Coverage of all things designed to transform Georgia State into a more sustainable and green campus.
With the threats of climate change and pollution ever-looming, there is a need for more professionals trained, taught and inspired to tackle these issues head-on. To encourage this career pathway, the Office of Sustainability is […]
Panthers will be celebrating Earth Day indoors this year, and The Signal would like to help by offering a list of ways to practice sustainable living during COVID-19. The threat of the virus demonstrates how […]
Besides news about the negative effects of COVID-19, there have been social media posts claiming that the environment has improved tremendously due to lack of human traffic in major cities around the world. A photoset […]
The Senate Sustainability Committee’s second meeting of the semester on Sept. 27 was a look forward at some of the goals the members hopes to accomplish over the next year — and even further. From […]
Beginning this fall semester, Georgia State students’ sustainability fee was raised from $3 to $5. Where exactly is that money going? For starters, the Office of Sustainability has recycled 32 percent of the university’s waste […]
Georgia’s short term ozone pollution has worsened according to the 2018 air quality report by the American Lung Association (ALA). This report came in the midst of several rollbacks on environmental protections by Scott Pruitt, […]
On May 1, 2017, a resolution introduced by Kwanza Hall was passed during the Atlanta City Council that commits Atlanta to transitioning to 100 percent renewable energy. A year later, the Atlanta Office of Resilience […]
Despite the freezing temperatures these past two weeks, 2017 was still in the top three hottest years on record. The vast majority of scientists maintain that a significant proportion of this change from past decades […]
BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AT GEORGIA STATE Atlanta has long been home to the leader in biomedical research, the Center for Disease Control, which received $8.25 billion in funding in fiscal year 2018. Joining the CDC in […]
In July 2016, Georgia State’s PantherDining began using a freight farm located behind Piedmont North to produce crops, such as kale, lettuce and herbs, using a method known as hydroponics. Hydroponics is the process of […]
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