The Sustainable Carolina Podcast

In this episode, we sit down with David Gorelick, a postdoctoral researcher at the Center on Financial Risk in Environmental Systems (CoFiRES). Gorelick and Abigail Brewer (podcast host) begin by reflecting on their time studying abroad together on the Galápagos Islands as undergraduate students. They discuss Gorelick's academic journey, and how, no matter how hard he tried, he just couldn&ap...

*Please note: This episode contains discussions around anxiety, depression, and eating disorders. Some individuals are making food choices based on carbon footprint, according to Melissa Munn-Chernoff, assistant professor for the Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders (CEED) at UNC-Chapel Hill. After UNC CEED Founding Director Cynthia Bulik approached Munn-Chernoff about a study to better under...

In the first episode of the new season, Chief Sustainability Officer Mike Piehler talks about the collaborations and partnerships that make campus sustainability work possible. Piehler discusses the significance of the team's two recently published plans, the Climate Action Plan and the Water Plan. The episode concludes with a conversation about how students can get involved on campus to buil...

I’m Vik Agabekov, the Program Manager for Sustainable Carolina and this week I am joined by our Chief Sustainability Officer and Director of the UNC Institute for the Environment, Mike Piehler.  We are going in depth on the flurry of sustainability news that happened in April   and unpacking the transition to sustainable Carolina, outlining the Climate Action Plan Draft, and looking behind the sce...