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Want to reduce your personal carbon footprint on campus? Check out our campus map of filling stations for reusable water bottles, participate in campus recycling efforts, rent a bike from the campus bike co-op, and learn how our food provider, Bon Appetit, is creating a more sustainable campus dining experience. Below are some groups on campus already involved in sustainability efforts.
Rhodes Sustainability Coalition
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Check out this information for sustainable modes of transportation and ways to reduce plastic and food waste.
Map of Refillable Water-Bottle Stations (Downloadable PDF) (Interactive)
Project Green Fork: certified restaurants
City of Memphis bike/pedestrian site, with maps
Google biking route map
Commute Options Memphis, a site to help folks transition to other commuting options (including students)
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Want to incorporate sustainability information and issues into your academic experience? Check out some of our courses and internships below.
Departments and Programs
Departments/Programs offering at least one course focusing on a sustainability topic. Included in parentheses are examples of courses offered; there are more courses offered than are listed.
- Anthropology & Sociology (Gender & the Environment; Ecological Anthropology; Indigenous People of North America)
- Biology (Environmental Science; Conservation Biology; Science of Climate Change; Environmental Issues in Southern Africa; Environmental Field Study in Namibia)
- Chemistry (Environmental Chemistry)
- English (First Year Writing Seminar: Energy & Waste)
- Environmental Studies and Sciences (Environment & Society; Geology; Rocky Mountain Ecology Field Research)
- History (Global Environmental History; Natural Disasters; Disease & Epidemics; Nature & War)
- Interdepartmental (Geographic Information Systems)
- International Studies (Global Ecopolitics; Politics of Migration)
- Latin American and Latinx Studies (Intro to Latin American and Latinx Studies; Memphis Cartonera Sustainable Publishing House)
- Philosophy (Environmental Ethics)
- Political Science (Urban Politics & Policy)
- Physics (Science of Climate Change)
- Religious Studies (The Bible and Environment; The Bible and Food; Socially Engaged Buddhism)
- Search (Humanities 201: sections taught by Profs. Bakewell, Jackson, or Loth)
- Urban Studies (Intro to Urban Studies; Asian Urbanization Through Cinema)
Internships and Community Partnerships
Faculty and staff supervise sustainability-focused research fellowships, Rhodes Student Associate positions, internships, and independent research (many of which count as academic credit, with the exception of RSA opportunities)
- Agricenter
- ARK Farms
- Bike Walk Tennessee
- BLDG Memphis
- Bridges
- CAESER
- Church Health
- Clean Memphis
- Cooper Young Farmers Market
- Crop Trust
- Ducks Unlimited
- FedEx
- Loeb Properties
- Memphis Botanical Garden
- Memphis Farmers Market
- Memphis Light Gas and Water
- Memphis River Parks
- Memphis Tilth
- Memphis Zoo
- Overton Park Conservancy
- Planned Parenthood
- Project Green Fork
- Shelby County Office of Sustainability
- Shelby Farms Park Conservancy
- Wolf River Conservancy