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Sustainable Development Goals

Post connected to the overall Sustainable Development Goals.

Lee County Remembrance Project: Reflecting on the Past to Build a Better Future Guest PostsSDG10Sustainability in ActionUpdates

Lee County Remembrance Project: Reflecting on the Past to Build a Better Future

In partnership with the Equal Justice Initiative, the Lee County Remembrance Project (LCRP) focuses on confronting the history of racial terror in Lee County and engaging the community through conversations about the narrative of racial injustices and the legacy of racial inequality in our community. In an effort to accomplish…
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February 3, 2020
Climate & Water Security: Vulnerable Communities in Peri-urban India Guest PostsSDG6Sustainability in ActionSustainable Development GoalsVideos

Climate & Water Security: Vulnerable Communities in Peri-urban India

There are many vulnerable communities around the world whose livelihood challenges are exacerbated by climate change. In this blog post, I would like to introduce readers to the problems of peri-urban communities. In India, peri-urban communities live at the fringes of highly concentrated urban centers, in high-rise apartment complexes and…
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February 3, 2020
Director’s Corner: Solar Power & Climate Change–Closing the Emissions Gap Director's CornerSDG13

Director’s Corner: Solar Power & Climate Change–Closing the Emissions Gap

“We are like tenant farmers, chopping down the fence around our house for fuel, when we should be using nature’s inexhaustible sources of energy—sun, wind, and tide.”  Thomas Edison in 1931, as quoted by James D. Newton On November 26th, 2019, the United Nations Environment Program released its Emissions Gap…
Mike Kensler
December 4, 2019
Director’s Corner: Overconsumption, Climate Change, the Doughnut, & Wellbeing Director's CornerSDG8

Director’s Corner: Overconsumption, Climate Change, the Doughnut, & Wellbeing

“There is a world of difference between well-being and being well-off.” Stefan Klein, The Science of Happiness Imagine an economy and a future where Wellbeing, the western point on the Sustainability Compass, one of the four system conditions of a sustainable world, is the point and the goal; and a…
Mike Kensler
October 3, 2019
How to Recycle and Repurpose University Property Instead of Sending it to Landfills Guest PostsSDG12SDG15

How to Recycle and Repurpose University Property Instead of Sending it to Landfills

ALRM Overhead Google Image Ag Land and Resource Management (ALRM) provides construction, earth preparation, irrigation systems, AG building repair, roads, and ponds in support of the College of Agriculture (COAG) and the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station (AAES). In the fall of 2018, ALRM was directed to begin the process of…
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September 3, 2019
Recycling: It’s a Team Effort Guest PostsSDG12

Recycling: It’s a Team Effort

Walmart founder, Sam Walton, said, “We’re all working together; that’s the secret.” Let me tell you about our little secret! At Auburn, we are making a difference in waste reduction at the Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM) by working together. The CVM has partnered with AU Waste Reduction…
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August 30, 2019
Director’s Corner: The Oceans Cradle All Life on Earth & Require Immediate Protection & Restoration Director's CornerSDG14SDG6Updates

Director’s Corner: The Oceans Cradle All Life on Earth & Require Immediate Protection & Restoration

“It ought to be hard for a species that occupies roughly 10% of the earth’s land to mess up 70% of the planet’s entire surface. Yet humans are well on the way to wrecking the oceans.” Jennifer Duggan, Time, February 4, 2019 Life on Earth began in primitive seas about…
Mike Kensler
April 12, 2019
Director’s Corner: Consumerism Drives Consumption that is Consuming the Planet Director's CornerSDG8Updates

Director’s Corner: Consumerism Drives Consumption that is Consuming the Planet

“People say they want to have it all.  But where would they put it?” Steven Wright The word “consumption” was used in ancient Greece almost 2,500 years ago to describe the disease pulmonary tuberculosis because the disease appeared to consume the body it had infected.  This form of consumption has…
Mike Kensler
October 31, 2018
How Your Mental Wellbeing Has Everything to do with Sustainability Guest PostsSDG3Updates

How Your Mental Wellbeing Has Everything to do with Sustainability

Contributed by Markie Pasternak, Coordinator of Mental Well Being at Health Promotion and Wellness Services The Compass Here at Auburn University, we use a model to inform our ideas about sustainability called the ‘Sustainability Compass’. Just like on a navigational compass, there are four directions that can guide you towards…
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September 25, 2018