Topic: Sustainability

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Dr. Eric Frauman keeps education ‘relevant, engaging and memorable’
Sep. 14, 2017
Appalachian State University’s Dr. Eric Frauman engages recreation management students with literature and encourages them to be informed and affect change.
From Farm to Table
Appalachian donates fresh produce to local organizations for residents in need
Sep. 9, 2017
Thanks to an idea from alumna Lindsey Giglio ’16, all excess food harvested at the university’s Blackburn Vannoy Teaching and Research Farm and in the campus gardens was collected and donated to families in need across the High Country.
RIEEE offers free offsets workshop Oct. 6
Sep. 7, 2017
Appalachian State University’s Research Institute for Environment, Energy, and Economics (RIEEE) is hosting a daylong workshop on the future of carbon offsets and carbon markets in the southeastern United States.
From Farm to Table
Sep. 6, 2017
Appalachian State University’s Goodnight Family Department of Sustainable Development has forged a partnership with Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture (BRWIA) to donate excess food harvested at the university’s Blackburn Vannoy Teaching and Research Farm and campus gardens to families in need.
Living like you mean it
Meet some Mountaineers who are living intentional lives, and making a difference for others
Aug. 4, 2017
Meet some Mountaineers who are living intentional lives, and making a difference for others.
Registration now open for Appalachian Energy Center workshops scheduled between Aug. 11 and Sept. 29
Aug. 3, 2017
The Appalachian Energy Center is a source of up-to-date information related to renewable energy, building science and energy efficiency. The workshops are held in various locations in and around Boone and provide continuing education credits for architects, engineers, attorneys and NABCEP professionals.
Visual history archive with 55,000 testimonies of genocide survivors and witnesses will be accessible this fall through Appalachian’s Belk Library and Information Commons
Aug. 2, 2017
This fall semester, Appalachian State University will become one of 79 sites to provide full access to the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive. The archive contains 55,000 testimonies of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust, the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda (1994), the Nanjing Massacre (1937), the Guatemalan Genocide (1978-1996), the Armenian Genocide (1915-1923) and the Cambodian Genocide (1975-1979).
Urban revitalizationist Majora Carter champions ‘people energy’ at Appalachian Energy Summit
July 13, 2017
In her address at the 2017 Appalachian Energy Summit, Majora Carter suggested her work in urban revitalization befitted a summit on energy. She spoke about the energy of people – which she called “an incredibly powerful, renewable resource.”
Saving the bees
Appalachian student and faculty researchers seek to recover declining honeybee population
July 13, 2017
Consider this fact from the U.S. Department of Agriculture: More than $15 billion in U.S. agricultural production depends on the health and well-being of honeybees. At Appalachian State University, students and faculty are developing research and special projects to help the recovery of bee populations and using campus space to promote hive activity.
Gina McCarthy, former head of EPA, delivers a rousing, humorous and inspiring keynote during Appalachian Energy Summit
July 11, 2017
In her keynote address at the 2017 Appalachian Energy Summit, former head of the EPA Gina McCarthy cautioned against complacency and despair, calling on grass roots activists to address environmental issues with renewed vigor, especially around clean energy and climate change.
Appalachian professors practice what they teach, operate their home at net positive energy use with solar panels
July 11, 2017
Drs. Jim and Jennifer Westerman, both professors at Appalachian State University, made a decision that has saved the equivalent of 276 trees and avoided 10,624 pounds of CO2 emissions so far this calendar year: having 50 solar panels installed on their 1972 home.
Photos from industrial design's observational beehive project
July 11, 2017
Three Appalachian State University industrial design majors – Ginny Stern ’15, Cary Cook ’16 and senior Eric Antolic – researched and designed an observational beehive that has become a hit for N.C.-based company Bee Downtown.
Appalachian State solar vehicle places second in international track race
July 9, 2017
Solar-powered Appalachian’s Team Sunergy took second place at the 2017 Formula Sun Grand Prix after hundreds of hours of preparation and three days of intense strategy and track racing. The annual race, which took place this year on the Circuit of The Americas track in Austin, Texas, is an international collegiate endurance competition that sets the standards for and tests the limits of solar vehicle technology.
2017 Appalachian Energy Summit provides students opportunities to network, exchange ideas and promote their work
July 7, 2017
Student attendees at 2017 Appalachian Energy Summit share ideas and network.
The new look of Apperion – Appalachian's 2017 Solar Vehicle
June 30, 2017
Team Sunergy’s new “cruiser class” car for 2018 is in the design concept phase. Its development is informed by data and feedback the team has gathered and compiled from the three competitions in which Apperion has raced.
Runnin’ on Shine
Team Sunergy competes in the Formula Sun Grand Prix July 3-9
June 30, 2017
Solar-powered Appalachian State University’s Team Sunergy took second place at the 2017 Formula Sun Grand Prix after thousands of hours of preparation and three days of intense strategy and track racing.
Department of Mathematical Sciences hosts workshop on Sustainable Energy Consumption
June 28, 2017
During the month of June, the Department of Mathematical Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences at Appalachian State University welcomed faculty from around the world to Reconnect, a conference designed to evaluate mathematical and computational tools for energy efficiency and reliability of data centers.
A Sense of Duty to Teach Climate Change
The New York Times
June 28, 2017
“Cooking creates an approachable platform to teach basic thermodynamic concepts. Everyone is interested in why a pizza stone results in a crispier pizza crust! Once they understand these concepts, the energy balance of the climate system is easy to understand.”

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