{"id":637,"date":"2022-06-23T11:25:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T15:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/?p=637"},"modified":"2025-07-18T10:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T14:07:13","slug":"incoming-ma-se-student-alexander-zelenski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/2022\/incoming-ma-se-student-alexander-zelenski\/","title":{"rendered":"Incoming MA-SE Student: Alexander Zelenski"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Karen Kelly<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Zelenski<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

As a child who grew up on different continents, Alexander Zelenski was always interested in a broader view of how the world works. He found that big-picture mindset in the Department of Economics.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou really get an understanding of the world as one big engine with artificial and natural systems,\u201d says Zelenski, who pursued the concentration in Natural Resource and Environmental Economics<\/a>. \u201cThat was appealing for me because I\u2019m very analytical and I love mind mapping and seeing the big picture stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zelenski decided to apply those skills to the issue of climate change. He lived in Australia as a child and was motivated by the threat to the Great Barrier Reef. He became a leading member of Climate Action Carleton<\/a>, a group that called on Carleton University to divest from the fossil fuel industry. In March 2022, the university changed its investment policies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a real validation for me that momentum works and if you have real arguments and alternatives, you can really go places,\u201d says Zelenski, who drew on the policies at other universities. \u201cUniversity is perhaps the biggest opportunity to create real change at the ground level, and more students need to be taking advantage of this.\u201d<\/p>\n

With that in mind, Zelenski is working with Carleton\u2019s Innovation Hub<\/a> as a Changemaker Program<\/a> co-ordinator to support student entrepreneurs with an interest in sustainability. He will also be starting a master\u2019s degree in Sustainable Energy and Policy<\/a> at Carleton this fall.<\/p>\n

Story taken from the Convocation 2022 issue<\/a> of FPA Voices<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Karen Kelly Alexander Zelenski As a child who grew up on different continents, Alexander Zelenski was always interested in a broader view of how the world works. He found that big-picture mindset in the Department of Economics. \u201cYou really get an understanding of the world as one big engine with artificial and natural systems,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-se-policy"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}