UNH UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY NEWSLETTER

Our newsletter highlights how sustainability principles and practices are being integrated throughout UNH's curriculum, operations, research, and engagement with local, state, regional, national, and international partners. Each issue we are share interesting "Did You Know?" facts, an easy-to-do "Tip of the Month," an inspiring "Profile in Sustainability" highlighting the work of UNH faculty, staff, and students, a "Calendar of Events," and much more. From our exciting work to the great work of others, if it's related to sustainability at UNH you'll hear about it from us!

Sign up for our newsletter!

Read older UOS newsletters via our newsletter archive!

	February/March 2010 Online or PDF Version "Tap in" to the UNH film and speaker series to learn more about the world of water. Read more... Profile in Sustainability: Be inspired! Learn about Mary Westfall, UNH Chaplain and adjunct professor in philophy . Read more... Other stories this issue: Help UNH win RecycleMania! Read more...
	November/December 2009 Online or PDF Version Unzip the possibilities: this fall UNH became host to one of the largest Zipcar fleets north of Boston! Read more... Profile in Sustainability: We didn't profile just one person this newsletter. We profiled FOUR. Learn about the UNH Energy Team. Read more... Other stories this issue: Dine with Moosewood Cookbook author Mollie Katzen! Read more...
	September/October 2009 Online or PDF Version Spending so much on healthcare guarantees so little - both in terms of healthy people and a healthy bottomline. Learn how Healthy UNH is helping UNH counter these trends - and aiming to make us the healthiest university by 2020. Read more... Profile in Sustainability: She's not leaving us. She's NOT! OK, so perhaps we're in denial. Learn why our loss of former UOS staffer Joyce Massicotte is the UNH graduate program in Resource Administration & Management's gain - and why this new grad student is excited about "going green" with the WildCats! Read more... Other stories this issue: Direct deposits go paperless! Read more...
	Summer 2009 Online or PDF Version A historic US presidential election. A global financial crisis. The ongoing worldwide challenges of poverty, hunger, war, climate change, and more. The fall of 2008 was the perfect time to open Smith Hall’s new Peace Gallery. Learn more about how the gallery came to be, what it teaches us all, and why art is so crucial to sustainability. Read more... Profile in Sustainability: Looking to hire a smart, hard working and passionate employee who knows a thing or two (or three... or four...) about climate action planning to climate change research? Look no further then recent graduate Rebecca Lehr - a UNH alum to watch! Read more... Other stories this issue: Download the Sustainability Speaker Series podcasts! Read more...
	April/May 2009 Online or PDF Version Over 60 authors. More than five dozen case studies. Nearly 300 pages. This is what it took to write the story of UNH’s sustainability journey. So you can imagine the energy, creativity and passion that have gone into the journey itself. Learn about "The Sustainable Learning Community: One University's Journey to the Future," out this spring from the University Press of New England. Read more... Profile in Sustainability: Professor. Clinician. Researcher. Sustainable food advocate. Wife, mother and grandmother. Learn why Dr. Joanne Burke is one of the hardest working people we know -- and why she finds it so "rewarding to be playing a role in advancing food security and sustainability." Read more... Other stories this issue: UNH-RENU needs YOU! Read more...
	February/March 2009 Online or PDF Version What do you get when you mix talented students, organizations advancing sustainability, and innovative learning that exposes students to sustainability via readings, podcasts, films, speakers, blogging, and more? You get UNH's new Sustainability Internship Program (SIP), which launches this semester. Read more... Profile in Sustainability: Growing up just a few miles from the proposed nuclear waste storage site at Yucca Mountain and doing his undergraduate studies in the ever-expanding Las Vegas, David Gillum has cared about protecting the environment and human health from a young age. Learn how as assistant director of UNH's Office of Environmental Health & Safety he puts his passion for sustainability to work. Read more... Other stories this issue: Help UNH win RecycleMania! Read more...
	November/December 2008 Online or PDF Version The name says it all. UNH's in-development climate action plan is appropriately named "WildCAP" -- as in the entire university community working together to put a "cap" on the greenhouse gas emissions associated with campus activities. Learn how over the course of the next year the university's Energy Task Force will be collaboring with the university community to develop emissions targets, timelines, and strategies that will be part of WildCAP. Read more... Profile in Sustainability: Supporting students so that they can challenge themselves to engage in areas like diversity, citizenship, academics, and healthy living -- McLaughlin Hall Director Tiffany Rowin takes this mission of UNH Residential Life to heart. Read more... Other stories this issue: Don't forget to powerdown over Thanksgiving and winter breaks! Read more...
	September/October 2008 Online or PDF Version Eco-what? Dig in to our latest newsletter and savor learning about UNH's ground-breaking new Dual Major in EcoGastronomy for undergraduates -- the first of its kind in higher education in the nation. Read more... Profile in Sustainability: Talk about being the change you wish to see in the world. Learn how UNH undergraduate Erin Thesing, president of the student group that helps run UNH's annual Student Energy Waste Watch Challenge, turns daily choices into radical change. Read more... Other stories this issue: It's all local gourmet food, all day: September 24th is the 4th Annual Local Harvest Feast! Read more...
	Summer 2008 Online or PDF Version If “all the world’s a stage,” as Shakespeare once wrote, then what better way to teach the next generation about sustainability than through interactive youth theatre? The UNH Department of Theatre & Dance will be doing just that as it kicks off its 38th summer season of the famous Little Red Wagon tour. Read more... Profile in Sustainability: Waste not, want not. Learn why environmental engineer, advocate for the planet, and soon-to-be mom Dr. Jenna Jambeck is educating UNH students and the public on how integrated waste management can help make the earth a better place. Read more... Other stories this issue: UNH faculty and staff -- don't forget to sign up your office or department for a FREE "Green Your Office" workshop, being offered through July! Read more...
	April/May 2008 Online or PDF Version Under the mantra “Local - Sustainable - Fresh,” UNH Hospitality Services (UHS) is revamping the UNH Dairy Bar to feature local foods, a nutritious and delicious menu, and sustainable operations. From local foods to energy efficient appliances to compostable to-go containers, the new Dairy Bar will feature sustainability at its most delicious. Read more... Profile in Sustainability: Biodiesel buses and compressed natural gas shuttles, a revamped Main Street and - coming soon! - an expanded train and bus intermodal transportation facility: if it's transportation-related at UNH, you can bet Stephen Pesci has been involved. Learn why this self-proclaimed "explorer, citizen and advocate" continues to help transport UNH sustainability to new heights. Read more... Other stories this issue: Discover sustainability through our new blog! Read more...
	February/March 2008 Online or PDF Version At UNH, our buildings are not just squeaky clean but squeaky “green” clean. Learn how UNH Facilities Housekeeping and UNICCO ensure a healthy learning and working environment for students, faculty, staff, and building service workers with their respective green cleaning efforts. Read more... Profile in Sustainability: Powered by the "beauty and hope that blooms from the people around" her, UNH Senior Elizabeth Joseph is involved in everything from the Organic Garden Club to UNH-RENU (Recycling Everything New/ Used). Learn why we find beauty and hope blooming brightest in Liz herself. Read more... Other stories this issue: New Year, New Look for the UOS Brochure! Read more...