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Director’s Corner: Sustainability Reflects “The Progress of the Human Mind”

“Sustainability is a non-negotiable yardstick against which all our actions, goals, and plans have to be measured.” Robert Costanza My favorite memorial or monument in Washington, D.C. is the Jefferson Memorial. It is a beautiful structure in a gorgeous setting, especially when cherry blossoms bloom in the spring. Photo Credit: Neal…

Mike KenslerSeptember 6, 2023

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Employees Welcomed & Encouraged to Engage with Office of Sustainability

Given Auburn’s commitment to sustainability as a core value and guiding principle for its operations, instruction, research, and outreach, it makes an excellent topic for Auburn faculty, administrators, and staff to explore as a part of their professional development. To get you started, we have assembled some resources you may find useful…

Jen MorseSeptember 20, 2022

Director's Corner SDG3

Director’s Corner: Sustainability & the Goal of Human Wellbeing

“The foremost concern is the wellbeing of humanity and the planet we inhabit.” ~ The Dalai Lama Sustainability means so many different things to different people. Definitions and descriptions are all over the place. In my humble opinion, some of them are much better than others. That’s why here at…

Mike KenslerAugust 12, 2022

Spirit of Sustainability Awards Ceremony

The Auburn University Spirit of Sustainability Awards program exists to recognize individuals or groups of Auburn University students, faculty, staff, and alumni that exemplify the Auburn spirit by making significant contributions toward sustainability on campus or in a community at any point along the Sustainability Compass: Nature, Economy, Society, individual…

Jen MorseAugust 2, 2022

Spirit of Sustainability Awards Ceremony

sustainabilityOctober 7, 2020

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The Sustainability Compass

Learn about the Sustainability Compass which provides a framework for the four systems conditions needed to achieve sustainability. You can use the compass points, Nature, Economy, Society, and Wellbeing, as a way to understand the connections between our individual and collective actions and the world around us. For more on…

adminAugust 11, 2020

Sustainability in Action Updates

Campus Changemaker: Caroline Leonard

Post Contributed by Taylor Kraabel, Office of Sustainability Employee Engagement Coordinator Caroline Leonard has successfully climbed the Auburn University career ladder. She began working as a student employee seven years ago, eventually landing a job in the Office of the Registrar as a Transcript Evaluator. Last month, she officially transitioned…

adminNovember 20, 2019

Director's Corner Updates

Director’s Corner: The Sustainability Compass: Systems Thinking, Prisms, & Tapestries

“We need to work together to optimize the system as a whole, not to seek to optimize separate pieces... Optimizing separate pieces destroys the effectiveness of the whole. For the organization to work well as a whole, the components must work together.” Brian Joiner “We don't accomplish anything in this…

Mike KenslerJanuary 15, 2015

Director's Corner Updates

Director’s Corner: Interconnectedness and the Compass of Sustainability

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.” -- John Muir “Ultimately, as quantum physics showed so dramatically, there are not parts at all. What we call ‘a part’ is merely a pattern in an inseparable web of…

Mike KenslerJanuary 20, 2014

Director’s Corner: Sustainability Reflects “The Progress of the Human Mind”

Employees Welcomed & Encouraged to Engage with Office of Sustainability

Director’s Corner: Sustainability & the Goal of Human Wellbeing

Spirit of Sustainability Awards Ceremony

Spirit of Sustainability Awards Ceremony

The Sustainability Compass

Director’s Corner: The Sustainability Compass: Systems Thinking, Prisms, & Tapestries

Director’s Corner: Interconnectedness and the Compass of Sustainability

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