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Climate Change: A Story of Opportunities and Possibilities to Reverse Global Warming, presented by Dr. Jonathan Foley

Please join us for our Spring 2024 Sustainability Speaker Series: - Climate Change: A Story of Opportunities and Possibilities to Reverse Global Warming with Dr. Jonathan Foley. Jonathan Foley, Ph.D., Executive Director of Project Drawdown, is a world-renowned environmental scientist, sustainability expert, author, and public speaker. His work focuses on understanding…

Jen MorseJanuary 5, 2024

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Counting Carbon

As we watch the calendar flip to a new year, we often find ourselves looking back in reflection while simultaneously making resolutions for how we might make our lives in the new year better. We take personal stock so we can make concrete plans to build a better tomorrow for…

adminJanuary 7, 2020

Director's Corner Updates

Director’s Corner: Trees, Forests, & Reversing Global Warming

“… in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.” - President John F. Kennedy, 1963 Human activity since the dawn of…

Mike KenslerAugust 13, 2019

Director's Corner Updates

Director’s Corner: Project Drawdown: We Can Reverse Global Warming and Create Security and Wellbeing for All

In September I attended a Chattahoochee Riverkeeper Climate Change Conference where I heard Paul Hawken speak about his new book, Project Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming. His ideas had a huge impact on me. I left the presentation thinking very differently about how to…

Mike KenslerOctober 31, 2017

Director's Corner SDG7 Updates

Director’s Corner: Renewable Energy: Things are Changing Fast, and They Need To

“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. I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until…

Mike KenslerFebruary 3, 2016

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Auburn University Signs Pledge to Demonstrate Support for Strong International Climate Action

The 2015 UN Climate Change Conference is in Paris. Auburn University recently joined more than 200 other colleges and universities in signing the American Campuses on Climate Pledge. The White House Council on Environmental Quality organized this effort to demonstrate support in higher education for strong international action on climate…

Mike KenslerNovember 20, 2015

Sustainability in Action Updates

Sustainability In Action: Trey McDonald

Over the past decade, anthropogenic climate change has garnered huge amounts of attention, and for good reason. As average global temperatures increase, so does the number of people working to adapt to unavoidable changes and prevent the worst from happening. Trey McDonald, Auburn alumnus, 2014 Spirit of Sustainability Award winner,…

adminMarch 5, 2015

Director's Corner Updates

Director’s Corner: The Climate Change Conversation: Adapt and Mitigate

“Climate change: adapting to what we can’t prevent, and preventing what we can’t adapt to.” Dr. Stephen Schneider, Stanford University “We’re staring down a climate bubble that poses enormous risks to both our environment and economy. The warning signs are clear and growing more urgent as the risks go unchecked. …

Mike KenslerMarch 5, 2015

Climate Change: A Story of Opportunities and Possibilities to Reverse Global Warming, presented by Dr. Jonathan Foley

Counting Carbon

Director’s Corner: Trees, Forests, & Reversing Global Warming

Director’s Corner: Project Drawdown: We Can Reverse Global Warming and Create Security and Wellbeing for All

Director’s Corner: Renewable Energy: Things are Changing Fast, and They Need To

Auburn University Signs Pledge to Demonstrate Support for Strong International Climate Action

Sustainability In Action: Trey McDonald

Director’s Corner: The Climate Change Conversation: Adapt and Mitigate

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