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Campus Changemaker: Dr. Sweta Byahut

By Chloe McMahon. Dr. Sweta Byahut serves as an Associate Professor and current Director at Auburn’s Community Planning graduate program. She has been teaching at Auburn for nearly nine years. A seasoned urban planner, her passion for sustainable urban development is evident both in her teaching and research. Since she…

adminApril 5, 2021

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Dread & Disbelief: My Brother’s Death & Climate Change

“The future is not set in stone. Some amount of change is inevitable. It’s as if we’ve been smoking a pack of cigarettes a day for decades, but we don’t have lung cancer yet. The amount of change that we’re going to see—whether it’s serious, whether it’s dangerous, whether it’s…

Mike KenslerMarch 29, 2021

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Are You Recycling Correctly? Maybe.

By David Knowles. There are intricacies to waste sorting that we think we understand but we really really do not. Your local recycling program might not accept all recyclable items and putting things in the recycling bin that cannot be recycled will contaminate the recycling stream. This can be confusing,…

adminMarch 24, 2021

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Campus Changemakers Rob Engle & Scott McClure on energy engineering & designing a more sustainable campus

By Chloe McMahon. Rob Engle and Scott McClure both work as energy engineers for the Department of Facilities Management. The central concern of their work is to ensure that the university is using energy as efficiently as possible. Though this task may seem straightforward enough, they have found that maximizing energy efficiency means having a holistic knowledge about all…

adminMarch 2, 2021

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To achieve clean energy, let’s rethink carbon

“So, when you asked, ‘What is the next big opportunity?’ it is design. It is design for next use in the circular economy. But safe and circular.” Bill McDonough Clean, renewable energy is the only energy path to a livable future. In 2015, 193 nations agreed that a shift to…

Mike KenslerMarch 2, 2021

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Racial and Economic Disparity in the Age of COVID-19

By Chloe McMahon. As all of us know, COVID-19 has left an indelible mark on every aspect of our lives. For so many, 2020 has been a year marred by loss, and for others, we have grown increasingly thankful for all we did not lose. Globally, we have mourned the…

adminFebruary 1, 2021

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A “Decent” Economy

“If you define the goal of a society as GNP , that society will do its best to produce GNP. It will not produce welfare, equity, justice, or efficiency unless you define a goal and regularly measure and report the state of welfare, equity, justice, or efficiency.” ~Donella Meadows More…

Mike KenslerFebruary 1, 2021

Guest Posts SDG8

The Key To An Inclusive Workplace Is Being Intentional

By Mike Stover. As I considered this month’s Sustainable Development Goal #8, “Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all”, I felt the need to step back from my normal work at Auburn and evaluate the goal from a different perspective. This…

adminJanuary 28, 2021

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Sustainable Community Planning Addresses the Racist Origins of Interstate Highways

By Rebecca Retzlaff. For this month’s theme of sustainability goal 8: decent work and economic growth, I want to focus on transportation equity, an often-overlooked, but nonetheless essential, component of working and economic growth. A few years ago, my historic preservation planning class (CPLN 5400/6400) was working on a historic…

adminJanuary 21, 2021

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Director’s Corner: Innovate, Or Else

"The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live." ~William McDonough Photo credit: Haiku Deck This month in our exploration of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, created by 193 countries under the auspices of…

Mike KenslerJanuary 5, 2021