Discover(ing) Sustainability

Mollie Katzen, award winning author of the famed Moosewood Cookbook, is coming to the UNH campus on November 20th & 21st for a series of exciting events, including two Gourmet Dinners with UNH Hospitality Management students and a campus lunch cooking session with UNH Dining. Friday November 20th, 11:00am- 1:30pm, Great Chefs Lunch Event with [...]

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For those who have not yet heard the exciting news, a colorful new mural is being introduced to the Durham community this Saturday at 11:00 am. The mural is located off Main Street in the alleyway between Outback/Hayden Sports and Durham House of Pizza (DHOP). Students of the Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC) and Durham [...]

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Regular readers of this blog (you know who you are, Mom) know that I’m a bit of a bicycling freak. So it should be no surprise that this story from the New York Times college admissions blog, called “The Choice,” caught my eye. It’s about how Alfred University in upstate New York conducts some of [...]

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If there wasn’t still so much left to do, perhaps we’d get tired of tooting our own horn. But as the challenges we face on campus, in our state, and around the globe keep growing, we’re happy to take a few minutes and celebrate all UNH has accomplished to advance sustainability – and then get [...]

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By now, most people have heard of a carbon footprint, the estimate of an individual or group’s greenhouse gas emissions. But what about a broader tool?  One for measuring our overall impact on the global environment from our lifestyle choices such as what we eat, where we live and how we travel? Ah hah! Allow [...]

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Who wrote the book of sustainability? We did! OK, not me (I wrote about writing the book of sustainability), but 60 esteemed members of the UNH community contributed to “The Sustainable Learning Community: One University’s Journey to the Future,” which presents sustainability at UNH through lively case studies and thoughtful essays. Many of the authors [...]

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Its October 1st and time to start thinking about how you can reduce your energy usage in your dorm room, apartment, or off-campus housing.  The 2009 Energy Waste Watch Challenge begins today!  For the month of October, students will compete to see which area of dorms can reduce their per capita electricity usage the most [...]

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