This newsletter features our 2021 impacts from the USU Extension Sustainability Permaculture Initiative. The impact report includes produce and herbs donated, knowledge gain from workshop participants, 2021 publications, and more. We also link to our perm...
This newsletter features our newest publication, an open-access article in Sustainability and Climate Change exploring life paths to leading systems level change. We also share insights into the Logan and Moab editions of Utah Climate Week, postponement o...
This summer, a haze of smoke covers the West like a blanket, burning our lungs and reminding us of the consequences of a changed climate. Our USU Extension Sustainability newsletter features our Extension climate change efforts, including a spring Climate...
As we emerge from the darkest days of the year, our sights turn to spring, sewing seeds, and reconnecting with the community. This USU Extension Sustainability newsletter features our publications about social and environmental healing, and about communit...
Our fall newsletter covers some of our recent work with USU Extension Sustainability, ranging from our new renewable energy-focused publication to a Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program training series for growers.
From zero waste shopping to addressing degenerative thought patterns including systemic racism, this newsletter covers some of the recent happenings with USU Extension Sustainability.
In consideration that many of you are now working from home while also trying to entertain children, our USU Extension Sustainability team has pulled together resources that may prove helpful. This shortened newsletter highlights a paid summer internship ...
In this newsletter, we feature our USDA Farmers Market Promotion Program grant team's efforts to connect low income and ethnic minority populations across the state to local food. Included is an information sheet and many resources our grant team houses o...
It's fall and peak harvest season has arrived. This newsletter features our own and other Extension work in the local food movement. We also encourage you to engage in Utah's 2019 Eat Local Week occurring statewide September 7-14. No events in your area? ...
The hottest months of summer are upon us. In this summer newsletter, we continue highlights of our work in regeneration through permaculture design occurring across the country. In addition to blog highlights from interviews with permaculture leaders in t...
As leaves and flowers open to the sun, this spring newsletter highlights work in regeneration through permaculture design occurring across the West. In addition to blog highlights from interviews with permaculture leaders in the West, two new members have...
This year, we (Drs. Roslynn Brain McCann and Edwin Stafford) revisited the concept of "Inconvenient Youth" as we taught and surveyed teens across three counties in Utah and now southern Idaho about air quality and action steps that can be taken to improve...
Inversion season is around the corner and now is the time to change habits for better health, happiness, and a healthier community by engaging in alternative modes of transportation. This newsletter features our most recent guest blogger, Meg McCarthy, wh...
If summer is finding you busy as a bee, this newsletter is for you! Discover information about building bee hotels, permaculture, sustainability summits, conferences, symposiums, and more, below.
May is National Bike Month! Now may be the time to blow some dust off your bike and head out for fun and/or your mode of transportation. This newsletter provides information about the National Bike Challenge, along with tips for transportation, health, an...
The "Inconvenient Youth" in Utah are enacting behavioral change to help clean up our air. This newsletter features results from Drs. Edwin Stafford and Roslynn Brain McCann's outreach to over 400 high school youth regarding the 2017 Utah High School Clean...
Our Fall Quarter Newsletter provides insight into perspectives of sustainability outreach by Western Extension educators. What are we doing well? Where do we need to go? Where does climate change outreach fall on the priority list? Other stories include m...
The heat is on as we experience above-average temperatures across Utah. In the midst of this heatwave, our latest USU Extension Sustainability newsletter highlights Southwest climate change information and training tools. Learn how to prepare for hotter, ...
As robins and sandhill cranes make their return, leaves bud out, flowers bloom, and bees busily buzz, Utah springs to life! This newsletter highlights many Extension and government resources on gardening - both for pollinators and for people. Whether you ...
Another Utah winter is upon us, and many turn their focus to our air quality and what can be done to improve it. This newsletter highlights a new guide to help foster community change. It includes education about air quality and what you can do to help im...
