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Campus Changemaker: Karen McNeal Newsletter Archived UpdatesSustainability in ActionSustainable Development Goal 13Sustainable Development Goal 15Sustainable Development Goal 16Sustainable Development Goal 4

Campus Changemaker: Karen McNeal

Karen on a hike with her family By Camille Colter, Office of Sustainability Karen McNeal is a professor of Geosciences within the College of Sciences and Mathematics, hired as one of the first disciple-based education researchers (DBERs). DBERs conduct nontraditional disciplinary research on education. Karen’s work focuses on understanding how…
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March 31, 2023
“Handprint” Your Way to A Better World Newsletter Archived UpdatesOffice Guest Blog PostsSustainable Development Goal 12

“Handprint” Your Way to A Better World

By Mike Buhmann and Stephanie Richardson In 2021, Auburn University purchased over 800 chairs from Humanscale (the premier designer and manufacturer of ergonomic and sustainable furniture) for use in several departments around campus.   This leaves the world better off by conserving and returning:    3,611 kg of CO2, which equates to…
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March 31, 2023
The Weather is More than Small Talk: What I Learned from Climate Scientists on a Trip to the Southeast Newsletter Archived UpdatesOffice Guest Blog PostsSustainable Development Goal 13Sustainable Development Goal 16Sustainable Development Goal 17

The Weather is More than Small Talk: What I Learned from Climate Scientists on a Trip to the Southeast

By Sabrina De Los Santos Rodríguez Dark clouds over the Week's Bay boat. Photo credits: Sabrina De Los Santos Rodríguez On Sunday, August 7th, 2022 I was on a white van with seven other people - all climate science graduate students and professors with diverse specialties. We were leading the…
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March 27, 2023
Climate Change: An Issue of Climate Justice Newsletter Archived UpdatesOffice Guest Blog PostsSustainable Development Goal 1 - No PovertySustainable Development Goal 10Sustainable Development Goal 13Sustainable Development Goal 16Sustainable Development Goal 17Sustainable Development Goal 5Sustainable Development Goal 6

Climate Change: An Issue of Climate Justice

by Ghanashyam Khanal and Nabin Bhandari  While about two frenetic weeks of discussions and negotiations on climate change, damage and loss, and climate finance were going on at COP27 in Egypt, a documentary that depicted the impact of climate change on women and children in the Himalayan regions of Nepal…
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March 13, 2023
The Big and Small ways to Celebrate Earth Day Newsletter Archived UpdatesOffice Guest Blog PostsSustainable Development Goal 13Sustainable Development Goal 14Sustainable Development Goal 15

The Big and Small ways to Celebrate Earth Day

by Becki Retzlaff Every Earth Day I am reminded of two things. The first is when I was a teenager, and my friends and I volunteered to plant trees at a park near my home in Michigan. We labored all day to carefully plant little pine tree seedlings in long…
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March 13, 2023
Campus Changemaker: Kimberly Mulligan-Guy Newsletter Archived UpdatesSustainability in ActionSustainable Development Goal 10Sustainable Development Goal 16Sustainable Development Goal 4Sustainable Development Goal 5

Campus Changemaker: Kimberly Mulligan-Guy

by Camille Colter, Office of Sustainability Photo courtesy of Kimberly Mulligan-Guy Let’s talk about diversity, equity, and inclusion. Wait, scratch that. Inclusion, equity, THEN diversity.   Formally, Dr. Kimberly Mulligan-Guy is the Assistant Dean for Inclusion, Equity, and Diversity (IED) in the College of Science and Mathematics (COSAM). Informally, she is…
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January 31, 2023
The Song of the Taiwanese Trash Truck Newsletter Archived UpdatesOffice Guest Blog PostsSustainable Development Goal 12Sustainable Development Goal 13

The Song of the Taiwanese Trash Truck

by Jesse Teel Taiwan had the unfortunate nickname “Garbage Island.” Trash polluted the environment through littering and burning. Mountains of waste rotted in the streets. Taiwan initiated a waste management overhaul and the last two decades have seen a transformation to a clean, largely litter-free country.   The waste and recycling…
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January 27, 2023
DIVERSITY & AFFORDABILITY Assessment: AUBURN UNIVERSITY’S STARS REPORT Newsletter Archived UpdatesSTARS: Sustainability Tracking Assessment And Rating SystemSustainable Development Goal 1 - No PovertySustainable Development Goal 10Sustainable Development Goal 4Sustainable Development Goal 5Sustainable Development Goal 8

DIVERSITY & AFFORDABILITY Assessment: AUBURN UNIVERSITY’S STARS REPORT

by Randy Martin, Office of Sustainability As I begin, I feel as though most are familiar with the moral cases for diversity, so I want to draw attention to this tweet from Adam Grant, a leader in Organizational Psychology and award-winning author. As he states, a recent paper titled Gender-diverse…
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January 23, 2023