Guest Posts Updates

Is Green the Color of the Hospitality Industry?

Post contributed by Dr. Imran Rahman, Assistant Professor, Department of Nutrition, Dietetics, and Hospitality Management, College of Human Sciences "Business is the economic engine of our Western culture, and if it could be transformed to truly serve nature as well as ourselves, it could become essential to our rescue." -…

adminAugust 22, 2016

Director's Corner Updates

Director’s Corner: Waste? Humans Invented It. Nature Never Heard of It.

“Nature doesn’t have a design problem. People do.” ~William McDonough and Michael Braungart in Cradle to Cradle Our mental models, store our internal assumptions about the way the world works, determine how we see and behave in the world. We accept unexamined assumptions as the way things are, the way…

Mike KenslerApril 7, 2016

Sustainability in Action Updates

Sustainability in Action: Joan Hicken

Joan Hicken works to provide the Auburn Family with recycling options while on campus. Joan Hicken, Waste Reduction and Recycling Coordinator at Auburn University, has found that traditionally people tend to recycle out of an inherent desire to do what is right. Joan says the Waste Reduction & Recycling Department…

adminApril 1, 2016

Updates

$5 off Auburn Apparel Made from Recycled Plastics

The Office of Sustainability is pleased to announce a new partnership between Auburn University and Renew Merchandise to provide $5 gift cards that can be redeemed at Renew Merchandisefor Auburn-branded merchandise. These products are made out of post-consumer recycled plastic bottles (rPET), and manufactured in accordance with fair labor practices…

adminSeptember 30, 2015

Guest Posts Updates

Staples’ Contract with Auburn Supports Environmentally-Responsible Purchasing

Posted contributed by Melissa Morris, Executive Director of Procurement and Payment Services We are excited to share the benefits of Auburn’s new office supply agreement with Staples. Not only does Auburn receive savings off regularly listed prices for our most ordered items, we also have the ability to place online orders,…

adminSeptember 30, 2015

Updates

Tackling Trash: Adopt-A-Spot Program Accepting Adopters

Members of Global Leadership Council maintain their spot. Is your group looking for a service opportunity? Would you like an easy way to help keep Auburn “the Loveliest Village on the Plains”? Then consider signing up for the Adopt-A-Spot (AAS) program today. The process of adopting a spot begins with…

adminAugust 31, 2015

Is Green the Color of the Hospitality Industry?

Director’s Corner: Waste? Humans Invented It. Nature Never Heard of It.

Sustainability in Action: Joan Hicken

$5 off Auburn Apparel Made from Recycled Plastics

Staples’ Contract with Auburn Supports Environmentally-Responsible Purchasing

Tackling Trash: Adopt-A-Spot Program Accepting Adopters

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