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Digital Media Producer, Planet Forward
Monday, July 13, 2015
Sewanee: The University of the South's Executive Chef Rick Wright is leading a push to make dining halls healthier and more sustainable.
Tags: sustainable, food, Campus, health
Planet Forward
Thursday, February 09, 2017
Sewanee's office of Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability (ESS) is responsible for shepherding the University’s commitment to sustainable living on campus and the environmentally sound management and educational use of its 13,000 acre landb
Kevin Fouts unties a turtle trap to show a common snapping turtle to a group of high school students in July 2018. (Vanessa Moss/Sewanee)
Planet Forward Correspondent | Sewanee: The University of the South
Thursday, February 28, 2019
The coordinator for the Sewanee Headwaters Initiative, Kevin Fouts, shares insights about the connection between water management practices and their impacts.
Tags: biology, ecology, streams, waterways, watershed, pollutants, Biodiversity, pfcorrespondent
Sewanee's 13,000-acre campus, otherwise known as the "Domain." (Photo courtesy of the University of the South)
Sewanee: University of the South
Monday, February 13, 2017
A Q&A with Sewanee's Domain Manager, Nate Wilson, to learn more about Sewanee's land use decisions on our 13,000-acre campus.
Tags: conservation, forestry, land use, sewanee, interview, Biodiversity
Eco-Auto Club at University of the South
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
So long as you have the power of innovation, there is no such thing as junk. The Eco-Auto Club, a student organization at Sewanee (The University of The South), has devised a method for reducing the miles per gallon of beat-up, old "clunkers."
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Tags: transportation, education, car, colleges, eco, aerodynamics, modifications, sewanee, sustain sewanee, eco-auto club
Sewanee University
Thursday, March 07, 2019
Amigos del Mar educates youth about how pollution on the island of Tierra Bomba plays in the destruction of their essential marine ecosystems off the coast of mainland Cartagena.
Tags: pollution, tourism, Colombia, storyfest2019
Planet Forward
Thursday, August 25, 2011
In this week's webisode, we take a look at a video submitted to us by Sewanee’s Eco-Auto Club. The students set out to take a 1998 Ford Explorer with 231,000 miles and transform it into a more energy efficient "Eco Explorer" vehicle. Would you do...
Tags: Electric Vehicle, secretary chu, TED, sewanee, shai agassi, EcoCar
(Photograph courtesy Housing Sewanee.)
Sewanee: University of the South
Friday, March 03, 2017
I created a storymap on ArcGIS online to describe Housing Sewanee's new project, which will consist of seven nearly self-sustaining homes. The project's story and impact, however, extends far beyond the homes themselves.
Tags: sewanee, simple life, Solar Panels, heat pumps, green living, storyfest2017
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Planet Forward
Tuesday, December 06, 2016
Here you will find all of the pieces posted by the inaugural Planet Forward Correspondent team.
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Planet Forward
Monday, May 04, 2015
Tomorrow's leaders kicked off the Summit with their stories of why they're exploring innovations in food and agriculture and storytelling.