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How Can We Best Equip Our Students to Become Change Agents?
Environmental educators face increasing pressure to provide students with the education, tools and opportunities to overcome the looming threat of climate change. While many outsiders may view this as a…
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State & Federal Relationships in Environmental Protection
Good afternoon! For those of you whom I don’t know, I am Stan Meiburg, Director of Graduate Studies in Sustainability at Wake Forest. It is my pleasure to welcome you to the University this…
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Why Sustainability is Important in Environmental Education
The following remarks were delivered by Dr. Stan Meiburg, Director, Graduate Programs in Sustainability on October 22, 2019, at the opening session of the Water Resource Economics Conference entitled “Southeast Waters: Wading Into…
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Remarkable Networks: Survival of the Fittest Community
The 2019 Sustainability Graduate Programs Student Showcase Jay Lanier of Interface delivered the keynote address for the 2019 Sustainability Graduate Programs Student Showcase held at The Graduate School at Brookstown Inn. The event…
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The Air You Breathe: San Antonio’s Air Quality & Helping Kids with Asthma
Chrissie Murnin interviews guests from San Antonio’s Metropolitan Health District on the KONO 101.1 Public Affairs Show. Wendell Hardin, WFU Sustainability Graduate Program Alumnus, is the Ozone Attainment Program Manager and Cara Hausler…
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Former Administrators Discuss the Future of the EPA
Where to go from here? Stan Meiburg, Director of the Wake Forest Sustainability Graduate Programs and former Deputy Administrator for the EPA, discusses the agency and where it is headed…
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Changing Climate, Constant Faith
The Easter season coincides with Earth Day.In reflecting on this, I found myself contemplating the story of Dives and Lazarus, from Luke 16:19-31. IT’S A FAMILIAR STORY. Dives is a generic name…
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The Most Valuable Outcome of Human Centered Designis the Mindset
A Student Reflection MY JOURNEY IN SUS 706 CAN BE SUMMARIZED BY THE TERM CONNECTIVITY. Prior to SUS 706, I had never heard of Human Centered Design (HCD). My knowledge of Design Thinking was…
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Purpose At Work: How Wrangler is Creating the Next Generation of Sustainable Fashion
The global fashion industry has a large environmental footprint. In fact, it’s responsible for 8% of all greenhouse gas emissions and nearly 80 billion metric tons of water per year. There are over 8,000…
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Three Minute Thesis: People’s Choice Award Winner Norman Fraley
The 19th Annual Graduate Student and Postdoc Research Day was held on March 22, 2019, at Biotech Place, Auditorium & Atrium on the Bowman Gray Campus. Norman Fraley won the People’s…