Discover(ing) Sustainability

View Album Get your own 60,000-plus riders getting on and off in Durham this year. 2.5 million private vehicle trips prevented. 10,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions avoided. These are just some of the numbers associated with the rail station on campus — now the UNH-Durham Transit Center after its recent renovation and expansion is complete. [...]

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Roasted butternut squash and free-range chicken, Tuscan curd pizza and garden vegetable soup, apple crisp and pumpkin cheesecake…Yes, I ate all of this and more at this year’s Local Harvest Feast. I was one of the lucky ones who got to sample both lunch and dinner at this year’s three-meal event, and sample I did! [...]

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In yet another example of UNH’s sustainability efforts becoming our worst-kept secret, the Sustainable Endowments Institute today announced that UNH is one of just 15 universities in the U.S. or Canada to get the top grade — an A-minus — in its College Sustainability Report Card 2009. Here’s my press release on the subject, and [...]

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Forgot to pick up a card? No time to bake a cake? No worries — World Carfree Day snuck up on me, too, and I’m about as carfree as they come. Because I’m a long-ago convert to the Church of the Holy Bicycle, I biked to work today out of habit, not celebration, and I [...]

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Pardon the corny headline (the pun never stops!), but you must go check out the photos of the new corn maze at Sherman Farm in East Conway, on the N.H.- Maine border. Go ‘Cats! Beat Maine! Is this sustainable agriculture? In fact, my guess is that such “agri-tainment” is one way this farm (and others) [...]

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Fall is in the air and pumpkins are out of the field so it must be time for the UNH Local Harvest Feast! Wednesday, September 24 marks the 4th annual Local Harvest event, a partnership between UNH Dining, the Office of Sustainability, local farmers and food producers. This year we’ve expanded from a single meal [...]

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If I got a smidgeon of artistic talent — instead of a dime, say — for every time someone asks our office why we include culture in our conception of sustainability, perhaps I would have been able to submit a piece for the new exhibit opening next week at the UNH Museum in Dimond Library. “In [...]

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A quick follow-up to yesterday’s post to point folks to New England Cable News’s excellent coverage of yesterday’s Inauguration 2.0. Reporter Lauren Collins, who’s no stranger to UNH or our sustainability initiatives, did a fabulous job of giving context to Huddleston’s decision to go low-key, low-cost, and low-carbon. Take a look! Written by Beth.

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Today, UNH President Mark W. Huddleston walked the talk (and rocked the Granite State Room) with Inauguration 2.0, his installation as UNH’s 19th president. And while universities generally embrace (indeed, perpetuate) pomp and ceremony around occasions like new presidents, Huddleston — evoking fiscal responsibility and sustainable resourcefulness — bucked the trend with a decidedly low-key [...]

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In today’s “Earth Matter’s” column at Seacoastonline.com you’ll find a great piece written by Deborah McDermott about UNH’s sustainable learning community model. Tom Kelly, UNH’s chief sustainability officer, and I spent a morning chatting with Deborah recently about sustainability at UNH.  Her enthusiasm for the topic was obvious, and she asked wonderfully thought-provoking questions. It’s a great read — [...]

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