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Blog category: Newsletter Archived Updates

Archived announcements and updates posted on the blog from the Office of Sustainability.

Watch Your Waste Newsletter Archived UpdatesVideos

Blog post title: Watch Your Waste

 We wanted to start off the new year by watching our waste, so we partnered with Facilities Management Waste Reduction & Recycling Department (WRRD) to conduct an audit of trash generated in RBD Library.  WRRD collected 23 bags of trash from RBD Library within a 4-hour period during the week of…
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February 7, 2019
Application Deadline Extended for Faculty Training Workshop Newsletter Archived UpdatesOffice Guest Blog Posts

Blog post title: Application Deadline Extended for Faculty Training Workshop

Post contributed by Dr. Nanette Chadwick, Academic Sustainability Programs, Director Faculty: Is this the year for you to enhance the sustainability content in the courses you teach? Or to explore new perspectives on how to incorporate aspects of sustainability studies into your teaching? It is possible to include various dimensions of sustainability, including social…
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February 6, 2019
Director’s Corner: The Sustainability Movement is a Social Justice Movement Director's CornerNewsletter Archived Updates

Blog post title: Director’s Corner: The Sustainability Movement is a Social Justice Movement

“he environmental movement can be seen as humanity’s response to contagious policies killing the earth, while the social justice movement addresses economic and legislated pathogens that destroy families, bodies, cultures, and communities.  They are two sides of the same coin, because when you harm one you harm the other.” -Paul…
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February 6, 2019
Understanding Poverty Newsletter Archived UpdatesOffice Guest Blog PostsSustainable Development Goal 1 - No PovertySustainable Development Goals

Blog post title: Understanding Poverty

Post contributed by Sarah Castaneda, Public Relations Communications, and Marketing Major, Honors College Intern As The Honors College k(no)w poverty? Week of Service nears its sixth year, it’s important to consider the impact it has made on both Auburn’s campus, and the state of Alabama alike. The program, exclusively available to incoming…
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February 6, 2019
Call for Applications: Full-time Sustainability Instructor  Newsletter Archived UpdatesOffice Guest Blog Posts

Blog post title: Call for Applications: Full-time Sustainability Instructor 

Post contributed by Dr. Nanette Chadwick, Academic Sustainability Programs, Director Academic Sustainability Programs is hiring a full-time Instructor in Sustainability Studies, to participate in teaching both SUST 2000 Introduction to Sustainability, and SUST 5000 Senior Capstone in Sustainability, beginning Fall Semester 2019. The introductory course has grown rapidly in size over the past…
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February 6, 2019