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Sustainability Picnic Welcomes Students Back to Campus

Last week we welcomed new and returning students with the Sustainability Picnic. Students connected with a variety of Auburn University sustainability offerings, including student organizations to join, academic opportunities, and some of the local and healthy food choices on campus. Picnickers listened to music by Caroline Jackson and the Flint…

Jen MorseSeptember 3, 2015

Director's Corner Updates

Director’s Corner: The Earth-Friendly, People-Friendly, Two-Wheeled, Human-Powered People Mover

Sometimes the awesomeness of common devices is taken for granted. A bicycle is such a device, especially when viewed through the lens of sustainability. A bike tour of all four points of the Sustainability Compass, Nature, Economy, Society, and individual Wellbeing, tells the story. Biking and Nature: It takes far…

Mike KenslerSeptember 1, 2015

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Tackling Trash: Adopt-A-Spot Program Accepting Adopters

Members of Global Leadership Council maintain their spot. Is your group looking for a service opportunity? Would you like an easy way to help keep Auburn “the Loveliest Village on the Plains”? Then consider signing up for the Adopt-A-Spot (AAS) program today. The process of adopting a spot begins with…

adminAugust 31, 2015

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Want to Help Improve Bicycling on Campus? Here’s Your Chance!

Students join Auburn Outdoors staff on a bicycling tour near the Blueridge Parkway. Do you have ideas on how bicycling programs and facilities on campus might be improved? Are there things we’re already doing in relation to cycling that you appreciate? Now’s your chance to let us know! You have…

adminAugust 30, 2015

Guest Posts Updates

Updates Requested: Campus-Wide Faculty Directory of Sustainability-Related Research & Courses

Post contributed by Dr. Nanette Chadwick, Director of Academic Sustainability Programs, Office of the Provost Dr. Sweta Byahut gives a sustainability-related tour to students near M. Miller-Gorrie Center Auburn faculty, YOU TOO can join our campus-wide directory of faculty who conduct sustainability-related research, and/or our directory of courses that you…

adminAugust 28, 2015

Guest Posts Updates

AU Seed Library Opens in Time for Fall Planting

Post contributed by Patricia Hartman, Reference & Instruction Librarian at RBD Library, pjh0011@auburn.edu. A small sample of what the AU Seed Library has to offer. Seed libraries are sprouting up across the country and Auburn University is no exception. With the help of some fantastic student volunteers and the Academic…

adminAugust 28, 2015

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Taste the Freshness!

Post contributed by Gwen Ward, Administrative Support for Tiger Dining Terrell Market, Plains to Plate, and the updated AU Smokehouse: Some of the fresh, local goodness to be found at Plains-to-Plate. Welcome back, Auburn family! Tiger Dining is committed to bringing more fresh, local and sustainable food options to…

adminAugust 14, 2015

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Auburn Earns U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools Award

Dr. Nanette Chadwick and Mike Kensler accepting the US Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools Award from Department of Education officials. In June of this summer the Director of Academic Sustainability Programs, and Nanette Chadwick, and I traveled to Washington D.C. to receive the U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon…

Mike KenslerAugust 13, 2015

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A Debt Worth Repaying

We live in a time and place where we continually hear our leaders talking of the need to reduce the national deficit; how we must learn to live within our means, and make the tough choices now to ensure future generations don’t inherit mountains of debt that strip them of…

Amy StricklandAugust 13, 2015

Director's Corner Updates

Director’s Corner: Jump In!!

“There is no passion to be found playing small, in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” Nelson Mandela “Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” …

Mike KenslerAugust 7, 2015

Sustainability Picnic Welcomes Students Back to Campus

Director’s Corner: The Earth-Friendly, People-Friendly, Two-Wheeled, Human-Powered People Mover

Tackling Trash: Adopt-A-Spot Program Accepting Adopters

Want to Help Improve Bicycling on Campus? Here’s Your Chance!

Updates Requested: Campus-Wide Faculty Directory of Sustainability-Related Research & Courses

AU Seed Library Opens in Time for Fall Planting

Taste the Freshness!

Auburn Earns U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools Award

A Debt Worth Repaying

Director’s Corner: Jump In!!

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