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Clean Water, Sanitation, & Human Rights: What Do We Owe Our Neighbors?

Directors Corner, February 2022 “Our collective failure to invest in adequate sanitation, clean drinking water, and effective response to pollution is taking life from the most vulnerable and marginalized among us.” Bryan Stevenson What do you think? Is access to clean water and sanitation a basic human right? One would…

Mike KenslerJanuary 28, 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

SDG1 SDG11 SDG6 SDG7 SDG9 Sustainability in Action

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

Guest Posts SDG SDG6 Sustainability in Action Videos

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…

adminFebruary 3, 2020

Director's Corner SDG14 SDG6 Updates

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 KenslerApril 12, 2019

Director's Corner SDG6 Updates

Director’s Corner: Water: The Common Heritage of All Life on Earth

“Basically, each of us is a blob of water with enough macromolecular thickening to give us some stiffness and to keep us from dribbling away.” David Suzuki, geneticist and Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia Wow! I never thought of myself as ‘a blob of water with enough macromolecular…

Mike KenslerOctober 3, 2017

Clean Water, Sanitation, & Human Rights: What Do We Owe Our Neighbors?

Community Garden Water Sustainability Initiative

Campus Changemaker: Dr. Sweta Byahut

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

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

Director’s Corner: Water: The Common Heritage of All Life on Earth

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