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Post contributed by Joan Hicken, Coordinator, Waste Reduction & Recycling Department Auburn University’s Waste Reduction and Recycling Department (WRRD) is working to increase the university’s efforts to be more sustainable. WRRD manages all waste contracts on campus and provides waste and recycling services to the university community. The recycling program…

2015-16 Interns: Rebecca Oliver, Kristin Dobbs, Hallie Nelson (Front Row L to R); Taylor Craft, Kyle Kimel, Matthew Preisser (Back Row, L to R). The Auburn University Office of Sustainability is offering unpaid student internship opportunities for the 2016-17 school year beginning with the Fall semester in August. Students interested…

When Hallie Nelson came to Auburn University, she discovered her interest in the sustainability movement. A lifelong love for the outdoors led her to take a sustainability course her freshman year at Auburn and she began to get involved with the movement in the local community. Hallie Nelson From what…

Post contributed by Taylor Craft, Office of Sustainability Intern Some claim that the days of citizen activism in the U.S. are over, and that we are raising a generation oblivious to civil affairs. Not everyone has met Ken Ward, a young man well-versed in city ordinances and municipal codes who…

Post contributed by Melani Landerfelt, Community and Civic Engagement Graduate Assistant, Counseling Psychology PhD Student No Impact Week is an international sustainability initiative that challenges people to limit their impact on the environment for one week to experience the difference that no-impact living can have on quality of life.  The Community…

Post contributed by Dr. Nanette Chadwick, Director of Academic Sustainability Programs Academic Sustainability Programs Are you interested in gardening? In growing your own food or flowers? In getting some exercise in a natural setting and communing with fellow gardeners? Then come join us at the AU Community Garden. The garden…