green things happening at BCIT.

First up, Achieving Business Excellence named our campuses Canada’s greenest. I’ve linked to the article, but you can read the official release from BCIT too. That kind of thing doesn’t happen without hard work, so I’m proud to be at an institution with a real commitment to changing the way things are done.

I also want to mention the 2008 FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) LEGO® League competitions happening at BCIT.

Why?

Two reasons:

1. Lego rules. You can’t debate that unless you’re a parent sick of stepping on the stuff.
2. The missions for the latest competition were all focused on climate.

Hundreds of middle school children descended on BCIT and did battle with robots programmed to explore greenhouse gasses, wildlife, and preparing for different climate conditions. Cool stuff, and congratulations to the students from Sullivan Heights Secondary! There’s a video of their robots on the homepage, check it out.

Good luck in Atlanta!

-Mike