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

Director’s Corner: Food: Enjoying the Real, Avoiding the Fake Director's CornerNewsletter Archived Updates

Blog post title: Director’s Corner: Food: Enjoying the Real, Avoiding the Fake

“Food fraud, or the act of defrauding buyers of food or ingredients for economic gain… has vexed the food industry throughout history.” -- Renee Johnson, “Food Fraud and ‘Economically Motivated Adulteration’ of Food and Food Ingredients” This summer I read a fascinating and eye-opening book, Real Food Fake Food, by…
Mike Kensler
August 15, 2017
Easy Actions, Massive Impact: How Students Can Reduce Food Waste Newsletter Archived UpdatesOffice Guest Blog Posts

Blog post title: Easy Actions, Massive Impact: How Students Can Reduce Food Waste

Post contributed by Ruthie Wofford, Communications Coordinator, Hunger Solutions Institute Campus resources exist to help you fight food waste and hunger. As a recent Auburn grad, I can attest to the fact that life as a college student is, in a word, hectic. Between studying, group projects, football games, maintaining a…
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August 8, 2017
Director’s Corner: Sustainable Landscapes: An Expression of Ethics Director's CornerNewsletter Archived Updates

Blog post title: Director’s Corner: Sustainable Landscapes: An Expression of Ethics

“There is as yet no ethic dealing with man’s relation to land and to the animals and plants which grow upon it.  Land … is still property.  The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations.” -- Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 1949 Sustainable landscapes result when…
Mike Kensler
April 3, 2017
Sustainability Courses in 8 Colleges Offered During Summer & Fall Newsletter Archived UpdatesOffice Guest Blog Posts

Blog post title: Sustainability Courses in 8 Colleges Offered During Summer & Fall

Post contributed by Dr. Nanette Chadwick, Director of Academic Sustainability Programs A wide variety of courses are being offered this summer and fall semesters on sustainability topics on campus. They cover issues ranging from water and food, to energy production and materials consumption, ethics and culture. As you prepare to…
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March 31, 2017