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Post connected to the overall Sustainable Development Goals.

Spaceship Earth & the “Ultimate Life Support System” Director's CornerSustainable Development Goal 14

Blog post title: 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 Kensler
October 4, 2021
When It Rains, It Pours: Sustainability Picnic 2021 EventsSustainable Development Goal 2

Blog post title: 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,…
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September 2, 2021
Climate Change 2021 & a “Quality Education” Director's CornerSustainable Development Goal 13Sustainable Development Goal 4Sustainable Development Goal 7Sustainable Development Goals

Blog post title: Climate Change 2021 & a “Quality Education”

By Mike Kensler. For September, this column continues our tour of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this month focusing on SDG 4: Quality Education. Sort of. As I write this in late August 2021, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has just released its Sixth Assessment Report, also…
Mike Kensler
September 1, 2021
How Auburn University & Higher Education Can Address Quality Education Guest Blog 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 Blog 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 Blog 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 Blog 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 Blog 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