Sustainability Capstone Waste Audit

Students from the Sustainability 5000 Capstone class will be performing a trash audit of the Lower Quad residential halls on Cater Lawn. The students will be sorting trash, measuring the contamination rate, and measuring how much waste is produced in these residential halls. This event will help Auburn University’s Waste…

ContributorMarch 3, 2023

Farm Journal Foundation Speaker Series

In developing countries, 40 percent of food losses occur at post-harvest and processing levels. In industrialized countries, more than 40 percent of losses happen at retail and consumer levels. Creating solutions for food waste is a challenge that requires navigating complex landscapes of income disparities, cultural and societal practices, and…

ContributorSeptember 19, 2022

Farm Journal Foundation: Food Waste & Loss: Global Perspectives

Studies indicate that as much as one third of all food is either lost at the farm, trade, or processing stages or wasted at the retail or consumer end. Remarkably, while food losses are mainly a problem in lower income countries due to issues such as lack of infrastructure and…

ContributorApril 7, 2022

Guest Posts SDG12

Once is Not Enough. Recycle.

By Joan Hicken. Colorful illustration of the three Rs – reduce, reuse and recycle. Living sustainably is about making small changes. It is important to remember the three Rs – reduce, reuse and recycle. Practicing them will reduce the amount of waste you produce. Adopting these habits now will set…

adminAugust 9, 2021

Announcements

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

Updates

Meetings Happen: Make A Difference in Yours

Recently our office received an anonymous request to crack down on the overprinting of materials for meetings on campus. Apparently, this person’s office prints the agenda and all the PowerPoint slides for taking notes with a cover sheet to divide each presenters’ notes. In the end, the packets end up…

Jen MorseJanuary 8, 2020

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

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

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