Exciting things are happening with Georgia Tech's Living Building - check out what's been going on over the summer!

The Living Building Equity Goals and the Equity Petal Work Group, headed by Serve-Learn-Sustain's Director, Dr. Jennifer Hirsch.

Six Pilot Projects for the Living Building that provide opportunities for student involvement.

The work of the Energy Petal…


SLS is excited to announce our Fall 2017 Event Series!  Check out the schedule on our Events page and stay tuned for more detailed information!  Mark your calendars!

 

 


With Phase II registration in progress, SLS would like to highlight three exciting affiliated courses!  HTS 2803: Special Topics – Environmental Sociology, Instructor: Kate Pride Brown; LMC 6312: Technology, Representation and Design (“Data Walks”), Instructor: Yanni Loukissas; ​MGT 4803: Sustainable Marketing, Instructor: Dionne Nickerson.  Check out these courses, and the rest of our Fall 2017 course offerings on our Courses page.


HTS 2803: Special Topics – Environmental Sociology   Instructor: Kate Pride Brown

The Georgia Tech students who affiliate with programs like Serve-Learn-Sustain are world-savers. With passion and dedication, they will be the ones who design a better solar battery, envision sustainable logistical systems,…


Serve-Learn-Sustain was pleased to co-host this year's INSS Conference on Smart, Connected Communities with the Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) and Civic Data Science this past June.  Check out this article by Alyson Powell, one of IPaT's Communications Officers, with her perspective on the conference.

Alyson Powell serves as a Communications Officer for IPaT, assisting with copywriting and marketing IPaT through the creation of marketing materials such as videos, newsletters, and graphics.  She brings nearly 15 years experience in marketing, web development, and broadcasting to her position.


In June 2017, The Center for Serve-Learn-Sustain partnered with IPaT and Civic Data Science to host a satellite conference as part of the Integrated Network for Social Sustainability (INSS).  The multi-site conference with the theme of "Smart, Connected Communities," focused on smart cities and data for sustainable communities.  Carl DiSalvo, SCCC Fellows Program Faculty Co-Director, presented a Smart Cities panel discussion, which built on the work of the Smart Cities, Connected Communities Fellows program.  For additional INSS resources, please see our resources page

Read additional reflections by our SCCC Fellows.


Rethinking the City in Smart Cities,…


In June 2017, The Center for Serve-Learn-Sustain partnered with IPaT and Civic Data Science to host a satellite conference as part of the Integrated Network for Social Sustainability (INSS).  The multi-site conference with the theme of "Smart, Connected Communities," focused on smart cities and data for sustainable communities.  Carl DiSalvo, SCCC Fellows Program Faculty Co-Director, presented a Smart Cities panel discussion, which built on the work of the Smart Cities, Connected Communities Fellows program.  For additional INSS resources, please see our resources page

Read additional reflections by our SCCC Fellows.


Rethinking the City in Smart Cities,…


We are pleased to provide you with the third in a series of blog posts from our 2017 SLS Global Student Ambassadors.  As one of the Ambassadors, participating in the Japan Summer Program in Sustainable Development, Emma Browning, provides a perspective on sustainability in a rural area of Japan (Ogaki City) versus a metropolitan area of Japan (Tokyo).

 

Ogaki City: Rural Sustainability

 

A fast food curry restaurant situated next to a rice paddy in Ogaki City. Compared to Tokyo, Ogaki has a great deal more agriculture coexisting with its more modern shopping and entertainment - it’s difficult to walk anywhere within the city without stumbling across a rice field or a community garden. This mix of traditional and contemporary keeps the environment in constant focus rather than brushing it off as a vague, irrelevant…


We are pleased to provide you with the second in a series of blog posts from our 2017 SLS Global Student Ambassadors.  This week, we highlight the Language for Business and Technology (LBAT): Germany program, which takes students throughout Germany and explores regional perspectives in lifestyles, history, and traditions, as well as from an industrial point of view.  Our Global Student Ambassadors in this program, Gabby Oliverio and Deanna Lalo, have been writing a blog about their experiences, highlighting various sustainability related issues they have studied, including refugees in Germanytransportationtrash…


My research for the past few years has evolved into supply chain social and environmental responsibility. An overarching question that guides my work is: How can the buyer firms be sure their suppliers engage in socially and environmentally responsible practices? It’s a difficult question to answer. After all, the buyers cannot observe processes used to produce goods; they must engage with their suppliers to understand what’s going on. The buyers try different mechanisms (both reward and penalty), yet no one has completely solved the problem. I am looking into issues of how to manage suppliers to make sure they are socially and environmentally responsible.

As a Food-Energy-Water Systems (FEWS) Fellow, I conducted research that will help me answer the following question: How should companies communicate their sustainability contributions to consumers? I want to discover if it makes a difference to consumers whether a company engages in sustainable operations practices or if…