{"id":182,"date":"2010-10-05T16:42:28","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T20:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=182"},"modified":"2010-10-05T16:42:28","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T20:42:28","slug":"getting-to-know-prof-nathan-phillips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2010\/10\/05\/getting-to-know-prof-nathan-phillips\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting to know: Prof. Nathan Phillips"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Greg Hum and Nathan Phillips at Park(ing) Day 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

The Core takes pride in the people who help keep the program running. One of those people is Professor Nathan Phillips, a course coordinator for CC106: Biodiversity<\/a>.\u00a0 As part of an ongoing series on going green<\/a>, BU Today offers a look into his almost completely off-the-grid lifestyle:<\/p>\n

Nathan Phillips, a College of Arts & Sciences associate professor of geography and environment, is a somewhat reluctant poster boy for green living.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t claim to be fully free of all energy sources in the office at all times,\u201d he says. His office\u2019s heating and cooling are of course regulated building-wide.<\/p>\n

But Phillips, who is also director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies<\/a>, is a model for those who aspire to a lifestyle that takes less and gives more back to the Earth. Even though he and his wife have two school-age children, they downsized their automobile stable from two cars to one, joined Zipcar, and made a commitment to bike to bikable destinations. The family grows herbs, tomatoes, raspberries, and Concord grapes in raised beds and tosses organic waste in a compost bin in the backyard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can read the full story and watch a short video supplement on the BU Today website<\/a>. He manages to make green living seem perfectly doable, and even advantageous! Discuss what small steps you take to increase sustainability on the EnCore facebook group<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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