Food & Climate Change: A Permaculture Perspective Office Guest Blog PostsSustainable Development Goal 13

Food & Climate Change: A Permaculture Perspective

Our current food industry isn’t working. Agriculture accounts for 9.3% of the United States’ carbon footprint. This carbon footprint is furthered when we consider the high percentage of this food that goes to waste. Agriculture is a designed human system which has created wealth and security, fueled industrialization and specialization of…
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February 26, 2020
Campus Changemaker: Ana Plana Sustainability in Action

Campus Changemaker: Ana Plana

Post Contributed by Taylor Kraabel, Office of Sustainability Employee Engagement Coordinator Ana Plana is thrilled to be a member of the Auburn community after relocating from Miami. In between her lectures, Ana is currently helping the College of Human Sciences create their Culinary Science program. With thirteen years of teaching…
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February 25, 2020
Lee County Remembrance Project: Reflecting on the Past to Build a Better Future Newsletter Archived UpdatesOffice Guest Blog PostsSustainability in ActionSustainable Development Goal 10

Lee County Remembrance Project: Reflecting on the Past to Build a Better Future

In partnership with the Equal Justice Initiative, the Lee County Remembrance Project (LCRP) focuses on confronting the history of racial terror in Lee County and engaging the community through conversations about the narrative of racial injustices and the legacy of racial inequality in our community. In an effort to accomplish…
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February 3, 2020
Director’s Corner: Taking the Measure of Our Humanity in the 21st Century Director's Corner

Director’s Corner: Taking the Measure of Our Humanity in the 21st Century

The Sustainability Compass “I believe in one thing—that only a life lived for others is a life worth living.”  Albert Einstein, 1948   As I look around at the ever-growing climate crisis and the shocking lack of global action, the fracturing of democracies and toxicity of public discourse, constant war,…
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February 3, 2020
Want to Make a Difference While Getting Paid? Apply Now to Join Our Team Newsletter Archived Updates

Want to Make a Difference While Getting Paid? Apply Now to Join Our Team

We’re seeking 4 students to join our team for the 2020-21 academic year! Students from the Office of Sustainability in Baltimore for the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education conference. In applying specific knowledge, skills, & talents to individual & team projects, student staff will: help cultivate…
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February 3, 2020
Director’s Corner: Humanity’s growing ecological footprint: “the only measure which tracks how much nature we have – and how much nature we use.” Director's CornerNewsletter Archived Updates

Director’s Corner: Humanity’s growing ecological footprint: “the only measure which tracks how much nature we have – and how much nature we use.”

“If we did to our bank account what we have been doing to the Earth’s natural capital we would have been bankrupt long ago.” ~Christina Figueres, former Executive Secretary, United Nations Frameworks Convention on Climate Change Planet Earth has over eons generated a vast endowment of natural capital, which the…
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January 9, 2020