Topic: Sustainability

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Podcast Preview: Chef, author and food justice advocate Bryant Terry talks (vegan) turkey
Nov. 9, 2016
Chef and activist Bryant Terry gets pragmatic about healthy eating and why access to healthy, affordable food is a social justice issue we all need to understand.
Faculty, student researchers at Appalachian State University and UNC Asheville research threatened plant species
Nov. 1, 2016
The plant, called Spiraea virginiana, has been on the federal government’s list of threatened species since 1990. It dwells solely in white water, high-gradient streams in drainage from the Tennessee, Cumberland and New rivers in North Carolina.
Sustainable Food Week kicks off with National Food Day and public lecture Oct. 24
Oct. 14, 2016
Dr. Gary Paul Nabhan is an internationally celebrated nature writer, agrarian activist and ethnobiologist whose work focuses on conserving the links between biodiversity and cultural diversity. His talk is the public keynote of Sustainable Food Week.
Appalachian State University takes pledge as healthy campus partner
Oct. 14, 2016
Appalachian joins a growing list of institutions and organizations working to improve the health of campus communities by taking the American College Health Association’s Healthy Campus Pledge.
From General Education geography class to NOAA scholarship
A first-year course sparks Eric Burton’s imagination, leads to research opportunities in Peru and beyond
Oct. 7, 2016
His imagination sparked, Eric Burton majors in geography, conducts research in Peru and lands a NOAA scholarship – in large part because of a first-year General Education course.
Health, Wellness and Safety Week held Aug. 29 – Sept. 1 at Appalachian
Aug. 30, 2016
The primary purpose of Heath, Wellness and Safety Week is to highlight campus resources available to the university’s students.
Appalachian community partners are doing ‘business for good’
Aug. 26, 2016
Do business for good. Area speakers share sustainable business practice theories and applications in the High Country.
Walker College of Business hosts Business for Good, promotes responsible economic, social and natural resource management
Aug. 26, 2016
Do business for good. Speakers share sustainable business practice theories and applications in the High Country and the world.
Wilson Scholars – service and sustainability education in Costa Rica
Aug. 24, 2016
Learn about the 2016 Wilson Scholars’ upcoming sustainability education trip to Costa Rica’s Monteverde Institute.
Racing the Sun
An Appalachian team seeks to change the future of transportation with a solar race car
Aug. 17, 2016
Take a dozen Appalachian students, three passionate faculty and an institutional commitment to sustainability and you get a race car powered by the sun that wins third place in a three-day track race and places sixth in a cross-country race lasting eight days and nearly 2,000 miles. You get innovations in sustainable technology. And, you get a roadmap to the car of the future.
Racing the Sun: History of Apperion
Aug. 17, 2016
How does a group of students end up building a solar car and entering it in an international, collegiate competition? It began with Dan Blakeley, an Army Ranger who was looking to the future, and who would become the leader of Team Sunergy. Inspired to build a solar car by his sustainable transportation instructor, Blakeley found funding and academic support to convert a golf cart from gas to solar power, build a race car prototype, and learn from everyone and every opportunity he could find.
Racing the Sun: The Competition
Aug. 17, 2016
What is this competition, anyway? An international event that involves designing, building and racing solar vehicles, the competition is two-fold. It is comprised of the Formula Sun Grand Prix (FSGP) and the American Solar Challenge (ASC).
Racing the Sun: The Team
Aug. 17, 2016
Meet the Sunergy solar vehicle team led by student leader and veteran Dan Blakeley — leading, taking charge, delegating and all actively learning.
Racing the Sun: A Vision for the Future
Aug. 17, 2016
Dream along with Appalachian’s Team Sunergy about a cruiser class solar vehicle, the next generation for sustainable transportation.
See how App State makes tracks at Formula Sun Grand Prix
Meet the hearts and minds that lead Team Sunergy and learn how Appalachian State University’s solar team found a place on the podium at the Formula Sun Grand Prix.
Aug. 17, 2016
Why did we go? To build a better transportation solution. How did we place third? Sheer Mountaineer grit. Join the team, experience scrutineering, on-track qualifying and pit-stop drama. Watch the video here and think solar.
Photos of Appalachian’s Apperion, ASC/FSGP sun-racing
Aug. 15, 2016
Share the road with Team Sunergy, Appalachian State University’s solar vehicle team, as it traverses from Brecksville, Ohio, to Hot Springs, South Dakota – 1,975 miles of sun racing, wind-whistling, solar battery charging, slick-road stopping, seven-state crossing, auto-history making, nine national park honoring thrills, spills and sheer Mountaineer grit.
Apperion and Team Sunergy under the microscope at 2016 American Solar Challenge
Aug. 10, 2016
For a week before and during the 2016 American Solar Challenge at the Pittsburgh International Race Complex in Wampum, Pennsylvania, Appalachian’s solar vehicle underwent scrutineering – detailed inspections and performance trials. Apperion passed all scrutineering tests in time to begin the first day of track racing. Not all vehicles did. Some crashed during slalom testing and spent valuable time repairing; some had difficulty in the wet road brake testing; others had driver egress and communications tech challenges.
On the track at 2016 American Solar Challenge
Aug. 10, 2016
For a week before and during the 2016 American Solar Challenge at the Pittsburgh International Race Complex in Wampum, Pennsylvania, Appalachian’s solar vehicle drivers weaved between traffic cones in slalom handling tests, clocked times, kidded to fast stops in wet road brake tests, and jumped from their vehicles in quick egress tests; crews demonstrated solar array charging capacity, battery load bearing and capacity; and dozens of details, including driver registration, insurance and support vehicle graphics, were scrutinized or, using track vernacular, “scrutineered.” And, after hours, there was laundry to be done.