Mission of the UNH Sustainability Academy
Mission of the UNH Sustainability Academy (UNHSA)
To move UNH and the region "beyond green." The UNH Sustainability Academy brings together people and resources from across and beyond campus to integrate sustainability across UNH's "CORE":
- Curriculum: Educating citizen-professionals to advance sustainability in their civic and professional lives
- Operations: Embodying first principles and best practices of sustainability
- Research: Serving society with scholarship that responds to the most pressing issues of sustainability
- Engagement: Collaborating locally to globally with extension and outreach
We do this work through four initiatives designed around four foundational systems of sustainability -- biodiversity, climate, food, and liberal arts/humanities.
- Biodiversity Education Initiative (BEI): Commitment to promoting ecological and public health. BEI topics include biodiversity, ecosystems, land use and conservation, water, waste minimization, recycling, and more.
- Climate Education Initiative (CEI): Commitment to pursuing carbon neutrality through sustainable energy and emissions reduction policies, practices, research, and education. CEI topics include energy conservation and efficiency (from buildings to transportation), greenhouse gas emissions tracking and reduction planning, and more.
- Food & Society Initiative (FAS): Commitment to promoting healthy food systems from farm to fork to health and nutrition outcomes.
- Culture & Sustainability Initiative (CAS): Commitment to bringing the knowledge and creative inquiry of the liberal and humanities on sustainability. CAS topics include cultural and natural heritage, social justice, inclusive excellence, behavioral changes toward sustainability, and multigenerational (past, present and future) conversations of sustainability.
