Discover(ing) Sustainability

Trying to describe to people what sustainability entails, why UNH organizes everything it does around sustainability, and what role our office plays in this can be complicated — to say the least. But Tom Kelly — UNH’s chief sustainability officer and the founding director of our office — does a great job explaining sustainability at [...]

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I’m sure that by now, many of you have heard of the recent problems faced by beekeepers and farmers involving large populations of dead honeybees in America and around the world.  The cause, ”CCD” or colony collapse disorder is still not well understood though many factors seem to be implicated.   At our local beekeeping meeting [...]

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My husband Brent has been my enthusiastic partner in our car-free May experiment, so I thought I should give him an opportunity to share his experiences here. Unfortunately, his carpal tunnel syndrome has gotten so bad he can’t type at all, so he has to rely on me to translate his thoughts. Isn’t that what [...]

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Retrolutions Redux! The UNH team of business and engineering students that recently won 1st place in their task at the Waste-Management, Education and Research Consortium Environmental Design Contest in New Mexico last April has been named the “Innovation Rocks!” Award winner for May by the New Hampshire Division of Economic Development’s Business Resource Center. ”Innovation Rocks!” is sponsored by the Business [...]

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When my family agreed to stow the car for the month of May and rely on our feet, pedals, and public transportation, one of my hopes was that we would inspire others to do the same — if only for a week, a day, or a few trips during the summer. I’m proud to report [...]

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I’d heard about green roofs before, seen examples in photographs and places I’d traveled, and I knew they could be used to grow potted herbs and vegetables in urban locations, and that they helped with stormwater reduction and with reducing energy costs. But I didn’t realize the full range of benefits green roofs can provide [...]

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Friday’s Bike/Walk to Work Day breakfast at UNH was a rocking success, with about 70 alternative commuters stopping by the helmet-clad wildcat statue for a bagel and coffee (not so much coffee, actually — apparently the trip to campus had served its wake-up function and commuters simply needed to carbo-load). The weather cooperated and provided [...]

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t’s May 14, and my family is almost halfway through our month-long experiment to live life without the car. And contrary to the assumptions of sympathetic friends and colleagues, we’re not counting the days til we can buckle up and go for a drive. Rather, we’re fully in the groove of making do with a [...]

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Is it possible, even after getting one graduate degree and nearly finishing a second, to do your undergraduate experience all over again?  Because UNH has a new dual major in EcoGastronomy — the first of its kind anywhere in higher education in the U.S. — and I want in! I know what you’re saying.  ”Sara, you’re [...]

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The new journal Sustainability: The Journal of Record profiled UNH’s leadership in sustainability in its latest issue.  The writer, Kevin D. Blanchet, did a wonderfully engaging job of capturing sustainability at UNH — not an easy thing to do in 4 short pages!  You can read the entire profile here. And here’s a sneak peak: “Home to the oldest [...]

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