• The Sustainable Development and CSB teams posing in front of the Reflection Pool at Angkor Wat
    Cambodia The Sustainable Development and CSB teams posing in front of the Reflection Pool at Angkor Wat
  • Charlie Baldwin, Connor Luther, Eleni O'flarity,  Kevin Hoogenboom, Amberlyn Alualu, Emma Fried, and Melanie Grinnel at our favorite taco stand!
    Nicaragua Charlie Baldwin, Connor Luther, Eleni O'flarity, Kevin Hoogenboom, Amberlyn Alualu, Emma Fried, and Melanie Grinnel at our favorite taco stand!
  • Fracking Well Pad
    Pennsylvania Fracking Fracking Well Pad
  • The people in the rural village do not own cars so they must use other means of transportation and find alternative yet efficient ways of carrying heavy items along the dirt road and in the hot sun.
    Nicaragua The people in the rural village do not own cars so they must use other means of transportation and find alternative yet efficient ways of carrying heavy items along the dirt road and in the hot sun.

Mark Orrs

Lehigh University Sustainable Development - Mark Orrs
After 6 years as a candidate in the PhD in Sustainable Development Program at Columbia University, Mark Orrs began as Professor of Practice and Director of Sustainable Development at Lehigh University in August 2012. His primary research interests have been in African economic growth and development, with approaches from the perspectives of health economics and gender and education. He is co-author of two articles on HIV/AIDS stigma, which were published in major public health journals. At present, he is completing work on his dissertation, which examines the impacts on rural households of vision restoration through surgical cataract extraction. He studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science, from which he received a Diploma in Economics with Distinction before being accepted into the Sustainable Development program at Columbia. In 2011 he co-founded the non-profit organization Harambee USA, Inc. (www.harambeeusa.com), which cares for and educates former street children.When you think of Bermuda, a rich, warm, vacation destination comes to mind. But on a closer look Bermuda is troubled by unsustainability from its energy generation and consumption to its waste management. It harms the people on the island and the marine life. Our focus is to research the possibility of developing wave energy systems and farm optimization to educate high school students on sustainability and this rising technology
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