- photo by Martin Dee
On 3 November Prof. Toope attended the opening of the University of British Columbia’s Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS), the most sustainable building in North America. CIRS is a $37-million “living laboratory” contributing towards the regeneration of the environment and to advancing research and innovation on global sustainability challenges.
CIRS is one of only a few buildings worldwide that will provide ‘net positive’ benefits to the environment. It reduces UBC’s carbon emissions, powers itself and a neighboring building with renewable and waste energy, creates drinking water from rain and treats wastewater onsite.
For more information visit: http://cirs.ubc.ca