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Find Your Sustain Ability

What the heck does sustainability mean, anyway? Turns out, it means more than you might think.

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Find Your Sustain Ability: U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich

Dec. 23, 2020

Join App State Chief Sustainability Officer Lee Ball and guest U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, of New Mexico, as they discuss issues around the climate crisis — what Heinrich calls "the challenge of our time" — on this new episode of Find Your Sustain Ability. Topics range from the new generation of environmentalists and the parallels between COVID-19 and climate, to the landmark passage of the Great American Outdoors Act, which will permanently fund infrastructure and facilities repairs and upgrades on national parks and other federal lands.

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Find Your Sustain Ability: David Karlsgodt

Sep. 3, 2020

What is the future of sustainability on college campuses? David Karlsgodt joins Lee Ball on the latest Find Your Sustain Ability.

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Find Your Sustain Ability: Dr. Baker Perry

Jan. 27, 2020

Appalachian's own Dr. Baker Perry has ascended to great heights for climate change research. On this Find Your Sustain Ability, Perry provides insights from his 2019 National Geographic and Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Extreme Expedition to Mount Everest, in which he and the expedition team climbed more than 27,000 feet to install the world's highest weather station.

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What the heck does sustainability mean, anyway? Turns out, it means more than you might think. Lee Ball has insightful conversations with faculty experts, and in doing so, helps each of us find our Sustain Ability.

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Dr. Rajat Panwar
On this Find Your Sustain Ability, App State associate professor Dr. Rajat Panwar discusses his lifelong work in sustainable business management and his journey as a sustainability researcher — from his home country of India, to a Buddhist monastery in the Himalayas, to App State's campus. Listen in to learn more.
39:37
Feb. 15, 2021
Martin Heinrich
Join App State Chief Sustainability Officer Lee Ball and guest U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, of New Mexico, as they discuss issues around the climate crisis — what Heinrich calls "the challenge of our time" — on this new episode of Find Your Sustain Ability. Topics range from the new generation of environmentalists and the parallels between COVID-19 and climate, to the landmark passage of the Great American Outdoors Act, which will permanently fund infrastructure and facilities repairs and upgrades on national parks and other federal lands.
46:41
Dec. 23, 2020
David Karlsgodt

What is the future of sustainability on college campuses? David Karlsgodt joins Lee Ball on the latest Find Your Sustain Ability.
44:39
Sep. 3, 2020
Dr. Baker Perry
Appalachian's own Dr. Baker Perry has ascended to great heights for climate change research. On this Find Your Sustain Ability, Perry provides insights from his 2019 National Geographic and Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Extreme Expedition to Mount Everest, in which he and the expedition team climbed more than 27,000 feet to install the world's highest weather station.
39:20
Jan. 27, 2020
Amory Lovins explains how “off-the-shelf technologies” and integrated design can achieve energy and cost efficiency
“Buildings ought to create delight when entered and satisfaction, health, happiness (and) productivity when occupied. Regret when departed. They ought to look like they grew there.” — Amory Lovins, chief scientist at the Rocky Mountain Institute, on integrated design goals for the built environment.
23:26
Nov. 27, 2019
Dr. David Orr on sustainability education and politics and his earliest memories of the natural environment
Host Dr. Lee F. Ball, Appalachian's chief sustainability officer, interviews one of the founders of the sustainability education movement — Dr. David Orr, the Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics Emeritus at Oberlin College and special assistant to the college's president. "Can you make a sustainable, just, fair, decent and prosperous world?" Orr asks. "I think the answer is yes. I take my hope from just the work that we all do. And the doing of the work is what generates hope."
29:03
Oct. 9, 2019
Kailash Satyarthi — fighting child labor from Delhi sweatshops to U.S. tobacco fields
Forty years ago, Kailash Satyarthi was a successful electrical engineer who chose to leave his career behind. He would go on to rescue 80,000 children from slavery and win the Nobel Peace Prize.
31:29
July 8, 2019
Adam Hege on Social Justice and Food Insecurity in rural Appalachia
Appalachian's Director of Sustainability, Dr. Lee Ball sits down with Assistant Professor of Public Health, Adam Hege to discuss his journey from studying exercise science to addressing issues like poverty and food security.
22:46
Jan. 19, 2018
Majora Carter “The Prophet of Local”
Whether she's turning a landfill into an award-winning 3 million-dollar park, or transforming a neglected streetscape into a picturesque, Parisian-cafe inspired greenspace, Majora Carter's vision and drive for sustainable, local living is potent and compelling.
19:35
July 26, 2017
Former Head of EPA Gina McCarthy
Gina McCarthy discusses what it was like to be in charge of 15,000 people at the EPA and shares why she remains hopeful about our nation and our world.
28:59
July 21, 2017
Jeff Biggers on Regenerative Cities and Sustainability in Appalachia
Appalachian’s director of sustainability, Dr. Lee Ball, welcomes celebrated author, journalist, historian and playwright Jeff Biggers to the studio for a discussion of the history of sustainability in Appalachia, what a regenerative Boone, North Carolina, could look like and Biggers’ multimedia theatrical piece “An Evening at the Ecopolis: Envisioning a Regenerative City.”
33:30
March 8, 2017
What does Social Justice have to do with Sustainability?
A Conversation with Dr. Lee Ball and Chief Diversity Officer Bindu Kolli Jayne
Without social justice and equity, can Appalachian State University, and the world, be sustainable? Hear what Bindu Kolli Jayne, chief diversity officer and associate vice chancellor for equity, diversity and compliance, shares with the university's director of sustainability.
33:37
Nov. 20, 2015

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