Sustainablity

Jeff Biggers

Appalachian’s Sustainable Development Department to host author Jeff Biggers Feb. 17
Feb 9, 2017

The Goodnight Family Department of Sustainable Development at Appalachian State University welcomes noted author, performer and educator Jeff Biggers ...

Dr. Lee Ball

Ball named director of sustainability at Appalachian
Dec 12, 2016

Following a national search, Dr. Lee F. Ball Jr. has been named director of sustainability at Appalachian State University. Ball has held the position...

Dinesh Paudel

Dispatch From Nepal: The Disaster Didn't End When the Earth Stopped Shaking [truth-out.org]
Nov 30, 2016

Assistant Professor of Sustainable Development Dinesh Paudel and Gregory Reck, professor of anthropology, explore Nepal's recovery after the 2015 eart...

Wind turbine at Allegheny High School

Appalachian State University leads wind energy push in North Carolina
Nov 29, 2016

By Madalene SmithBrent Summerville, practitioner-in-residence in the Department of Sustainable Technology and the Built Environment, has recently secu...

Laura England

Sustainable Development lecturer leads creek clean up, partners with artists for unique exhibition
Nov 22, 2016

Laura England, lecturer in Appalachian State University’s Goodnight Family Department of Sustainable Development, is a self-professed “creek-geekâ...

Jeff Ramsdell

UNC System awards grants for multi-campus research project
Nov 17, 2016

Jeff Ramsdell, professor of sustainable technology and the built environment and director of the Appalachian Energy Center, will lead a $48,307 p...

Fresh flowers

Campus farmers' market encourages community relations
Nov 15, 2016

By Madalene SmithAppalachian State University’s Goodnight Family Department of Sustainable Development successfully held a campus farmers' market on...

Student and faculty member work on the farm

Sustainable Development professor wins local Farm-City Banquet award
Nov 11, 2016

Dr. Christof den Biggelaar, associate professor in the Goodnight Family Department of Sustainable Development, was awarded the Charles Church food and...

Dr. Gary Paul Nabhan

Sustainable Food Week kicks off with National Food Day October 24
Oct 14, 2016

Appalachian State University, in partnership with Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture, will present Sustainable Food Week Oct. 24-29. The campus community...

Solar car on the track

Racing the Sun [Appalachian Magazine]
Aug 17, 2016

An Appalachian team seeks to change the future of transportation with a solar race car....