Topic: Sustainability

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Thanks, Tourists! NC Wine Is Now A $2B Industry
WUNC 91.5
Oct. 1, 2017
North Carolina viticulture has blossomed into a $2 billion industry. It's got tourism to thank for the growth. A new Wine Quality Alliance program at Appalachian State University is beginning to distinguish high quality wines from around the state.
Honoring the Black-eyed Susan
Native perennial becomes the official flower of Appalachian State University
Sept. 28, 2017
Appalachian’s Board of Trustees endorse this native perennial as the official flower of the university.
From turtles to town hall: SECU Public Fellows Internship at ASU
EducationNC
Sept. 27, 2017
Jordan Boles entered ASU as a fully-supported ACCESS Scholar, became an employee at ASU’s Office of International Education and Development, and is now president of the Alpha Phi sorority chapter, to name just a few of her successes. Boles has made the most of her college experience—and the same can be said of her SECU Public Fellows Internship.
Appalachian’s Humanities Council Symposium ‘Sustaining Democracy: Existence, Persistence, Resistance’ Sept. 29
Sept. 19, 2017
The Humanities Council under the College of Arts and Sciences at Appalachian State University will present a symposium titled “Sustaining Democracy: Existence, Persistence, Resistance.” Admission is free and the event is open to the community.
Drs. Zach and Alisha Farris address conservation and health crises in Madagascar
Sept. 18, 2017
Research by Drs. Zach and Alisha Farris is sustaining ecosytems, improving animal and human health and providing learning opportunities. They are ‘living like they mean it.’
Dr. Eric Frauman keeps education ‘relevant, engaging and memorable’
Sept. 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
Sept. 9, 2017
Appalachian donates fresh produce to local organizations for residents in need.
RIEEE offers free offsets workshop Oct. 6
Sept. 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
Sept. 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).
Find Your Sustain Ability: Majora Carter “The Prophet of Local”
July 26, 2017
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.
Find Your Sustain Ability: Former Head of EPA Gina McCarthy
July 21, 2017
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.
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
There’s hope for declining honeybee populations thanks to Appalachian student and faculty research and special projects.
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.