![Member Spotlight: Robert Boyer](https://pages.charlotte.edu/inss/wp-content/uploads/sites/568/2014/12/Robert-Boyer-191x140.jpg)
Robert Boyer is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences at UNC Charlotte. He earned his PhD in Regional Planning from…
![Summary of the December Space Working Group Meeting](https://pages.charlotte.edu/inss/wp-content/uploads/sites/568/2014/12/InnerWellbeing-470x140.png)
The discussion of well-being was led by Michael Drinkwater at the December 1, 2014 phone meeting of the Space Working Group. Michael discussed several journal…
![Member Spotlight: Helene Hilger](https://pages.charlotte.edu/inss/wp-content/uploads/sites/568/2014/12/Helene-Hilger-178x140.jpg)
Dr. Hilger is a civil engineer who was engaged in environmental engineering research and teaching at UNC Charlotte before retiring in 2012. She started out…
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by Robert Boyer, UNC Charlotte Abstract: Urban planning and improvisational comedy are not obvious companions, and on the surface they seem contradictory: Isn’t urban planning…
![INSS at the People’s Climate March](https://pages.charlotte.edu/inss/wp-content/uploads/sites/568/2014/09/CaptureSept25-386x140.jpg)
Post written by Helene Hilger How many INSSers attended the People’s Climate March? I rode with a Sierra Club-chartered bus to attend the march, arriving…
![Announcing the INSS Digital media competition "Visions of Social Sustainability"](https://pages.charlotte.edu/inss/wp-content/uploads/sites/568/2014/09/Terrace_field_yunnan_china_denoised-470x140.jpg)
The Integrated Network for Social Sustainability (INSS) is very excited to launch our film and digital media competition, “Visions of Social Sustainability.” Please see the…
![Ebola and sustainability](https://pages.charlotte.edu/inss/wp-content/uploads/sites/568/2014/08/BauschDeforestation-e1424785515595-470x140.png)
I used to work in a virology lab as a summer research assistant, and one summer I helped study the Ebola virus. This was in…
![Engineers Learning about Sustainability](https://pages.charlotte.edu/inss/wp-content/uploads/sites/568/2014/08/asce-banner-470x140.jpg)
An upcoming webinar hosted by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) is entitled Building Public Trust Through Sustainability. It is offered Wednesday August 20th…
![Corporate Idealism: an unconventional love affair](https://pages.charlotte.edu/inss/wp-content/uploads/sites/568/2014/06/34782525_e2654cc998_z-e1424785357937-470x140.jpg)
Review of Evolution of a Corporate Idealist: When Girl Meets Oil by Christine Bader Christine Bader starts off her memoir with the admission that she…
![Student video about INSS April meeting](https://pages.charlotte.edu/inss/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
One of our student workers, Aidan, put together a fun video about the April meeting, and I thought it was a nice view of the…