Discover(ing) Sustainability

As part of UNH’s Spring 2009 Sustainability Speaker Series, today we are very lucky and excited to have Dennis Meadows on campus.  He will be speaking at 4 PM in 240 DeMeritt Hall on “Four Conceptual Mistakes that Block New Policies for Sustainability.” Dr. Meadows has written or co-authored 10 books on systems, futures, and educational [...]

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An Agricultural Census report released earlier this month revealed some very encouraging trends in New Hampshire farming. According to the USDA National Agriculture Statistics Service (NASS), the value of organic agricultural sales in NH totaled $16.283 million in 2007, up from $1.154 million in 2002! The good news about NH farms doesn’t stop there. During [...]

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If you’re part of the growing number of people who use Facebook to do everything from connect with friends to add fun items to your social calendar, you’re in luck:  sustainability at UNH now has a Facebook group! It’s called SustainableYouNH – as in you play an important role in making UNH the model sustainable learning community it is today and [...]

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Last Saturday’s Winter Farmers’ Market in Exeter drew a huge crowd of customers seeking out local farm-grown foods. More than 1,100 people attended the February 10th market at the Congregational Church, organized by Seacoast Eat Local Even on an icy-cold February day, with farm fields under snow, local farmers, bakers and fishermen offered up an [...]

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UNH is participating along with 215 schools nationwide in a 10 week recycling and waste minimization competition, RecycleMania 2009. The competition started January 18th and will go until March 28th. UNH has already advanced from 91st in the first week to 75th in the second. Every week the amount of recyclables and solid waste that [...]

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UNH has added yet another clean-fuel vehicle to its fleet, this one an electric truck used by UNH Housing.  The Miles electric truck can travel at speeds up to 25 miles per hour — perfect for Housing’s 10-20 daily trips around campus — and for up to 60 miles before a battery recharge. And, as [...]

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In today’s tough economic times, students have to do everything they can to stand out – for future employers, graduate school programs, fellowships, you name it. As as UNH’s own Dr. Ross Gittell of the UNH Whittemore School of Business and Economics has shown with recent research, “green industry” jobs make up 3.2% of New Hampshire’s workforce — and could grow with [...]

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Wondering how banana peels and takeout coffee cups will become a major energy source for UNH? Check out David Brooks’s story about ECOline in yesterday’s Nashua Telegraph. It’s an in-depth look at the project that doesn’t flinch from the chemistry involved in turning trash into treasure. Written by Beth.

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