By Christina Falso, Staff writer
Derek Martin, the Sustainability coordinator hosted a panel with four Susquehanna alumni to discuss sustainability and environmental change on Susquehanna’s campus, in the U.S., and throughout the world.
During the event, which was held on April 25, each alumnus on the panel stressed the need to be more environmentally friendly and each gave their own viewpoints and perspectives on how we all can help the earth and the environment around us.
Alex Flack, Susquehanna alumnus of 2009 who works at Keystone Energy Solar Services LLC.,, said that there are so many sides to being sustainable and there just isn’t one specific definition. The panel collectively agreed that sustainability can be briefly defined as ideas to find efficient ways to benefit from the earth. “We need to have an open-minded view on sustainability,” Pam Frontino, Susquehanna alumna of 2007 and assistant director of leadership and engagement and the JCCE, said.
A discussion revolved around how we in society can truly be more sustainable. “It is through redirecting our values,” Flack said. Flack said that this change would be made through our education system.
The panel lead into how we need to be held more accountable for our actions and start doing “the little things” to help our community and society.
For example, recycling, reducing the amount of red meat we buy, overspending on materialistic things, can and will factor into how society can be better, and how we can leave the earth in a healthy state of mind for decades to come.