Tune in to Focus Carolina during morning, noon and evening drive times and on the weekends to hear stories from faculty members at UNC and find out what ignites their passion for their work. Focus Carolina is an exclusive program on 97.9 The Hill WCHL, sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Mike Piehler is a joint professor at UNC, director of the Institute of Marine Sciences, and recently became the university’s chief sustainability officer. He oversees UNC’s sustainability enterprise, and attempts to use the varied expertise of Carolina’s faculty to link sustainability practices across research, teaching and public service for North Carolina — and to champion student ideas for change.
“This means really looking hard within our University for people who are doing innovative things, have exciting ideas and will be able to help us find solutions to some problems that are pretty challenging,” he said in his Focus Carolina interview.
He is also developing a consistent plan to reach short- and long-term sustainability goals, and he chairs the Carolina Sustainability Council.
The Council will support the transition to Sustainable Carolina, a new comprehensive initiative to move Carolina’s sustainability efforts forward, including the Three Zeros Environmental Initiative, the integrated approach to reducing Carolina’s environmental footprint through three goals: net-zero water usage, zero waste to landfills and net-zero greenhouse gas emissions.
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