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How Your Mental Wellbeing Has Everything to do with Sustainability

Contributed by Markie Pasternak, Coordinator of Mental Well Being at Health Promotion and Wellness Services The Compass Here at Auburn University, we use a model to inform our ideas about sustainability called the ‘Sustainability Compass’. Just like on a navigational compass, there are four directions that can guide you towards…

adminSeptember 25, 2018

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Busy Beyond Belief? Why an Alternative Sleep Cycle Might be the Answer

Post contributed by Jack Parrish Did you make a New Year’s resolution last year? Did you keep it? For many of us, we find ourselves repeating the same patterns each year; we decide to recycle, work out, meal prep, etc. but it rarely sticks. Instead we get busy. As my…

adminJanuary 10, 2018

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Director’s Corner: Food: Enjoying the Real, Avoiding the Fake

“Food fraud, or the act of defrauding buyers of food or ingredients for economic gain… has vexed the food industry throughout history.” -- Renee Johnson, “Food Fraud and ‘Economically Motivated Adulteration’ of Food and Food Ingredients” This summer I read a fascinating and eye-opening book, Real Food Fake Food, by…

Mike KenslerAugust 15, 2017

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Easy Actions, Massive Impact: How Students Can Reduce Food Waste

Post contributed by Ruthie Wofford, Communications Coordinator, Hunger Solutions Institute Campus resources exist to help you fight food waste and hunger. As a recent Auburn grad, I can attest to the fact that life as a college student is, in a word, hectic. Between studying, group projects, football games, maintaining a…

adminAugust 8, 2017

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Director’s Corner: Sustainable Landscapes: An Expression of Ethics

“There is as yet no ethic dealing with man’s relation to land and to the animals and plants which grow upon it. Land … is still property. The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations.” -- Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 1949 Sustainable landscapes result when…

Mike KenslerApril 3, 2017

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Tiger Dining Presents “Tigers on the Green”

Post contributed by Katie Peters, Intern with Tiger Dining Tiger Dining is proud to present, Tigers on The Green, an event celebrating food created on campus and in the Auburn community. This event will launch the Auburn Foods brand on April 21 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the…

adminMarch 30, 2017

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Finding My Green Thumb

Post contributed by Diana Rowell, Office of Sustainability Intern Sustainability. That’s a big word. A word that carries the weight of worldwide change. A passionate word, a futuristic word, a word that makes people share their opinions. As an engineer, sometimes it is difficult to align myself with sustainability without…

adminMarch 27, 2017

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Auburn University Launches New Sustainability Map

Post contributed by Matthew Preisser, Office of Sustainability Intern Over the course of the past year, interns at the Office of Sustainability, in conjunction with the Office of Information Technology, worked to create a new interactive feature for the Auburn Map. This addition to the map will allow viewers to see…

adminAugust 29, 2016

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Director’s Corner: Effort + Relaxation Keeps Us in the Game

“There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation;” -- Lewis Carroll It’s hard to believe the fall and spring terms of the 2016-2017 academic year are over. The impression I get from everyone I’ve talked with since August is that folks have been busy,…

Mike KenslerApril 29, 2016

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Leave It to The Professionals

Post contributed by Laure Butcher, Personal Training Coordinator, Campus Recreation We all need the benefit of someone else’s expertise at some point in our lives. Whether making a big decision or learning a new task, relying on the skills and experience of a professional is something we consider in all…

adminFebruary 19, 2016

How Your Mental Wellbeing Has Everything to do with Sustainability

Busy Beyond Belief? Why an Alternative Sleep Cycle Might be the Answer

Director’s Corner: Food: Enjoying the Real, Avoiding the Fake

Easy Actions, Massive Impact: How Students Can Reduce Food Waste

Director’s Corner: Sustainable Landscapes: An Expression of Ethics

Tiger Dining Presents “Tigers on the Green”

Finding My Green Thumb

Auburn University Launches New Sustainability Map

Director’s Corner: Effort + Relaxation Keeps Us in the Game

Leave It to The Professionals

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