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Mapping the way Towards Sustainability – City of Travelers Rest Planning Fellow
This summer, I began seeing maps in my dreams. As part of my fellowship with the City of Travelers Rest, I dove headfirst into Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software to process, analyze, and visualize data....
Continue ReadingWhat You Can Learn From Protecting A River
A river is as important to the land as a vein is to an organ. This is something that I had heard before, but my summer internship made me actually understand how vital rivers really...
Continue ReadingHow Food Connects Us All
Food is something that we all take for granted. In the modern United States, we have constant convenient access to food which is beneficial to everyone’s busy schedules. However, through this cultural shift over the...
Continue ReadingRegional Roots, Resilient Future: How the Southern Lowcountry Is Collaborating to Accelerate Resilience Action
Adelaide Bates was recently featured in the Geos Institute News for her work in Beaufort. Adelaide connected Beaufort County's existing resilience plan with Resilient Cities Catalyst, and together they launched a Resilience Accelerator that drew over...
Continue ReadingImpact is a Two-Way Street
If you peeked into a classroom at the Greenville Zoo one morning in July, you would have seen me introducing a class of 9-year-olds to a chinchilla named Kenickie. And in the back of that...
Continue ReadingGarden Pace: How Working on a Farm Displays the Relativity of Time
As humans, we are used to experiencing time in a very specific way. Human society is structured around, unsurprisingly, human time. The average life cycle of a person stays pretty much the same wherever you...
Continue ReadingWait, what exactly are you doing at these bus stops?
“Are you just riding the bus everywhere?” “What are you actually doing at each stop? “You’re taking how much to each stop?” The chorus of my summer. My friends and family assume they understand when I tell them that I’m...
Continue ReadingStormwater Management: Can you spot it?
Here, you can (if you squint) see me waist-deep in one of the most interesting parts of my fellowship with the City of Greenville’s Environmental Engineering department: stream walks. While this sounds like a leisurely way...
Continue ReadingProject Host: A Multifaceted Experience for Good
As an eco-friendly person, I don’t think I could have imagined how superbly a community coming together could intertwine with sustainable action to meet the hunger needs of so many people. Project Host provides nutritious...
Continue ReadingLeadership Through Serving Others at Sustaining Way
Have you truly thought about the definition of sustainability? The UN World Commission on Environment and Development defines sustainability as “...development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet...
Continue ReadingSummer Along the Reedy River
Many people would say that the heart of Greenville is downtown, especially Falls Park. After spending this summer with Friends of the Reedy River, though, I came to see it differently. The true heart of Greenville isn't a building...
Continue ReadingSustainability Is Rooted In Community
Everyone should get equal access to sustainable resources and learn about what is available, which is why Sustaining Way is such an important organization. My name is Maggie Kelleher and I recently graduated from Furman University with...
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