Our CEO, Chandu Visweswariah, just lately visited LIM Faculty, a New York Metropolis-based greater instructional establishment for college students in the worldwide enterprise of vogue. He mentioned local weather change and options to mitigate its influence.
As founding President of a mission-driven firm that seeks to drive sooner adoption of renewables within the vitality trade, Chandu believes that educating oneself and others on local weather change is a key first step for these seeking to make a distinction. As somebody who lives in a zero-carbon dwelling, he additionally advocates dwelling a way of life with the lightest attainable carbon footprint, and incorporating that ethos into the office.
After a broadly outlined vitality area, vogue/clothes contribute essentially the most to world warming, he famous. Chandu was completely happy to be taught that the brand new batch of scholars at LIM Faculty is weaving sustainability into their garment design and manufacturing course of, as a part of a brand new course taught by Prof. Andrea Kennedy.
(Photograph courtesy of LIM Faculty: Chandu Visweswariah, seen within the entrance row, with the scholars he addressed as a part of a course on sustainability).
“It was heartening to see the subsequent technology caring a lot concerning the setting, paying cautious consideration by the lecture, asking plenty of questions, after which hanging round for nearly an additional hour to be taught extra concerning the topic,” he stated.
College students will construct ideas they discovered from the lecture into their subsequent task, through which they’re designing a garment whereas preserving sustainability issues in thoughts from a producing and provide chain standpoint.
Chandu’s most important message to the scholars was that particularly in mild of the latest IPCC report on local weather change
, decarbonizing the economic system is an crucial. Electrifying our vitality wants together with heating and transportation, and switching to renewable vitality such as wind, photo voltaic, and hydro energy, have to be the way in which ahead.
Under is an excerpt and hyperlink to a associated weblog posted on the LIM Faculty web site, authored by vogue pupil Michelle Williams:
“On Wednesday, October 17, LIM Faculty’s
Sustainability and the Way forward for Vogue
course happened in Fashionopolis, the place professors and college students heard particular visitor lecturer Dr. Chandu Visweswariah talk about local weather change. The founding President and CEO of
Utopus Insights
, Dr. Visweswariah defined tangible practices manufacturers can put in place to shift their factories and properties to renewable vitality.
Dr. Visweswariah began his presentation with three easy questions:
– Is our planet imperiled?
– Can we save our planet?
– What’s the resolution?”
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