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Author Archives: Giselle
Certificate in Sustainability Growing in Popularity
Enrollment in the Certificate in Sustainability is up to 98 this week, making it the second most popular certificate program at the University of Iowa. Can’t say I’m surprised. Sustainability is a term popping up around campus, in the community … Continue reading
Power Shift 2011 lunch and learn
Thank you to all who attended the Power Shift lunch and learn! Just before Earth Day, 36 University of Iowa students and one student from West High converged with 10,000 other students from across the country at Power Shift 2011 … Continue reading
Mosaic Foundations- revised
I was standing on a million little pieces, behind the Northside Prep School Student Garden in Chicago. Other students who attended the Midwest Real Food Challenge Conference joined me and the gardeners from the highschool to construct a mosaic foundation … Continue reading
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Sowing the Seeds of a Fair Farm Bill
This Friday April 8 from 4:00- 4:45 student gardeners will join community members and legislators for a workday devoted to a fair Farm Bill in 2012. The UIEC Student Garden is teaming up with the Food and Water Watch to host an … Continue reading
Mosaic Foundations – a real food conference
I was standing on a million little pieces. (I promise this has nothing to do with outrage from Oprah’s book club and swear I didn’t make this up.) The million little pieces were fragments of cement and gravel, remnants of … Continue reading
Swapping Frocks vs. Urge to Shop
If you’re a Typical American, you throw away 67.9 pounds of used clothing and rags each year. Collectively, Americans discard two quadrillion pounds (2,000,000,000,000,000) of used clothing and textiles into the landfill each year. A friend I know told me … Continue reading
Sustaining your sweet tooth- The taste of Fair Trade chocolate
As I chew on a piece of ‘mint chocolate chip ice cream gum’, I wonder, “Where did this come from?” A few nights ago, a group of UI students living in Burge Residence Hall tried to answer a similar question … Continue reading
Posted in Environmental, Green Event, Lifestyle and Health, Uncategorized
Tagged Burge Hall, chocolate, coffee, environmental, fair trade, giselle bruskewitz, housing, kate kosartes, Lifestyle and health LOHAS, local food, residence life, sarah campanella, sustainability, UIEC, University of Iowa
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10/10/10: Moving Greenhouses and Ideals to a New Place
Last Sunday , 10/10/10, was a day filled with climate action and awareness, student and community activism, as well as spending time with old friends and new acquaintances alike.
On the Pentacrest under a cloudless, sunny sky, over 100 passionate people congregated for the 350.org day of climate action and awareness founded by author and environmentalist, Bill McKibben. Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Green Event, Volunteers
Tagged local food, student activity, student garden, sustainability, UIEC, University of Iowa
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