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How Auburn University & Higher Education Can Address Quality Education Guest PostsSustainable Development Goal 11Sustainable Development Goal 4Sustainable Development Goals

Blog post title: How Auburn University & Higher Education Can Address Quality Education

By Miriam Wyman. The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Quality Education recognizes the need to “ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.”  Quality Education is also highlighted under the U.S. Chapter of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)’s vision for achieving the SDGs through “facilitating…
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August 27, 2021
Orange & Blue Goes Green with Gameday Waste & Recycling Program Guest PostsSustainable Development Goal 12Sustainable Development Goals

Blog post title: Orange & Blue Goes Green with Gameday Waste & Recycling Program

By Joan Hicken. Student volunteers pass out bags to tailgaters to collect plastic bottles and aluminum cans for recycling. College sports are making a commitment to greener practices as part of the growing sports sustainability movement. They support campus-wide environmental goals, provide a platform for environmental education, and signal Auburn…
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August 27, 2021
Where, How, & Why We Learn: Promises of Whole School Sustainability Guest PostsSustainable Development Goal 4Sustainable Development Goals

Blog post title: Where, How, & Why We Learn: Promises of Whole School Sustainability

By Lisa Kensler. Sustainable Development Goal 4 calls for ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all. The targets speak to addressing every aspect of education from equity and teacher quality to facilities and curricula. The systemic challenges facing education and those of us striving to improve it – whether…
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August 24, 2021
The Power of Partnerships to Promote Global Sustainability: The Story of One Alabama Community Guest PostsSustainable Development Goal 1 - No PovertySustainable Development Goal 17Sustainable Development Goal 8

Blog post title: The Power of Partnerships to Promote Global Sustainability: The Story of One Alabama Community

By Hollie Cost. Sixteen years ago, in a bout of insanity, as a full-time professor and mother of two young boys I willingly jumped into local politics. This was motivated by my overwhelming desire, as a self-proclaimed tree-hugger, to create a citywide recycling program in a small town in Alabama…
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August 9, 2021
Community-University Partnerships: Lessons from the Field Guest PostsSustainable Development Goal 17Sustainable Development Goal 2

Blog post title: Community-University Partnerships: Lessons from the Field

By Sean A. Forbes and Carey E. Andrzejewski. Auburn University’s classification as a Carnegie Community Engaged university speaks to the institution’s recognition of the value of partnerships in fulfilling its land-grant mission of bettering the lives of those in Alabama and beyond. The Carnegie Foundation articulates that “the purpose of community…
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August 9, 2021
Campus Race To Zero Waste Encourages Us To Waste Less & Recycle More Guest Posts

Blog post title: Campus Race To Zero Waste Encourages Us To Waste Less & Recycle More

By Joan Hicken. Campus Race to Zero Waste Logo Auburn University is participating in the Campus Race to Zero Waste (formerly known as RecycleMania), a friendly competition for colleges and universities to promote waste reduction and recycling to their campus communities, that runs through March 27. During the eight-week tournament,…
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February 26, 2021
Academic Sustainability Program’s 2021 Fall Line Course (Re)Design Workshop EventsGuest Posts

Blog post title: Academic Sustainability Program’s 2021 Fall Line Course (Re)Design Workshop

By Sarah Hamilton. All Auburn University faculty are invited to apply to the Academic Sustainability Program's 2021 Fall Line Course (Re)Design Workshop, to be held May 3-7. Facilitators from the Sustainability Program and the Biggio Center for Teaching and Learning will work closely with a small group of participants to…
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February 22, 2021