The USU Extension Sustainability initiative offers programs for educators, youth, producers, and the general public in various areas of sustainability. Interested in professional development? Sustainable You! camps for your kids? Tools and techniques to save money and improve your lifestyle? Find them in our program series.
Programs Offered
Sustainable You! Camps
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Camps designed to foster awareness and behavior change among youth through activities and reflection in the five major areas of environmental sustainability: Land, Air, Food, Water, and Energy. Objectives are to help youth 1) Discuss and reflect on key sustainability concepts; 2) Engage in daily activities that improve the natural environment; and 3) Learn daily actions extending beyond the camp that lessen their impact on our environment and conserve resources.
Utah Farm-Chef-Fork
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Utah Farm-Chef-Fork is a USDA Specialty Crop funded program, that is a collaboration between the USDA, Utah State University Extension Sustainability, and Slow Food Utah. The goal is to enhance community vitality and reduce food miles by connecting Utah producers and restaurants.
USU Permaculture Initiative
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USU Extension Sustainability is helping create Utah’s first official campus permaculture gardens by planting all of USU Moab’s gardens in permaculture design, and implementing a permaculture garden on main campus in Logan.
Moab Bee Inspired Gardens
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Bee Inspired Gardens is a collaborative community garden initiative in Moab, UT, establishing and sharing information about water-wise, ecological landscaping. The mission is to inspire efforts toward pollinator health, water conservation, and food and forage systems using gardens, workshops and resources in a way that benefits our community and ecosystems.
Utah High School Clean Air Marketing Contest
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The contest seeks to (1) inform high school teens learning to drive to recognize local air pollution, understand the pollution problems associated with their new driving privilege, and learn driving behaviors that can lessen their personal impact (e.g., refraining from idling, carpooling, trip-chaining, taking the bus, walking, biking, etc.); and (2) have those high school teens create educational outreach posters about how people can reduce their personal impact on local air pollution aimed at their peers and local residents.
Education (fact sheets, lesson plans, videos, etc.)
Program Leadership
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