Environmental Sustainability major at Philadelphia University

04/07/2017

PhilaU's 6th Annual Sustainability Forum (organized by SOSA, other student environmental groups and the campus Sustainability Committee) starts next week, including capstone project presentations from our SUST seniors at 5:30 pm on Wednesday in the Kanbar Performance Space. Get the details for other Sustainability Forum events in the link below!

Philadelphia University will host the sixth annual Sustainability Forum April 11-13, including discussions, a design charrette and activities around the theme of health and wellness in the built environment.

04/05/2017

Big event on the PhilaU campus next Monday: NAACP activist Jacqueline Patterson is a special guest lecturer on the topic of environmental justice. This promises to be an inspiring and informative evening!

03/30/2017

Today is the day! University students: visit the Living Room at break, download sustainability app MilkCrate and enter to win a prize! mymilkcrate.com/philau

03/21/2017

SOSA (Students Organized for Sustainability Action) President and Environmental Sustainability minor Anna Solyarik leads a Roxboro Roundtable forum on fossil fuel divestment at Philadelphia University. To sign the divestment petition, see the link below on this page.

03/21/2017

Climate change is accelerating. We are witnessing the increasing impacts of a warming planet more and more consistently; in this last year alone our country experienced record-breaking heat, droughts, and hurricanes, which impacted hundreds of thousands of people and cost our country hundreds of bil...

03/02/2017

MilkCrate for Communities, an app that will engage PhilaU students in sustainable behavior, is set to launch campus-wide on Thursday, March 30.

Created by PhilaU Sustainable Design alum Morgan Berman (‘14) the mobile-friendly app will make sustainability and impact fun. Students, as users, will have free access to a private PhilaU community where they can earn points for checking into sustainable businesses, registering for events and volunteering opportunities, signing up for eco-friendly services (like CSAs and car shares), and logging their sustainable activities (like riding a bike to class and using reusable mugs).

Top point earners will earn rewards like cash, tickets to the Phillies, and credit at the bookstore.

For more information, visit the MilkCrate website or follow them on social media ().

Any questions? Feel free to reach out to Caitlin of MilkCrate: [email protected].

02/15/2017

Campus roundtable discussion on fossil fuel divestment!
Join us tomorrow for the weekly Roxboro Roundtable podcast series, when we'll be discussing whether universities should be removing fossil fuel related stocks from their endowments as part of their efforts to stop climate change. Our host will be Environmental Sustainability minor and SOSA president Anna Solyarik, with Environmental Sustainability program director Tom Schrand and Associate Vice President for Operations at PhilaU Tom Becker as panelists for the discussion.
The event starts at 4 pm tomorrow, February 16th, at the Roxboro House.

02/03/2017

Here are two of our seniors, Linda Lin and Grace Weiss, on the job this semester at their EPA internships. This is the first time we've had two Environmental Sustainability majors at the EPA at the same time!
Internships are a great way to gain career skills and build your professional network. Congratulations, Linda and Grace!

01/30/2017

Christopher Ahlers, who taught our Environmental Policy course in the fall, just published this article about strategies to protect low-income minority communities from being disproportionately affected by air pollution. Congratulations, Chris, and thanks for the great work that you are doing with the Clean Air Council!

Environmental justice recognizes that low-income, minority communities are disproportionately affected by air pollution, and that this problem should be address

10/15/2016

A beautiful day for Open House at PhilaU today! If you'd like to find out more about our Environmental Sustainability major, please sign up for the next Open House event on Saturday, November 12th: http://www.philau.edu/undergrad/PlanYourVisit/openhouse.html

10/13/2016

Nate Hafer, one of our Environmental Sustainability graduates, was just featured in a newspaper story about his conservation work with the AmeriCorps VISTA program. He's doing environmental education work and projects to clean up the Schuylkill watershed for the Schuylkill Headwaters project. Nice work, Nate!
You can read more here:
http://republicanherald.com/news/americorps-vista-promote-environmental-education-in-schuylkill-1.2103345

Today, a group of 16 eighth-grade students from Gillingham Charter School in Pottsville will travel to Hawk Mountain Sanctuary in Kempton to learn a bit about the environment. Leading them on their tour will be Nathaniel A. Hafer, an AmeriCorps Volunteer

10/07/2016

Our new improved Environmental Sustainability curriculum was just featured in an article in Sustainability: The Journal of Record.
We offer a comprehensive approach to sustainability education along with innovative specialization tracks to give our graduates skills that match what employers are seeking.
Read the article here:http://www.philau.edu/environsustain/documents/CurriculumArticle.pdf