Category

Blog category: Archived Updates

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

Director’s corner: Green Certified Buildings Are Good For You! Archived UpdatesDirector's CornerSustainable Development Goal 11Sustainable Development Goal 3Sustainable Development Goal 9

Blog post title: Director’s corner: Green Certified Buildings Are Good For You!

“We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us.”  Winston Churchill  The M. Miller Gorrie Center received LEED certification in 2008. Photo credit: Jen Morse. Modern humans in modern surroundings spend almost all of their time indoors.  According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), North Americans, on average, spend…
Mike Kensler
April 3, 2023
Campus Changemaker: Karen McNeal Archived UpdatesSustainability in ActionSustainable Development Goal 13Sustainable Development Goal 15Sustainable Development Goal 16Sustainable Development Goal 4

Blog post title: Campus Changemaker: Karen McNeal

Karen on a hike with her family By Camille Colter, Office of Sustainability Karen McNeal is a professor of Geosciences within the College of Sciences and Mathematics, hired as one of the first disciple-based education researchers (DBERs). DBERs conduct nontraditional disciplinary research on education. Karen’s work focuses on understanding how…
Contributor
March 31, 2023
“Handprint” Your Way to A Better World Archived UpdatesGuest Blog PostsSustainable Development Goal 12

Blog post title: “Handprint” Your Way to A Better World

By Mike Buhmann and Stephanie Richardson In 2021, Auburn University purchased over 800 chairs from Humanscale (the premier designer and manufacturer of ergonomic and sustainable furniture) for use in several departments around campus.   This leaves the world better off by conserving and returning:    3,611 kg of CO2, which equates to…
Contributor
March 31, 2023
The Weather is More than Small Talk: What I Learned from Climate Scientists on a Trip to the Southeast Archived UpdatesGuest Blog PostsSustainable Development Goal 13Sustainable Development Goal 16Sustainable Development Goal 17

Blog post title: The Weather is More than Small Talk: What I Learned from Climate Scientists on a Trip to the Southeast

By Sabrina De Los Santos Rodríguez Dark clouds over the Week's Bay boat. Photo credits: Sabrina De Los Santos Rodríguez On Sunday, August 7th, 2022 I was on a white van with seven other people - all climate science graduate students and professors with diverse specialties. We were leading the…
Contributor
March 27, 2023
Climate Change: An Issue of Climate Justice Archived UpdatesGuest Blog PostsSustainable Development Goal 1 - No PovertySustainable Development Goal 10Sustainable Development Goal 13Sustainable Development Goal 16Sustainable Development Goal 17Sustainable Development Goal 5Sustainable Development Goal 6

Blog post title: Climate Change: An Issue of Climate Justice

by Ghanashyam Khanal and Nabin Bhandari  While about two frenetic weeks of discussions and negotiations on climate change, damage and loss, and climate finance were going on at COP27 in Egypt, a documentary that depicted the impact of climate change on women and children in the Himalayan regions of Nepal…
Contributor
March 13, 2023
The Big and Small ways to Celebrate Earth Day Archived UpdatesGuest Blog PostsSustainable Development Goal 13Sustainable Development Goal 14Sustainable Development Goal 15

Blog post title: The Big and Small ways to Celebrate Earth Day

by Becki Retzlaff Every Earth Day I am reminded of two things. The first is when I was a teenager, and my friends and I volunteered to plant trees at a park near my home in Michigan. We labored all day to carefully plant little pine tree seedlings in long…
Contributor
March 13, 2023
Want to Get Paid to Make a Difference? Apply Now to Join Our Team! Archived Updates

Blog post title: Want to Get Paid to Make a Difference? Apply Now to Join Our Team!

We’re seeking 4 undergraduate students to join our team for the 2023-24 academic year! Students from the Office of Sustainability in Baltimore for the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education conference. We're looking for folks who will apply their knowledge, skills, & talents to individual & team…
Amy Strickland
February 1, 2023
Director’s Corner: Warriors for the Human Spirit Archived UpdatesDirector's CornerSustainable Development Goal 13Sustainable Development Goal 4

Blog post title: Director’s Corner: Warriors for the Human Spirit

“A Warrior for the Human Spirit is a decent human being who aspires to be of service in an indecent, inhumane time.”  Margaret Wheatley, Who Do We Choose to Be?  Effective individuals, leaders, teams, organizations, and societies practice a common discipline:  the willingness and courage to, in the words of…
Mike Kensler
January 31, 2023
Campus Changemaker: Kimberly Mulligan-Guy Archived UpdatesSustainability in ActionSustainable Development Goal 10Sustainable Development Goal 16Sustainable Development Goal 4Sustainable Development Goal 5

Blog post title: Campus Changemaker: Kimberly Mulligan-Guy

by Camille Colter, Office of Sustainability Photo courtesy of Kimberly Mulligan-Guy Let’s talk about diversity, equity, and inclusion. Wait, scratch that. Inclusion, equity, THEN diversity.   Formally, Dr. Kimberly Mulligan-Guy is the Assistant Dean for Inclusion, Equity, and Diversity (IED) in the College of Science and Mathematics (COSAM). Informally, she is…
Contributor
January 31, 2023