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Guest Posts SDG5

To Men Becoming Gender Justice Allies at Auburn

By Tal Peretz I had never heard the word feminism until my first semester of college. I signed up for a required GenED class with gender studies professor Marla Jaksch, and found that feminism made sense of my life in ways nothing else ever had. It didn’t just illuminate women…

adminJanuary 7, 2022

Guest Posts SDG11 SDG2 SDG6

Community Garden Water Sustainability Initiative

By Marley Halter. Early this year, the Community Garden at Auburn University (CGAU) Advisory Committee developed a 2021 Water Savings Program. As part of the program, irrigation timers were phased out of use, and garden staff planned to raise awareness of the problem of water waste, and to hold classes…

adminDecember 7, 2021

Guest Posts SDG3 SDG5

Alabama, Eradicate the Tampon Tax

By Regan Moss. Menstruation is a shared experience for many female-bodied individuals. Despite the normalcy of having a menstrual cycle, pervasive stigmas surrounding female bodies and their functions persist. One of the most notable outcomes of the stigmas associated with periods and menstruators is the economic burden of supporting one’s…

adminDecember 7, 2021

SDG1 SDG17 SDG5 Sustainability in Action

Campus Changemaker: Women’s Initiatives and Gender Equity

By Grace Reilein. Dr. Nashira Williams, Director of Women's Initiatives and Gender Equity at Auburn In the world of sustainability, there is the constant reminder that everything is interconnected. For example, when investigating SDG 5 Gender Equality, issues under that goal can be easily connected to poverty, health care and hunger issues, as women and…

adminDecember 7, 2021

Director's Corner SDG13 SDG16

Is the Response to Climate Change a War? Yes. And No.

As I write this, the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties – COP 26 for short – is about to convene in Glasgow Scotland. It opens on October 31 and ends on November 12. Before 1995 when COP 1 was convened we already knew that planetary warming…

Mike KenslerNovember 2, 2021

SDG1 Sustainability in Action

Campus Changemaker: ONE Campaign at Auburn

By Grace Reilein. Colleges and universities are often the breeding grounds for change. Students and faculty alike come up with innovative solutions to global issues that many individuals face. Students of institutions across the United States are presented with unique opportunities to make a difference, and Auburn University is one such institution. One of these…

adminOctober 28, 2021

Guest Posts SDG14 SDG17

Cooperation for Conservation: How Communities that Depend on Coral Reefs are Responding to the Climate Crisis

By Kelly Dunning. Coral reefs are the most colorful, lively, beautiful locations of life below the water, and yet they are the most threatened. Human burning of fossil fuel for heat, energy, and industry has led to a warming ocean, and with it, corals that turn a bright white color…

adminOctober 5, 2021

SDG14

Campus Changemaker: Tony Moss

By Grace Reilein. It is hard to imagine that the beautiful planet that we call home is 71% water. As humans, we occupy the land that only takes up around 20%. It can be easy to disregard the ocean and only focus on our stretch of land, but that would…

adminOctober 5, 2021

Director's Corner SDG14

Spaceship Earth & the “Ultimate Life Support System”

“I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.” ~ Buckminster Fuller Imagine yourself on the International Space Station (ISS). You’re up there captivated by views of our beautiful planet, doing experiments, completing assigned tasks, living, and floating weightless. Hurtling around the world at over 17,000 miles per hour, there is…

Mike KenslerOctober 4, 2021

Events SDG2

When It Rains, It Pours: Sustainability Picnic 2021

By Molly Kilpatrick. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, and sometimes it just rains. The Sustainability Picnic was canceled this year due to heavy afternoon rain on Wednesday, August 25, 2021. The annual Welcome Week picnic brings together Auburn students, employees, and community members for a gathering of all things sustainability with free food,…

adminSeptember 2, 2021

To Men Becoming Gender Justice Allies at Auburn

Community Garden Water Sustainability Initiative

Alabama, Eradicate the Tampon Tax

Campus Changemaker: Women’s Initiatives and Gender Equity

Is the Response to Climate Change a War? Yes. And No.

Campus Changemaker: ONE Campaign at Auburn

Cooperation for Conservation: How Communities that Depend on Coral Reefs are Responding to the Climate Crisis

Campus Changemaker: Tony Moss

Spaceship Earth & the “Ultimate Life Support System”

When It Rains, It Pours: Sustainability Picnic 2021

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