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Interactive Sustainability Map of Auburn University Created in Capstone Class

Each spring semester small groups of students in the SUST 5000: Senior Capstone in Sustainability apply the principles and concepts of sustainability to a project that addresses sustainability at Auburn. This year Courtney Eagle, Laine Harrington, Evanthi Hettiaratchi, Andrew Holley, & Matthew Manning developed a sustainability map of campus. The…

adminMay 5, 2021

Events Updates Videos

Climate Solutions from Around the Globe Shared

Following the Solve Climate by 2030 Dialogs, throughout the world and the United States, students summarized big takeaways for their locations in 30 seconds. Hear the solutions they suggest.

adminApril 29, 2021

The Dalai Lama with Greta Thunberg & Leading Scientists: A Conversation on the Crisis of Climate Feedback Loops

Woodwell Climate Research Center is hosting two climate scientists, Sue Natali and Bill Moomaw, in a panel with the Dalai Lama and climate activist Greta Thunberg in a free livestream event from the Mind & Life Institute. The intergenerational discussion will explore what can be done to slow, halt, or…

Jen MorseJanuary 6, 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

Updates

Webinars, Documentaries, & Professional Development Opportunities Expanded

To support faculty, staff, and students during this time, we have updated our online resources. OUR CALENDAR We now feature online events and webinars, instead of in-person events. If you know of any upcoming sustainability-related webinars you think others would be interested in, please email them to sustain@auburn.edu. SOLVE CLIMATE…

adminMarch 24, 2020

Guest Posts SDG13

Food & Climate Change: A Permaculture Perspective

Our current food industry isn’t working. Agriculture accounts for 9.3% of the United States’ carbon footprint. This carbon footprint is furthered when we consider the high percentage of this food that goes to waste. Agriculture is a designed human system which has created wealth and security, fueled industrialization and specialization of…

adminFebruary 26, 2020

SDG13 Updates Videos

Dr. Katharine Hayhoe: Faith, Climate Change & Our Culture in the U.S.

Learn about the SDGs & AU and our contributions related to this post.

adminFebruary 25, 2020

Director's Corner Updates

Director’s Corner: Humanity’s growing ecological footprint: “the only measure which tracks how much nature we have – and how much nature we use.”

“If we did to our bank account what we have been doing to the Earth’s natural capital we would have been bankrupt long ago.” ~Christina Figueres, former Executive Secretary, United Nations Frameworks Convention on Climate Change Planet Earth has over eons generated a vast endowment of natural capital, which the…

Mike KenslerJanuary 9, 2020

Announcements Guest Posts

New AU Course on Personal Resilience & Sustainability

"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" ~Mary Oliver, A Summer's Day Academic Sustainability Programs is offering this semester a new 1-credit course, SUST 4900 Personal Resilience and Sustainability. This course arose out of an understanding among our sustainability instructors that…

adminDecember 19, 2019

Director's Corner SDG13

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 KenslerDecember 4, 2019

Interactive Sustainability Map of Auburn University Created in Capstone Class

Climate Solutions from Around the Globe Shared

The Dalai Lama with Greta Thunberg & Leading Scientists: A Conversation on the Crisis of Climate Feedback Loops

Plan to Power Down for Break

Webinars, Documentaries, & Professional Development Opportunities Expanded

Food & Climate Change: A Permaculture Perspective

Dr. Katharine Hayhoe: Faith, Climate Change & Our Culture in the U.S.

Director’s Corner: Humanity’s growing ecological footprint: “the only measure which tracks how much nature we have – and how much nature we use.”

New AU Course on Personal Resilience & Sustainability

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

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