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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…
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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…
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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…
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March 13, 2023
The Song of the Taiwanese Trash Truck Archived UpdatesGuest Blog PostsSustainable Development Goal 12Sustainable Development Goal 13

Blog post title: The Song of the Taiwanese Trash Truck

by Jesse Teel Taiwan had the unfortunate nickname “Garbage Island.” Trash polluted the environment through littering and burning. Mountains of waste rotted in the streets. Taiwan initiated a waste management overhaul and the last two decades have seen a transformation to a clean, largely litter-free country.   The waste and recycling…
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January 27, 2023
It’s Electric! Read How to Make an Impact as an Energy Alabama Student Member Archived UpdatesGuest Blog PostsSustainable Development Goal 7

Blog post title: It’s Electric! Read How to Make an Impact as an Energy Alabama Student Member

by Laurel Holmes Interested in sustainable energy? If so, connect with students like you across the state! Energy Alabama is offering free memberships to college students across the state. Joining as a student member offers the opportunity to connect with like-minded peers, industry experts, and professionals advocating for green energy…
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January 5, 2023
The Importance of Planting Native Vegetation Archived UpdatesGuest Blog PostsSustainable Development Goal 15Sustainable Development Goal 3

Blog post title: The Importance of Planting Native Vegetation

by John Kush Anyone who has moved about Auburn in last few years has noticed the continued growth of our community. With this growth, we continue to lose valuable green space and tree canopy, which negatively impacts the ecological function of our local environment. Water filtration decreases with an increase…
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January 4, 2023
I never stopped thinking green… Archived UpdatesGuest Blog PostsSustainability Auburn Alumni AffiliateSustainable Development Goal 12

Blog post title: I never stopped thinking green…

by Jerald Crook Jerald as an Auburn Freshman, holding his teddy bear (Jay). Jay today. “Should I show them my sustainability-themed bear from when I worked at Build-a-Bear?” The three dots from my fellow Auburn band alum Becca’s (‘11) end of the iMessage chat popped up immediately. *bwoop* “Probably not.”…
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November 14, 2022