Sustainability
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The Future of Forestland Ownership is Female
Forestry has long been a male-dominated field, but an increasing number of women are beginning to inherit their husbands’, fathers’ and families’ lands. Due to higher life expectancies, these women are often thrown into land ownership without any prior knowledge or education of forest management. As a result, these forests…
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Rain Gardens: How You Can Conserve Water in Your Own Backyard
Water pollution is just one of many environmental concerns affecting the state of Georgia. Harmful chemicals and toxic substances find their way into our lakes, streams, and oceans, jeopardizing the health of ecosystems around the state as well as human health. Even though this seems like a daunting issue, an…
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New E-Vehicle Charging Stations Unveiled at Classic Center: Bringing Modernity to a Historic City
The Classic Center in Athens, Georgia, unveiled three new charging stations this Wednesday for e-vehicle owners to take advantage of while driving through downtown. Back in 2015, an e-vehicle charging station was installed on Thomas Street. Now, the Classic Center has installed three more charging stations in the parking lot in…
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Getting Happier with Horticulture: The Healthy Benefits of Gardening
From planting gardens to baking bread, the COVID-19 lockdown took some interesting turns in the name of boredom. Now, not only are plants continuing to flourish from our nation’s new interest in gardening, people have also begun witnessing the positive changes horticulture has to offer for mental health. According…
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Sustainable Solution for Green Pollution: How Nonnative Privet Impacts Georgia
Planted in 1929, the iconic hedges that surround Dooley Field at Sanford Stadium are a symbol of the University of Georgia. But these dark green, manicured shrubs aren’t Georgian at all. They’re Chinese privet, a semi-evergreen, thick shrub that swallows forests and threatens native species. Invasive plants are nonnative plants…
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Morgan County High School Teacher Implements Sustainability into Agriculture Curriculum
Rachel Kinsaul is currently in her sixth year of teaching agriculture classes at Morgan County High School. She chooses to implement sustainable agriculture into her curriculum in multiple ways to benefit different types of learners, with a strong focus on experiential learning. One way Kinsaul does this is by taking…
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How Changing Your Diet Could Fight Climate Change
Julia Hauser became vegetarian when she first started college. Now, she thinks climate change is going to push more people to become vegetarian, too. Hauser is an environmental engineering major and a sustainability ambassador at the University of Georgia. She believes many others will join her in becoming vegetarian…
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The Trouble With T-Shirts: Fast Fashion, Greek Life and What’s Next
Shannon Marsh, a senior fashion merchandising major, looks down at her drawer stuffed with sorority T-shirts. Since joining Delta Gamma in 2018, she has collected 24 shirts, wearing about eight of them regularly, yet she can’t bring herself to part with them. The rainbow collection of shirts ranges in shades…
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Reign Streiter: Man On The Billboards Gives Back
When he got into real estate sales in the 2000s, Streiter used sports radio and full-page newspaper ads to attract customers, he said. Then, he devised a method to get discount prices on billboards by allowing the billboard company to randomly place his advertisements on billboards that were temporarily empty. …
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Saving The Environment One Person At A Time: How Changing Individual Habits Creates Sustainable Change
A morning alarm rings through a bedroom in an apartment just off the campus of the University of Georgia. Logen Roberts, a senior at UGA, wakes up and wanders into her bathroom, turns on the tap, and begins brushing her teeth. She washes her face, gets dressed and heads out…