Did You Know That Before the Grocery Store and the Food Truck, There Are the Bees?

Whether we prefer to eat something sweet (imagine those blueberry pancakes dripping with maple syrup!) or savory (hear the crunch of a fresh juicy !); whether we like to drink a cup of steaming coffee or freshly pressed orange juice; our plates share one thing: Pollinators! Figure 1: Honey bees…

adminFebruary 28, 2020

Sustainability in Action Updates

Campus Changemaker: Mike Stover

Post Contributed by Taylor Kraabel, Office of Sustainability Employee Engagement Coordinator For the past five and a half years, Mike Stover has worked as the Assistant Director for Employer Relations in the Office of Professional and Career Development in the Raymond J. Harbert College of Business. In other words, Mike…

adminOctober 26, 2019

Guest Posts

Considerations of Sustainability in Agriculture

Sustainability is something that has received an increasing amount of attention. Any idea/product/business/practice can be great but if it cannot sustain over time, its ability to survive and make an impact is small. Production agriculture as a whole has to be sustainable otherwise, at some point, we as humans would…

adminSeptember 30, 2019

Guest Posts Updates

Dining Goes Greener

Post contributed by Gwen Ward, Campus Dining “Reduce, reuse, recycle” is the first thing we’re taught about creating and maintaining a sustainable world. In our very earliest years, we’re taught that we are responsible for the impact we make. At Campus Dining, we’re diligently working to minimize the impact we…

adminAugust 29, 2019

Guest Posts Updates

One Fish, Two Fish, Grow Fish

Contributed by Bill Walton, Associate Professor in the School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences and Extension Specialist with Alabama Cooperative Extension System When we think of the oceans and sustainability, we often think of what we harvest from the seas. Thinking about harvest, there are now clear patterns emerging…

adminApril 12, 2019

Guest Posts Updates

Small Beginnings

Post contributed by Jonathan Lillebo, Graduate Student in Adult Education, Bachelor of Science in Horticulture ‘18, President, Organic Garden Club ’16-‘18 You are strolling through the market and as you pass the flower and plant section, you spot a sweet little row of succulents and decide you are going to go for it and…

adminSeptember 5, 2018

Guest Posts Updates

Auburn City Farmer’s Market Kicks Off This Month!

Fall will be here soon, alongside lower temperatures and thoughts of the outdoors. Football, camping, the changing color of leaves, and fresh produce all come to mind as essential elements of fall. Where better to get fresh produce than a farmer’s market? So grab your reusable shopping bags and get…

adminSeptember 1, 2018

Director's Corner Updates

Director’s Corner: Plant a Garden & Help Reverse Global Warming

In the November 2017, Sustainability Digest I wrote about attending a conference in Atlanta and hearing Paul Hawken talk about Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming. Project Drawdown, for the first time, defines specifically what we need to do, and what we can do, to…

Mike KenslerFebruary 28, 2018

Guest Posts Updates

Tailgating with a Purpose

Post contributed by Onikia Brown, Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist, Alabama Cooperative Extension Program Alabama Cooperative Extension Program “Hut 1, hut 2, hut 3…HIKE!” We play, we watch, we eat…..FOOTBALL! During football season, many of us spend 2-5 days watching football. Here is the football schedule for our favorite players…

adminOctober 24, 2017

Guest Posts SDG2 Updates

Tiger Dining and Campus Kitchens Partner to Reduce Food Waste

Post contributed by Katie Peters, Marketing Assistant, Tiger Dining Tiger Dining seeks to handle the food served on campus in the most sustainable and responsible way possible, from the beginning to end of the food service process. Our associates are reminded during food preparation to reduce food waste with our…

adminOctober 24, 2017

Did You Know That Before the Grocery Store and the Food Truck, There Are the Bees?

Campus Changemaker: Mike Stover

Considerations of Sustainability in Agriculture

Dining Goes Greener

One Fish, Two Fish, Grow Fish

Small Beginnings

Auburn City Farmer’s Market Kicks Off This Month!

Director’s Corner: Plant a Garden & Help Reverse Global Warming

Tailgating with a Purpose

Tiger Dining and Campus Kitchens Partner to Reduce Food Waste

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