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Living Past the Paradigm, With Sustainability: Maurice Nelisher at TEDxGuelphU

387 views · Published 11 May 2012 · 17:26 · Indexed 4 October 2026

Channel: TEDx Talks · 2012 · Howto & Style

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University of Guelph Landscape Architecture Professor. Throughout his career Maurice has been very active in community planning and design . His professional work focuses on community design and the facilitation of public input in the decision making process. This focus is complimented by his experience in the use of video-imaging technologies as a communication tool. Maurice has been involved in University and community initiatives seeking to link quality of life issues with physical design and planning through a rigorous and explicit public process. 

After many years as a professor and director in the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development (he's a Landscape Architect), Maurice has taken on a new role as the University Director of Sustainability.
This position is in response to needs identified in the 2010 Presidents Task Force on Sustainability.  The University of Guelph is well positioned to lead the paradigm changes that society needs to embrace to address the issues we are facing.  Maurice will mine the expertise of faculty and students to help find viable new ways of thinking and doing things to allow us to live in a world that is environmentally, socially and economically sustainable.

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