The Keystone Centre

developing reports, for example, that, in the good old days, would have been manual.” BVM: Does the Center promulgate any green or sustainable practices? Schumacher: “I’m not going to say that we’re state-of-the-art LEED. But we’ve got lights that come on and go off automatically, we’ve got waterless urinal technology, a couple of automatic doors we’re working on, so I think we’ve made great strides. We’re converting a lot of lighting; a lot of buildings going to more LED lighting for energy efficiency. We are getting grants for green initiatives and we’re upgrading.” Kowaluk: “We did a recent composting trial. We haven’t gotten to the point of the evaluation stage yet to see whether or not we will move forward with actively pursuing the full program, but we’ve done the trial with composting a portion of our kitchen waste. We have events here that have challenged us to become zero waste and we’ve been up to the task to make them zero waste events and it’s been exciting to be part of that THE KEYSTONE CENTRE

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