Sustainability

We are thrilled to welcome the Shi Institute’s 2026-27 class of Student Fellows. This year’s cohort comes from Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Communications and their projects are just as diverse. Our Eco-Rep Fellows are growing peer-to-peer education and engagement. The Communications and Outreach Fellow is amplifying stories that spark behavior...Read more

Sustainability work can be challenging, occasionally full of set backs and “bad news.” One of our Eco Rep Fellows, Emmett Neal, has put together a round of up good news, “because not everything is bad and not enough attention is...Read more

Each spring, Furman University recognizes five graduating seniors as Furman Fellows — one of the university’s highest honors. Selected for their accomplishments, creativity, problem-solving and the respect of their peers and faculty, each Fellow receives a $10,000 award, made possible through the generosity of Trustee Emeritus Bob Buckman, who passed...Read more

How can leading a diverse group of college students with a united passion for campus sustainability transcend into life beyond Furman? This was a question I sought to answer when speaking with Furman alumna, Kylie Gambrill ‘23. What I did not expect to discover from our interview is how transformational...Read more

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 are. Greenville has many little streams that are all a part of the greater Reedy...Read more

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 past century, we have lost our connection to how our food is provided to...Read more

The Simpsonville Sentinel reports on a July visit by the Mauldin Garden Club to the Furman Farm, where members traded note-taking for weed-pulling on a “work and learn” morning. Farm manager Bruce Adams and student interns showed the group around the quarter-acre organic garden, teaching the group about on-campus...Read more

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