by Sydney Golding | Aug 27, 2021 | Academics, ASG, Bicycles, Campus Resource, Commuters, Consumption, Food, Green Living, Higher Education, Office for Sustainability, Recycling, Sustainable Purchasing, Transportation, Waste, Water
The start of a new academic year always brings about a revived sense of excitement and anticipation. If you’re an incoming freshman, this is the start of a new way of life – full of newfound freedoms and the power to become your best self. The Office for...
by Julia Nall | Dec 2, 2019 | Academics, Uncategorized
Throughout December, the Office for Sustainability is focusing on the theme of “giving.” The holidays are a time for family and celebration, but for some, it’s not-so-merry. There are people in our own community who struggle to get by, to feed their families,...
by sustain | Jan 27, 2017 | Academics, Capstone Opportunities, Internships
Many of you are considering a meaningful way to “engage in community service, research, or other relevant work” and fulfill your capstone requirement. As you do so, please consider becoming a mentor for the Students Involved in Sustaining Their Arkansas...
by | Sep 16, 2016 | Academics, Capstone Opportunities, Events, Internships
The Homegrown Music Festival takes place in late July at Byrd’s Adventure Center on the Mulberry River in Ozark, Arkansas. Homegrown is focused on bringing music from near and far to an audience in a responsible way. Our goal is to completely eliminate single...
by | Jun 24, 2016 | Academics, Climate, Features, Green Jobs, Social Systems
As someone who works in the field of sustainability, I am occasionally asked how issues of social justice and inequality have anything to do with sustainability or the environment. Since most of us have been taught to compartmentalize the various “issues”...
by Marty Matlock | Feb 17, 2016 | AASHE, Academics, Higher Education
In March 2015 the National Association of Scholars published a report calling sustainability “higher education’s new fundamentalism.”¹ George F. Will, opinion writer for the Washington Post, picked up on this theme in an article in April, 2015 titled “Sustainability...
