Diverse group of USU faculty converge to discuss carbon neutrality and sustainability

For the first time at Utah State University, a diverse group of faculty representing a wide range of departments came together to discuss how carbon neutrality and sustainability can be integrated into classroom curriculum at USU.

Faculty representing theater, geology, economics, history and computer science recently converged for a day-long workshop called “Destinations: Planetary Thinking in the Curriculum.”

The workshop is the result of the America College and University Presidents Climate Commitment, signed by President Stan Albrecht in 2007 to acknowledge higher education’s role in sustainability and calls for USU to be carbon neutral by 2050.

Guest speakers included Rob Davies, Utah Climate Center physicist and educator, USU professors Ed Staufford and Kit Mohr and a panel of students.

A trip to USU’s industrial composter and a performance of a musical piece about the water cycle by the Fry Street Quartet were chosen to demonstrate the breadth of sustainability concepts – from campus operations to fine arts.

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