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IL Governor Issues “Stay-at-Home” Mandate / RU Updates
Roosevelt University has posted a Coronavirus (Covid-19) Emergence Response website to provide the university community with up-to-date information about this rapidly changing situation. Please check it frequently for new information on classes and campus operations. RU students should check their … Continue reading
All @RooseveltU Classes Postponed Until 3/23
Roosevelt University has posted a Coronavirus (Covid-19) Emergence Response website to provide the university community with up-to-date information about this rapidly changing situation. Please check it frequently for new information on classes and campus operations. RU students should check their … Continue reading
SUST Alumni Update from Margaret Allen (BA ’19)
One of the best things about teaching in RU’s Sustainability Studies program is hearing about our alumni successes in graduate school, professional internships, employment, travel, and/or community service. This Spring 2020 semester we aim to profile our alumni every few … Continue reading
Pruitt Is Gone, but the EPA Must Return to Its Mission of Protecting the Environment
by Mike Bryson, SUST Blog Editor The blockbuster national news of this week is the long-overdue resignation of the scandal-ridden Scott Pruitt from the US Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday, July 5th, as reported by the NY Times, Inside Climate … Continue reading
The Dangers of Working in Waste
SUST co-founder and former Roosevelt University professor Carl Zimring, now professor of sustainability studies at the Pratt Institute in NYC, published this powerful op-ed in the Friday 2/9 online edition of the NY Times. In his essay, “A Waste Worker … Continue reading
EPA and Dept of the Interior Excise Climate Change from Strategic Plans
by Mike Bryson In this new era of administrative incompetence, mendacity, and malfeasance here in these United States, two federal departments stand out for their energetic actions to roll back policies and regulations developed over the past several decades: the … Continue reading
Posted in climate change, ethics, news, parks and public land, planning, policy, pollution
We Are Still In: Roosevelt U President Ali Affirms Paris Agreement
by Dr. Ali Malekzadeh, President of Roosevelt University Roosevelt University recognizes our responsibility to the environment. Despite President Trump’s withdrawal . . . [on 1 June 2017] of the U.S. from the Paris Agreements, we reaffirm our commitment to national … Continue reading
Posted in climate change, ecology, education, ethics, news, policy, Roosevelt, social justice
