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CLEAN & GREEN
veloped over the past several years, it is abundantly clear
that the combined energy and efforts of Southern’s stu-
dents, faculty, administration, and staff in promoting and
extending sustainability, and inculcating its concepts into
every area of campus life, have helped earn the univer-
sity its new nickname, “Sustainable Southern.”
Southern’s president, Dr. Mary Papazian, puts it this way:
“We have been working very hard as a university to adopt
and develop sustainability in ways that help us address
our most pressing institutional challenges. Sometimes
sustainability is characterized as ‘doing well by doing
good,’ and we’ve taken that to heart. Sustainability is a
unifying principle throughout our new 10-year University
Strategic Plan, and we also articulate it as a goal with
specific action items and indicators of progress. The
Presidents Climate Commitment is a bold pledge. Car-
bon neutrality will take years of planning and hard work
to reach, but it provides a pathway and a range of ap-
proaches that are essential tools for our present and fu-
ture well-being as a public university.”
