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Blog category: Sustainable Development Goals

Post connected to the overall Sustainable Development Goals.

Auburn’s Leadership in Sustainability in Academics: Evidence from the STARS Rating System Office Guest Blog PostsSustainable Development Goal 17Sustainable Development Goal 4

Blog post title: Auburn’s Leadership in Sustainability in Academics: Evidence from the STARS Rating System

By Becki Retzlaff. Many students choose to study at Auburn because it is a big school that can provide many different opportunities for a wide variety of interests. As the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment, and Rating System (STARS) attests, one of those opportunities for students is to learn about sustainability from…
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August 9, 2022
Alumni Feature: Alicia Valenti Sustainability Auburn Alumni AffiliateSustainable Development Goal 11

Blog post title: Alumni Feature: Alicia Valenti

By Alicia Valenti. In today’s world, dire articles about the speed and effects of climate change seem inescapable, and global warming can feel like such an insurmountable challenge that any effort to mitigate it is futile. Our home communities–whether you’re in Alabama or Alaska, Birmingham or Boston–are a great place…
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April 6, 2022
Sustainable for Who? Decisions, Development, & Destruction Office Guest Blog PostsSustainable Development Goal 10Sustainable Development Goal 15Sustainable Development Goal 17

Blog post title: Sustainable for Who? Decisions, Development, & Destruction

By Ryan Thomson. What some people view to be progress, others call ruin. And visa-versa. The line between development and destruction has largely become a matter of perspective. You do need not to be a fervent conservationist or “tree hugger” to prefer an untamed river to a glass condominium. Conversely,…
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April 4, 2022
Salt Marshes are Beautiful, Stinky, and Uncomfortable Places to Work Office Guest Blog PostsSustainable Development Goal 14Sustainable Development Goal 15

Blog post title: Salt Marshes are Beautiful, Stinky, and Uncomfortable Places to Work

By Sam Bickley. The marshes that hug the banks of Alabama’s bays and bayous are smaller than some of their Louisiana or Georgia cousins but are no less beautiful. When the sun is setting over the black needlerush, the dominant marsh plant in our neck of the woods, and you…
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March 21, 2022
Regeneration: Reversing Global Degeneration Director's CornerSustainable Development Goal 11Sustainable Development Goal 13Sustainable Development Goal 7

Blog post title: Regeneration: Reversing Global Degeneration

“If putting the future of life at the heart of everything we do is not central to our purpose and destiny, why are we here?” Paul Hawken In a 1946 New York Times article, the eminently quotable Albert Einstein said, “a new type of thinking is essential if mankind is…
Mike Kensler
March 2, 2022
Alumni Feature: Travys Harper Sustainability Auburn Alumni AffiliateSustainable Development Goal 11Sustainable Development Goal 13Sustainable Development Goal 15

Blog post title: Alumni Feature: Travys Harper

By Travys Harper. I was first exposed to sustainability at Auburn through an Introduction to Sustainability course. At the time, I began to notice that I was already doing some of these things in my life naturally, for example using less water for dishes and brushing my teeth. I was…
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February 23, 2022