sustainability
A bioswale is an aesthetically pleasing green infrastructure option that captures rainwater and runoff that can also be used to create habitats for native species, birds, or other plants; they can also filter out pollutants as they capture water. (Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0)
George Washington University
California was recently flooded with extreme amounts of rainfall, which highlighted the state's struggle to adequately capture and manage the water.
SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry
Through the preparation of a traditional Chinese meal, this video explores the intersection and tension between the values of identity and culture, and the goals of sustainability and conservation.
Cherokee, North Carolina is part of the Blue Ridge Parkway and is home to the Great Smoky Mountains. This place is also known as the ancestral homelands of the ᎠᏂᎩᏚᏩᎩ, or Cherokee people. (Raylen Bark)
Indigenous Correspondents Program | Dartmouth College
This photo essay explores the ways that knowledge of Indigenous plant gathering, harvesting, maintenance, and sovereignty have been passed down by the generations and practiced by my family.
Breathing in the peace and stillness during our first evening in Antarctica. (Courtesy of Agam Dhingra)
Middlebury Institute of International Studies
Libby Mohn reflects on witnessing climate change firsthand in Antarctica and connecting it to her everyday life.
(Images from the picture book courtesy of Maria Zaharatos, Shelby Atherton, Ruby Walker)
The Middlebury Institute of International Studies
An inspiring and empowering story about a young girl in Ecuador on a journey to discover what communities across her country are doing to increase sustainability and combat plastic waste.
SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry
Changing trends in the dairy industry mean that smaller dairies on the East Coast are having a more difficult time competing with unsustainable megadairies in the Western United States.
Outreach and education manager at Arcadia Farm, Juan Pablo Echeverria, gives a tour of the sustainable agriculture non-profit. (Alyssa Landolfi)
George Washington University
In this photo essay, learn how one non-profit focused on sustainable agriculture is addressing the issue of food deserts in Washington D.C.
The Accokeek Foundation has managed 200 acres of Piscataway Park since 1957. (Jing-ning Hsu)
George Washington University
Our current global food system leaves billions of people underfed or overweight and contributes to one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions. Piscataway woman Anjela Barnes says it doesn't have to be this way.
(Karolina Grabowska/Pexels License)
SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry
In this audio story, SUNY-ESF student, Lisa Steinberg, discusses the intersection of sustainability and menstrual health.
Each basketball season, UConn's Office of Sustainability and UConn Athletics partner to host a Green Game Day at Gampel Pavilion to promote recycling and engage with the community. (Maggie Singman)
University of Connecticut
How the world of athletics can lead the charge in addressing climate change at the game day level and beyond.