Climate Extremes in the News Media

Who: Multidisciplinary class of graduate and undergraduate students in the Sociology of Natural Resources and Environment (RSOC 5650/6650) What: 14th Annual Symposium using the RBD Vision Port. The projects examine the portrayal of climate extremes in the news media When: Thursday, April 28th, 2:00-3:00PM Where: RBD Library Vision Port (1st…

ContributorMarch 25, 2022

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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 KenslerMarch 2, 2022

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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…

ContributorFebruary 23, 2022

Public Lecture: Climate Change

Dr. Stefan Kuks, visiting international scholar in the Department of Political Science and one of Europe's leading experts governmental response to climate change, will give a lecture "Built on Water - The Delta Program of the Netherlands" which will examine how Holland - where half of the country's population lives…

ContributorJanuary 14, 2022

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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 KenslerOctober 4, 2021

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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 KenslerSeptember 1, 2021

Events SDG13 Videos

Population Connection: Why Family Planning Matters to Climate Change

We invite you to watch our webinar on the connections between climate change and population growth. Our guest Hannah Evans with Population Connection presents the ways in which population growth contributes to and is affected by climate change around the world. It includes several case studies which introduce the concepts…

adminApril 23, 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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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

Updates

Plan to Power Down for Break

Post originally published in 2016 and contributed by Kenzley Defler, Office of Sustainability Intern The holiday break for Auburn University has begun, so there’s no doubt people’s thoughts are filled with travel plans to see family and friends. Much of campus is vacant during the winter weeks of December and…

adminDecember 9, 2020

Climate Extremes in the News Media

Regeneration: Reversing Global Degeneration

Alumni Feature: Travys Harper

Public Lecture: Climate Change

Spaceship Earth & the “Ultimate Life Support System”

Climate Change 2021 & a “Quality Education”

Population Connection: Why Family Planning Matters to Climate Change

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

Director’s Corner: Innovate, Or Else

Plan to Power Down for Break

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