Director's Corner

Director’s Corner: The Necessary & Inevitable Transportation Transformation

“The industrial age of energy and transportation will be over by 2030. Maybe before.” Tony Seba, Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation Is it possible that a transformation to sustainable energy and transportation systems is right around the corner? According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, in 2017 the transportation…

Mike KenslerNovember 13, 2019

Updates

Co-Creating a Sustainable Economy–Our Conference Takeaways

Here in the Office of Sustainability, the goal of our internship program is to transform our student interns into sustainability practitioners who are equipped to lead others in solving the sustainability challenges our world is facing. One of the most powerful professional development experiences we provide is the opportunity to…

adminNovember 11, 2019

Sustainability in Action Updates

Campus Changemaker: Mike Stover

Post Contributed by Taylor Kraabel, Office of Sustainability Employee Engagement Coordinator For the past five and a half years, Mike Stover has worked as the Assistant Director for Employer Relations in the Office of Professional and Career Development in the Raymond J. Harbert College of Business. In other words, Mike…

adminOctober 26, 2019

Updates

Purchasing for Your Health & Our Planet

You may have heard the phrase “your vote is your dollar”- where you choose to spend your money speaks to the products and services that you value and support. By purchasing products that minimize negative environmental impacts by using safe ingredients and ethical, energy-efficient manufacturing or from companies that demonstrate…

adminOctober 4, 2019

Director's Corner SDG8

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 KenslerOctober 3, 2019

Announcements Guest Posts

Spring Course Offerings in Sustainability

A wide variety of courses related to sustainability will be offered on campus during the Spring 2020 semester. Twenty courses which span 8 colleges on campus will be offered as part of the Minor in Sustainability Studies. Many of these courses also can be used toward core curriculum requirements, majors,…

adminSeptember 30, 2019

Guest Posts

Considerations of Sustainability in Agriculture

Sustainability is something that has received an increasing amount of attention. Any idea/product/business/practice can be great but if it cannot sustain over time, its ability to survive and make an impact is small. Production agriculture as a whole has to be sustainable otherwise, at some point, we as humans would…

adminSeptember 30, 2019

Guest Posts

Protecting the Quarterback & Protecting our Earth

Offensive lineman Marquel Harrell knows he has an important job when he lines up on the field: protecting the quarterback. That’s a job he puts his heart and soul into, but there is another job he considers equally important off the field: protecting our earth. “I do my part by…

adminSeptember 5, 2019

Guest Posts SDG12 SDG15

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…

adminSeptember 3, 2019

Director's Corner Updates

Director’s Corner: Waste: An Idea Whose Time Has Gone

“There is no such thing as ‘away’. When we throw anything away it must go somewhere.” - Annie Leonard, The Story of Stuff Envision a world where human civilization, including everything we build and use, has a regenerative and restorative impact on the planet, where what we make and how…

Mike KenslerSeptember 3, 2019