{"id":11,"date":"2022-06-15T15:13:24","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T19:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/conversations\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2022-10-04T11:07:27","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T15:07:27","slug":"sustainability-in-action","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/sustainabilitysuppers\/sustainability-in-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainability in action"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

URI is leading the conversation on sustainability across academic disciplines. Learn how our faculty, students, and alumni are thinking about sustainability in their research and lives.<\/p>\n\n\n

Joseph Goodwill wants to make your drinking water stronger.<\/h1>Stress can be good<\/a><\/div><\/div>
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\u201cWe\u2019re no longer in a position to use water once and discharge it. What worked for the last 100 years isn\u2019t going to work for the next 100.\u201d<\/blockquote>Joseph Goodwill, assistant professor, civil and environmental engineering<\/cite><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n

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Jason Jaacks chases awe and wonder.<\/h1>Experience it<\/a><\/div><\/div>
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\u201cIf you can get people to stop and to care, you can use that sense of awe to galvanize them.\u201d<\/blockquote>Jason Jaacks, assistant professor of multimedia journalism<\/cite><\/div><\/section>\n\n

Gretchen Macht wants you to trust election results.<\/h1>Sustaining Democracy<\/a><\/div><\/div>
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\u201cPeople will believe in the results of an election when their person won or their voting experience was easy.\u201d<\/blockquote>Gretchen Macht, assistant professor of mechanical, industrial and systems engineering<\/cite><\/div><\/section>\n\n

Rosemary Leger talks trash about your fast fashion habit.<\/h1>Join the conversation<\/a><\/div><\/div>
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\u201cI want to flip the narrative from consumer behavior to disposer behavior.\u201d <\/blockquote>Rosemary Leger, M.A. \u201921, Ph.D. student, marketing<\/cite><\/div><\/section>\n\n

John Taylor wants to bring the forest to the city.<\/h1>Growing communities<\/a><\/div><\/div>
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\u201cI\u2019m interested in developing urban food systems that are sustainable in the fullest sense of the word.\u201d<\/blockquote>John Taylor, assistant professor, agroecology<\/cite><\/div><\/section>\n\n

Isobel McCullough preserves the sounds of Rhode Island’s beaches.<\/h1>Listen closely<\/a><\/div><\/div>
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\u201cBy creating soundscapes for seven beaches around South County, I have preserved their unique sonic environments before they disappear forever.\u201d<\/blockquote> Isobel McCullough \u201922<\/cite><\/div><\/section>\n\n

Amanda Missimer and Vanessa Venturini want you to stop wasting food.<\/h1>Here’s How<\/a><\/div><\/div>
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\u201cWe have diverted 140,000 pounds of food from the landfill and over 60,000 pounds of food has gone to people instead of landfills.\u201d<\/blockquote>Vanessa Venturini, ’08, M.S. ’11, URI Extension Coordinator and co-founder of Food Recovery for RI<\/cite><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n

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