Department of Sustainable Development at ASU

SD students lead by SD faculty Laura England have produced some important and inspiring creative pieces on the current biodiversity crisis and their connections with it. We will be sharing some of these stories in this thread. #ClimateStories #ClimateChange #6thExtinction

Excited that App State will host Paul Bogard next week to discuss this new anthology. App State contributors to the collection, Jennifer Westerman and Laura England, will share readings of their essays. Details at climatestories.appstate.edu/Solastalgia

Check out appstatetocop.com to meet the App State students participating as delegates at COP 27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt this November. @appstate @walkercob @SDAPPSTATE @sustainApp @AppChancellor @COP27P

In less than two weeks the student delegates from App State will participate in COP 27 at Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. Follow them here. Meet the group at appstatetocop.com @appstate @walkercob @sustainApp @AppChancellor @COP27P @SDAPPSTATE

Today we had a visit from students in Dr. Cody Miller's Sustainable Development 3541, Integrative Agricultural Humanities. They were dipping into our massive Appalachian cookbook collection to learn about Appalachian foodways. #appalachianfoodways @SDAPPSTATE

#RegisterRewind - #aghist topic of "Sowing Seeds and Reclaiming the Commons: Possibilities and Pathways for the Future of Appalachian Agricultural History" by Dr. Cody Miller. Available on @ProjectMUSE here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/39787. @AgHistorySoc @AppalachStudies @SDAPPSTATE

Together with the Immigrant Mountaineer Program, SD professor Dr. Aniseh Bro, will work to support the Mountaineer community on the needs and concerns of immigration-affected individuals and their families today.appstate.edu/2022/07/25/inn…

I'm excited to release this episode, it was an honor to host this panel with four brilliant people who have significantly influenced how I see the world. All about the intertwining topics of doughnut economics, warm data, and ecological and cultural regeneration

Best wishes to Dr. Christof den Biggelaar who is retiring from the Sustainable Development Department and Appalachian State University after 22 years!!!

It’s the @SDAPPSTATE Farmer’s Market! #appstate

1. Dear friends and followers, @SDAPPSTATE in @appstate is recruiting. Kindly share within your network and retweet. The Goodnight Family Sustainable Development Department at Appalachian State University is hiring an Assistant Professor focused on agroecology

Come join our Department! We are hiring an Assistant Professor in Agroecology. appstate.peopleadmin.com/postings/32566

Next up in our "Imaging Nature" thematic series, a piece by Rebecca Witter @RebeccaWitter and Dana Powell on the work of witnessing and theorizing environmental politics through murals, quilts, and other media #AnthroTwitter #EnviroAnthro aesengagement.wordpress.com/2022/01/18/pha…

We are happy to share this new blog post by SD professor Dr. Rebecca Witter and Anthropology professor Dr. Dana Powell "Phantoms within and beyond the Frame: Stirrings of Justice amidst Specters of Rural Capitalism" aesengagement.wordpress.com/2022/01/18/pha…

Great to see our SD students contributing to the community with their time, labor, and dedication!

Sandy Wilson is retiring this month, you may know her as the person with all the answers, as the one who you call when you need help, she has been called the glue of the Department, a grounding presence. We will miss you Sandy, dearly. Photo of Sandy and Jen Westerman.

Goodnight Family Department of Sustainable Development Announces New Department Chair Dr. Jennifer Westerman faa.appstate.edu/news/goodnight…

We are excited to welcome Dr. Jennifer Westerman as our new Department chair, as we honor and celebrate the leadership and vision that Dr. Richard Rheingans brought to the Department. sd.appstate.edu/directory/jenn…

**NEW BOOK ALERT** SD Assistant Professor Dr. Jacqui Ignatova's new book is out: "Contesting Africa’s New Green Revolution Biotechnology and Philanthrocapitalist Development in Ghana" bloomsbury.com/us/contesting-…

New in #TIBG: The new cold war and the rise of the 21st century infrastructure state, by @seth_schindler (@GlobalDevInst), Jessica DiCarlo (@cugeography) & Dinesh Paudel (@SDAPPSTATE) orlo.uk/ovn9d

Did you hear about #badcomposting? I’m thrilled with this initiative of @SDAPPSTATE students. This summer, BAD started operating a booth at the King Street Tuesday Market, offering a new service: the Home Growers Collective! Their mission to increase food security 🥇🙏🏼💯