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Topic: Sustainability

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  • Helping sustain and revitalize Guatemala’s indigenous culture
    Helping sustain and revitalize Guatemala’s indigenous culture
    March 24, 2014

    A professor’s longtime relationship with a Guatemalan town helps sustain and revitalize its indigenous culture.

  • Geology professors collect evidence of mass extinction in Central Asia
    Geology professors collect evidence of mass extinction in Central Asia
    Jan. 30, 2014

    Geologist Johnny Waters studies the relationship between climate change and changes in the ecosystem. As co-leader of a United Nations-sponsored research team, he and others have found evidence in Central Asia for catastrophic oceanographic events associated with climate change and a mass extinction that devastated tropical marine ecosystems 375 million years ago.

  • Generation on a Slackline
    Generation on a Slackline

    Discussing a diverse, global, digital information economy in motion - and Appalachian's role in it

    Dec. 5, 2013

    In their book “Generation on a Tightrope” (Jossey-Bass 2012), Dr. Arthur Levine and Dr. Diane Dean present challenges that educational institutions face in preparing this current generation of undergraduate students to understand and thrive in describe a diverse, global, digital information economy in motion. They join Provost Lori Gonzalez and Dean of Students JJ Brown to discuss Appalachian’s role in this challenge.

  • Maison Reciprocity: Design
    Maison Reciprocity: Design
    Oct. 31, 2013

    Team Reciprocity speaks about how their row house design is market-ready, energy-independent, adaptable, affordable, and a community-centric residential housing solution.

  • Veteran and Appalachian alumnus uses his love of farming as therapy
    Veteran and Appalachian alumnus uses his love of farming as therapy
    Aug. 1, 2013

    Local farmer and Appalachian alumnus Cory Bryk, a Marine veteran, finds healing in a new kind of mission: feeding the community.

  • Appalachian selected to compete in prestigious Solar Decathlon Europe 2014
    Appalachian selected to compete in prestigious Solar Decathlon Europe 2014
    Jan. 30, 2013

    Appalachian State University is one of only three U.S. universities selected to participate in the prestigious Solar Decathlon Europe 2014, an international competition inspired by the U.S. Solar Decathlon that challenges student teams to design and build an energy-independent solar house.

  • Professor earns award for water research
    Professor earns award for water research
    Dec. 11, 2012

    People might assume that water in the mountains is pristine, but the local headwaters are increasingly at risk from urbanization, according to Appalachian State University’s Dr. Chuanhui Gu. He is determining to what extent local streams are harmed by pollutants and other change.

  • Partnership benefits Appalachian and N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences
    Partnership benefits Appalachian and N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences
    Aug. 2, 2012

    Students recover fossils in Arizona to help the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences build its Triassic collection and understand our own state's geologic record.

  • UNC campuses gather to develop energy savings initiatives
    UNC campuses gather to develop energy savings initiatives
    July 13, 2012

    Sustainable energy expert Amory Lovins leads UNC institutions in a better understanding of how to reduce energy consumption on their campuses.

  • Appalachian Energy Summit 2012
    Appalachian Energy Summit 2012
    July 13, 2012

    The UNC system has taken numerous strides toward addressing a state mandate to reduce energy consumption 30 percent by 2015, but greater cultural change is needed, university officials said during presentations at the Appalachian Energy Summit held July 9-11, 2012 at Appalachian State University.

  • Energy Summit 2012 participant comments: Dr. Jamie Russell
    Energy Summit 2012 participant comments: Dr. Jamie Russell
    July 13, 2012

    The UNC system has taken numerous strides toward addressing a state mandate to reduce energy consumption 30 percent by 2015, but greater cultural change is needed, university officials said during presentations at the Appalachian Energy Summita> held July 9-11 at Appalachian State University.

  • Alternative energy and other measures help UNC system campuses reduce energy costs
    Alternative energy and other measures help UNC system campuses reduce energy costs
    July 12, 2012

    Wind energy, geothermal systems, photovoltaic systems and use of methane gas are just some of the ways UNC system campuses are reducing their energy costs.

  • Scientists, students and Quechua community partner to understand climate change
    Scientists, students and Quechua community partner to understand climate change
    June 28, 2012

    Every morning, 13-year old Nelson Crispin takes a short walk from his home at 13,800 feet through frosty fields to record climate data collected by instruments installed in the Cordillera Vilcanota mountain range in Peru.

  • Appalachian professor receives NIH grant to study cholera bacterium’s defense mechanism
    Appalachian professor receives NIH grant to study cholera bacterium’s defense mechanism
    Oct. 25, 2011

    The bacterium that causes cholera has been a bit of a mystery to scientists since it was first identified in the mid-1800s. Dr. Ece Karatan, an associate professor in Appalachian State University’s Department of Biology, hopes to unravel some of those mysteries, and in the process find ways to help mitigate the effects of the potentially deadly disease most common in Third World countries and areas with poor sanitation.

  • Appalachian students and children find artifacts
    Appalachian students and children find artifacts
    July 18, 2011

    Children who play on an athletics field at Appalachian State University’s Camp Broadstone in Valle Crucis may not realize the history that lies beneath their feet. This summer, university students in Appalachian’s archeology field school found a 4,000-year-old cooking hearth and a small vessel nearly as old about two feet underground.

  • A leader in sustainability education
    A leader in sustainability education
    April 6, 2011

    Appalachian State University has been a leader in sustainability education for more than 25 years.There are more than a dozen environmental academic program areas on campus.

  • Alternative Fall Break trips strive for carbon neutrality
    Alternative Fall Break trips strive for carbon neutrality
    Oct. 18, 2010

    In their commitments to sustainability, Appalachian State University students are focused on environmental service during Alternative Fall Break trips this month, while also striving to keep carbon emissions low.

  • Group studies indigenous activism in the Upper Amazon
    Group studies indigenous activism in the Upper Amazon
    Nov. 3, 2009

    This past summer, 16 students from Appalachian State University traveled to Ecuador to study indigenous activism and language in the Upper Amazon for three weeks. They came away with a greater appreciation of the impact of oil in the Amazon and its affect on the lives of the indigenous people.

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