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Category Archives: Green Event
Orchard Planting This Weekend!
What did you do for Earth Day? Did you even know that this past Monday was Earth Day? If you forgot, make it up to Mother Nature this Friday and Saturday by planting trees on your campus! Who: Everyone! What: Plant … Continue reading
Posted in Green Event, Outdoors, Research + Discovery, Social, Volunteers
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Iowa City Encouraging Apartment/Condo Recycling
The University of Iowa has many resources on campus that encourage and help students live a more green and sustainable lifestyle. And with the beginning of RecycleMania upon us, many students are wondering what all they can do to help … Continue reading
Posted in Environmental, Green Event, Lifestyle and Health, Recycling
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Year-End Donation Drive Diverts furniture, clothes, housewares from landfill
As part of the University of Iowa Year-End Donation Drive nearly two tons of furniture, clothing, housewares, and other items were diverted from the Iowa City Landfill during Residence Hall move-out May 9 and 10. As UI students and their … Continue reading
Posted in Green Event, Volunteers
Tagged Goodwill, residence life, University of Iowa, waste diversion
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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
Iowa Water Conference – Day 2!
The second day of the Iowa Water Conference was a very busy day filled with morning plenary speakers, a poster session, and an afternoon with five different emphasis tracks. The morning speakers covered a variety of water-related topics including how … Continue reading
Iowa Water Conference – Day 1!
This year’s Iowa Water Conference is being held at Iowa State University. The conference, titled “More Water to Manage,” is a collaborative effort featuring participating conferences of Ag and the Environment, Floodplain Management, Iowa Learning Farms, Stormwater and Water Monitoring. … Continue reading
Hope for what Environmentalism Can Be
Count Basie’s April in Paris was blaring from my headphones when I almost bumped into a woman, hunched-over and making her way across Washington Street. Before seeing her, I’d forgotten her retirement complex only a few blocks from my apartment. … Continue reading
Sustainability in the Corporate World
Last week Friday, I attended the first Sustainability Student Forum at The University of Iowa. The forum’s opening remarks were made by the Net Impact’s president-elect, 2012 MBA candidate, Jon Finley, and a term he used that stuck a cord … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Business, Environmental, Green Event
Tagged Cheryl Davenport, college of engineering, Craig Just, environmental, Hailey Courtney, John Deere & Company, Jonathan Finley, Laurie Zelnio, Mission Measure, Net Impact, student, sustainability, Tippie School of Management, University of Iowa
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Dance Marathon Goes Green: Waste Diversion at one of Iowa’s Biggest Student-Led Fundraisers
Last weekend, I helped improve waste operations at Dance Marathon 17. Dance Marathon (DM) organizers wanted to lessen the environmental impact of their event so they looked to Office of Sustainability (OS) for a little guidance and a few volunteers. … Continue reading
Dance Marathon 17 is going sustainable
Friday night the Iowa Memorial Union (IMU) at University of Iowa will be abuzz with activity as the 17th Dance Marathon opens. Dancers will welcome and raise funds for the patients and families treated at University of Iowa Children’s … Continue reading