Spring Course Offerings in Sustainability
A wide variety of courses related to sustainability will be offered on campus during the Spring 2020 semester. Twenty courses which span 8 colleges on campus will be offered as part of the Minor in Sustainability Studies. Many of these courses also can be used toward core curriculum requirements, majors,…
adminSeptember 30, 2019
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
Campus Changemaker: Steve Nelson
Post Contributed by Taylor Kraabel, Office of Sustainability Employee Engagement Coordinator Steve Nelson Steve Nelson, Associate Director of Environmental Health and Safety, has been a part of Auburn’s sustainability story since the beginning. Before coming to Auburn, Steve worked in environmental departments for other universities. His plethora of experience even…
adminSeptember 25, 2019
Meet Our Staff – Devontae Lindsey
Presenting Devontae Lindsey! As our Communication Project Specialist, Devontae, a junior in Visual Media, created numerous videos during 2019 - 2020, including the spinning Sustainability Compass at the end of this video!
adminSeptember 23, 2019
Meet Our Staff – Taylor Kraabel
Meet Taylor Kraabel! Taylor worked in our office her junior and senior years in employee engagement and wrote several Campus Changemaker profiles.
adminSeptember 23, 2019
Protecting the Quarterback & Protecting our Earth
Offensive lineman Marquel Harrell knows he has an important job when he lines up on the field: protecting the quarterback. That’s a job he puts his heart and soul into, but there is another job he considers equally important off the field: protecting our earth. “I do my part by…
adminSeptember 5, 2019
How to Recycle and Repurpose University Property Instead of Sending it to Landfills
ALRM Overhead Google Image Ag Land and Resource Management (ALRM) provides construction, earth preparation, irrigation systems, AG building repair, roads, and ponds in support of the College of Agriculture (COAG) and the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station (AAES). In the fall of 2018, ALRM was directed to begin the process of…
adminSeptember 3, 2019
Director’s Corner: Waste: An Idea Whose Time Has Gone
“There is no such thing as ‘away’. When we throw anything away it must go somewhere.” - Annie Leonard, The Story of Stuff Envision a world where human civilization, including everything we build and use, has a regenerative and restorative impact on the planet, where what we make and how…
Mike KenslerSeptember 3, 2019
