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GSU exhibit goes green
Museum show offers tips for saving money, the environment
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Eaghan Benton, 6, and Emily Hulsey, 2, try out an exhibit that demonstrates the amount of trash Americans discard versus the amount they recycle at the Georgia Southern Museum's new Sustainable Solutions exhibit Thursday.
Going green and working to protect the environment does not necessarily call for a new hybrid vehicle or expensive solar-panel-covered home. Saving the world doesn’t have to result in a sacrificed bank account.That is the message, at least, of a new addition to the Georgia Southern University Museum intended to provide guests with easy approaches for minimizing ecological footprints and simple, cheap lifestyle changes to create a greener world.The featured exhibit, Sustainable Solutions, opened Tuesday with promise of teaching economically-conscious techniques for protecting the environment through a series of interactive displays and informative posters.According to Lissa Leege Director of the Georgia Southern Center for Sustainability and curator of the exhibit, the work is intended to show how citizens can “be green while saving green.”“The goal for the exhibit is to show people what some of our sustainability issues are, and show that there are really simple solutions out there already to reduce our impact on Earth,” Leege said. “There are all kinds of great technological solutions and also simple lifestyle choices, like recycling.”“There are simple energy-efficiency changes we can make that can significantly reduce our use of energy,” she said.
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