Join the Georgia College Office of Sustainability, Sustainability Council, Office of Inclusive Excellence and Rural Studies Institute for the Environmental Justice Symposium! Featuring keynote speaker Dr. Richard Milligan, Assistant Professor at Georgia State University, sharing an address called, "What are We Trying to Sustain? Racism, Watersheds, and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice." Preceding this address, join us for a forum featuring Dr. Veronica Womack, GC Rural Studies...
Food. It’s a necessity of life, yet it also takes up the most space in landfills. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) estimates that 30-40% of the food supply is wasted. That’s 80 billion pounds each year. Georgia College’s Office of Sustainability works to curb that number, at least as it relates to food waste on campus with a composting operation.“We've been operating since 2017, and we have processed nearly 70,000 pounds total. That’s almost 10,000 pounds just this semester,”...
Effective Thursday, April 14th, Georgia Power will be working on the Milledgeville substation which will require a brief power outage. The majority of the Main Campus will experience a 30-45 second outage between the hours of 5 a.m. – 7 a.m. Assuming everything goes as planned, Georgia Power does not expect any delays with power returning to normal operations. We apologize for this inconvenience. If you have any questions, please contact the Office of Sustainability at 478-445-7016...
Phi Kappa Phi and the Sustainability Council present: Atomic Homefront Thursday, April 14, 6:00-7:30pm Peabody Auditorium (Kilpatrick 216) Please invite students, staff, faculty, and friends! The City of St. Louis has a little-known nuclear past as a uranium-processing center for the Atomic bomb. Government and corporate negligence led to the dumping of Manhattan Project uranium, thorium, and radium, thus contaminating North St. Louis suburbs, specifically in two communities: those...
Phi Kappa Phi and the Sustainability Council present: Mossville: When Great Trees Fall Tuesday, April 12, 7:00-8:30pm Peabody Auditorium (Kilpatrick 216) Please invite students, staff, faculty, and friends! Mossville, Louisiana is a shadow of its former self – a community rich in natural resources and history, founded by formerly enslaved people and free people of color – where neighbors lived in harmony, insulated from the horrors of Jim Crow. Today, however, Mossville no longer resembles...
Georgia College students, faculty and staff take sustainability seriously. Efficiency is at the forefront with recycling efforts, generating and using compost, the community garden and the newly built Integrated Science Complex (ISC). “There's a lot that goes into the planning stages of the ISC,” said Lori Hamilton, chief sustainability officer. “Several individuals on campus were included in conversations about the energy efficiency needs of the building. Those systems were selected...
From a young age, Emma Brodzik, ’17, felt a strong connection to nature. She understood the importance of repurposing materials to help the environment. Now she works in the Office of Solid Waste Management and Recycling at Georgia Institute of Technology. “Sustainability has always been interesting to me,” she said. “I used to ask my parents to drive me to recycling stations when we moved to Georgia, because our neighborhood didn't have a pickup.” At Georgia College, Brodzik was...
Phi Kappa Phi and the Sustainability Council present: Atomic Homefront Thursday, April 14, 6:00-7:30pm Peabody Auditorium (Kilpatrick 216) Please invite students, staff, faculty, and friends! The City of St. Louis has a little-known nuclear past as a uranium-processing center for the Atomic bomb. Government and corporate negligence led to the dumping of Manhattan Project uranium, thorium, and radium, thus contaminating North St. Louis suburbs, specifically in two communities: those...
Phi Kappa Phi and the Sustainability Council present: Mossville: When Great Trees Fall Tuesday, April 12, 7:00-8:30pm Peabody Auditorium (Kilpatrick 216) Please invite students, staff, faculty, and friends! Mossville, Louisiana is a shadow of its former self – a community rich in natural resources and history, founded by formerly enslaved people and free people of color – where neighbors lived in harmony, insulated from the horrors of Jim Crow. Today, however, Mossville no longer resembles...
Nominations are now being accepted for the 2022 Maldonado Environmental Hero Award. Colin A. Maldonado was a 2013 graduate of Georgia College, with a major in Environmental Science and a minor in Geology. He was President of the Environmental Science Club, a leader for the GC Wellness & Recreation Center climbing wall, and a member of the Bike Polo team. Colin was an activist and a visualist; he employed his heart and his education to manifest a better world for all of us. During...
