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"If you go down to Harrison spring, 70 percent of the time it's going to show up as either fecal or E. coli positive," says Ben Beavers, General Manager of the Sewanee Utility District (SUD).
Sewanee: The University of the South
Sunday, March 03, 2019
Faced with the daunting reality of water inaccessibility in rural Tennessee, Sewanee senior Haley Tucker turns to storytelling as a solution.
Tags: Water, sustainability, storytelling
Planet Forward
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Congratulations to our 2018-2019 team of Planet Forward Correspondents! Read below to learn more about the exceptional team of students selected, and be sure to click through to see their full profiles:
Planet Forward Correspondent | Sewanee: The University of the South
Friday, March 09, 2018
Undergraduate student Chris Hornsby ('19) studies black soldier fly larvae as a possible means of closed-loop waste processing and livestock feeding at Sewanee's University Farm.
Tags: Food Waste, food waste prevention, education, livestock, agriculture, Urban, storyfest2018
(Photo by Sven-Olof Lindblad)
Founding Director, Planet Forward
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
We are beyond excited to share the outstanding finalists for Storyfest 2019. They hail from 15 different schools, from all across the country. Will your school be a winner?
Tags: storyfest2019
Planet Forward Correspondent | Sewanee: The University of the South
Friday, March 09, 2018
Researchers from Sewanee and the University of Georgia test wetlands as a means to treat wastewater in the face of a water-scarce future.
Tags: Water, clean water, wastewater, water scarcity, Urban design, storyfest2018
From left: Alex Rubenstein, Navya Pothamsetty, Shandra Furtado, Ashley Gallagher, Katherine Baker, Sven Lindblad, Frank Sesno, Vanessa Moss, Emily Arnold and Dr. Imani M. Cheers.
Planet Forward
Saturday, April 07, 2018
Winners will travel to Alaska, courtesy of Alaska Airlines, to travel with Lindblad Expeditions aboard the National Geographic Sea Lion this June.
Tags: Storyfest 2018, storyfest winner, Competition, Alaska
Food waste from Sewanee dining halls turns into feed for chickens and fish, which in turn becomes food for the students at Sewanee, all thanks to larvae.
Sewanee: University of the South
Monday, May 01, 2017
Sewanee student Chris Hornsby explains his blueprint for the creation of self-sustaining and equitable tribal communities. And it all begins with larvae.
Tags: Black soldier flies, tribalism, food, education, Green Communities
GWU School of Media and Public Affairs
Monday, May 05, 2014
Tara Sonenshine announces the Planet Forward University Consortium and the launch of Feeding the Planet Year 2.
Tags: feeding the planet
Planet Forward
Friday, March 31, 2017
A Q&A with our finalists in the Right Brain category.
Tags: storyfest2017
Dr. Stephen Carmody founded the Native Cultigen Project at Sewanee: The University of the South. (Photo courtesy Stephen Carmody)
Sewanee: University of the South
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
By understanding agricultural practices of those indigenous to this region, the Native Cultigen Project may be able to ignite a new wave of sustainable agriculture – one that looks to the past for solutions for the future.