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Blog category: Archived Updates

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

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Director’s Corner: Community Service that Empowers Citizens Archived UpdatesDirector's Corner

Blog post title: Director’s Corner: Community Service that Empowers Citizens

“A determined effort by colleges and universities to promote civic and social responsibility among their students could do much to improve the quality of civic life in America.” Michael McPherson “We stand at the beginning of a world in which free citizens, across boundaries and borders, learn to act together…
Mike Kensler
September 5, 2014
Sustainability in Action: Taryn Wilson Archived UpdatesSustainability in Action

Blog post title: 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…
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April 22, 2014
Director’s Corner: Nature and the Environmental Movement: Human Values in Action Archived UpdatesDirector's Corner

Blog post title: 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 Kensler
April 20, 2014
Director’s Corner: Wellbeing is What it’s All About Archived UpdatesDirector's Corner

Blog post title: 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 Kensler
February 20, 2014
Director’s Corner: Interconnectedness and the Compass of Sustainability Archived UpdatesDirector's Corner

Blog post title: 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 Kensler
January 20, 2014