Overarching Aim
To provide sustainability education and programs for a broad regional, national, and international community
Goals
Complete the proposed Urban Remote Microgrid and Sustainable Neighborhood demonstration site, featuring UAB’s Solar Decathlon competition house
Establish UAB as a trusted hub of sustainability information
Develop and share educational publications that address everyday sustainability measures for a broad audience, including individual, residential, corporate, and municipal
Strategies
- 1.Develop formal and informal partnerships with area municipalities and other stakeholders to support sustainability and resilience initiatives
- 2.Establish online community-based sustainability courses
- 3.Build a more effective and user-friendly website for the UAB Sustainability program and raise the program’s social media presence to national prominence
- 4.Initiate tracking mechanisms for all new project partnerships to assess overall impact of the program
