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Interviews at Emerson 5: Lauren Sadowski
By Katie Koenig Introducing Lauren Sadowski Lauren Sadowski is an affiliated faculty member at Emerson in the Marlboro Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies. Her classes focus on ecology and conservation from an interdisciplinary perspective. She works to engage her students in her classroom, both indoors and outdoors. She herself is a social scientist,…
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Interviews at Emerson 4: Nancy Howell
By Katie Koenig Introducing Nancy Howell Nancy Howell is the Senior Marketing Content Strategist at Emerson, and has worked here for sixteen years. She’s an Emerson alum from 2003, too. She also got involved with sustainability efforts on campus around a decade ago, when she joined the Sustainability Committee. President Jackie Liebergott formed the Committee…
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Interviews at Emerson 3: Homa Sarabi
By Katie Koenig Introducing Homa Sarabi Homa Sarabi is the Director of Production Safety and Sustainability on campus. Although I spoke with her for less time than I did with other staff and faculty members, just like everyone in this series, she still had plenty to say. Work with Emerson Homa has had the opportunity…
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Interviews at Emerson 2: Amy Rinaldo
By Katie Koenig Introducing Amy Rinaldo Amy Rinaldo is the Associate Director of English Language Learning (ELL) in International Student Affairs at Emerson. She supports English language skills and skill development for multilingual students, especially for multilingual international students. Even if they aren’t international students, Amy works to provide support for those that may struggle…
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Interviews at Emerson: Michael Tucker
By Katie Koenig Nowadays, we toss the word ‘sustainability’ around a lot without defining exactly what we’re talking about. It’s an incredibly broad term, which I suppose is one of the reasons we use it so often. Still, it can be hard to figure out what sustainability is and how to practice it on a…
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Day in the Life 3: What Are LEED Certifications?
Emerson is LEED certified—yay! Wonderful! We love accreditations! …But what does that actually mean? The U.S. Green Building Council can certify any building with a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification. It’s a “globally recognized symbol of sustainability achievement,” ensuring that the building is cost-saving, energy efficient, and offers additional environmental benefits. There are…
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Day in the Life 2: Voluntary Carbon Market
By: Katie Koenig In my last post, I mentioned doing research on other universities’ carbon offset strategies for Emerson to create its own. What I didn’t explain was the background for why so many universities have turned to offsetting their emissions in the first place. Starting in the ‘90s, the voluntary carbon market (VCM) began…
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Day in the Life 1: What Does Carbon Neutrality Actually Mean?
By: Katie Koenig Officially, I’m the Research Sustainability Fellow at Emerson College. Functionally, that means I spend a lot of time on my computer, figuring out the most efficient way to word google queries to find the exact internet pages and websites I need for my current projects. Not a lot of my work is…
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Kasteel Well 6: Flying Home
By Sustainability Research Fellow Katie Koenig With the hindsight of winter break, it’s a lot easier to pinpoint the things that really worked out for move out and the flight back to Boston, and the things that really didn’t. For starters, I was so glad I had so little to pack during finals weekend—a weird…
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Kasteel Well 5: Buying in Bruges
By Sustainability Research Fellow Katie Koenig As the end of the semester crept closer for us Castle students, some friends and I were determined to get in some kind of holiday cheer as a last hurrah before the abysmal weeks of finals and finals prep were upon us. Although the first snow in Kasteel was…
