Episode #6: Living Lab
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Can parking garages help us tackle climate change? On this episode, we look at how UBC has turned itself into a Living Lab. UBC Mechanical Engineering Professor Walter Merida explains to Santa Ono how UBC experiments with itself -- with its buildings, its operations, and its surroundings -- to develop innovative green technologies. In this episode you’ll hear: Walter Merida showing how UBC is developing a new energy grid around a parking garage. A description of the way UBC is transformed itself into a living lab for climate solutions. Find out more about the idea, including other projects, here. Music from If Not, Winter.
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