Sustainability

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 60 participants from 40-plus organizations. That momentum grew into a...Read more

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 room, as I told them all about him, sat a little girl falling in...Read more

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 go. Being that this is the case, I’ve always gone about life at a...Read more

One thing that has surprised Erin Faulkner ’28 about her Shi Institute internship at Topsoil Restaurant in Travelers Rest is just how much you can learn by growing your own food. Faulkner, who is double majoring in anthropology and biology, started her work with Topsoil in June and has been...Read more

“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 doing inventory, but when the conversation continues, I get to...Read more

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 to spend one’s day, don’t be fooled. Even a guy like me that loves rivers, streams,...Read more

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 meals to numerous, diverse, food-insecure communities. Seizing the opportunity to become an intern...Read more

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 a Bachelor of Science in Sustainability with a double major in Philosophy. I am...Read more

Pictured above: Corn approaching harvest; Frederick is 6ft tall for reference. A few weeks at the Furman Farm breeze by for anyone who works there, but all the stages of life are present throughout. My name is Frederick Dunning, and I’m the Student Assistant Farm Manager at the Furman...Read more

When other viticulturists told the owners of Paris Mountain Vineyard and I that it would be impossible to grow grapes one hundred percent organically, we took ‘impossible’ as a challenge to prove them wrong. Pruning...Read more

Each year, public transit in Greenville County serves approximately 750,000 rides across more than 270 miles of service and 480 stops, with access available to 32% of households. These numbers matter, but their […] The post Seeing the Bigger Picture: How Data Uncovers the Power of Public Transit appeared first on Shi Institute.Read more

Working on Furman’s Greenhouse Gas Report has helped me understand how small actions can make big impacts. Something as small as swapping a lightbulb can save enough energy to power […] The post Data for a Greener FUture appeared first on Shi Institute.Read more

Our campus closely resembles a maze. After attending Furman for about 4 years now, I still discover new paths to get to where I need to be simply by living […] The post Walking & Mapping: Reimagine Furman’s Campus with a New Map appeared first on Shi Institute.Read more

Just a short walk from the center of Furman’s main campus is a place where students, faculty, and community members can contribute directly to our university’s sustainability goals. In addition to being a place where we can grow our own food, Furman Farm is also a classroom, a gathering place,...Read more

Furman University’s Ken Kolb, professor and chair of the Department of Sociology, is at the center of a study commissioned by the Northside Development Group in Spartanburg, South Carolina. In concert with researchers at Furman’s Shi Institute for Sustainable Communities, Kolb is looking at rising property values in...Read more