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Sustainability in Action: Taryn Wilson

Making Time Count: A Dedicated and Extremely Involved Sustainability Advocate by: Jaclyn Brass Office of Sustainability Intern Taryn Wilson,a junior in accounting, approaches life with an immovable determination and a core dedication to sustainability. From SGA involvement to recycling enthusiast, Taryn has embarked on a journey to effect change at…

adminApril 22, 2014

Director's Corner Updates

Director’s Corner: Nature and the Environmental Movement: Human Values in Action

“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.” ~Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac “The components of the natural world are myriad but they constitute a single living system. There is no escape…

Mike KenslerApril 20, 2014

Director's Corner Updates

Director’s Corner: The Economy: In Need of a Major Makeover

“Policy itself follows from what is measured, and if all that is measured is money, all policy will be about is getting more money.” ~Martin Seligman “At the end of the day, the role of business is to generate prosperity and a better quality of life for everyone… we should…

Mike KenslerMarch 20, 2014

Sustainability in Action Updates

Sustainability in Action: Tammy Hollis

Creating a Culture of Health and Wellbeing by: Jaclyn Brass Office of Sustainability Intern Tammy Hollis has become a force for health, wellness and sustainability on Auburn’s campus. Tammy believes in the power of individual wellness in leading a sustainable life because she asserts that without health, it’s difficult to…

adminFebruary 20, 2014

Director's Corner Updates

Director’s Corner: Wellbeing is What it’s All About

“There is a world of difference between wellbeing and being well off.” Stefan Klein, The Science of Happiness “For this generation, ours, …the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.” Jimmy Carter As a prism reveals the constituent,…

Mike KenslerFebruary 20, 2014

Director's Corner Updates

Director’s Corner: Interconnectedness and the Compass of Sustainability

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.” -- John Muir “Ultimately, as quantum physics showed so dramatically, there are not parts at all. What we call ‘a part’ is merely a pattern in an inseparable web of…

Mike KenslerJanuary 20, 2014

Sustainability in Action: Taryn Wilson

Director’s Corner: Nature and the Environmental Movement: Human Values in Action

Director’s Corner: The Economy: In Need of a Major Makeover

Sustainability in Action: Tammy Hollis

Director’s Corner: Wellbeing is What it’s All About

Director’s Corner: Interconnectedness and the Compass of Sustainability

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