Category Archives: Outdoors

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

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Winter Bicycling Tips

You can still keep riding you bike though the winter! Here are a few tips from Michael Chamberlain, owner of the The Broken Spoke, via the Think Bicycles blog: http://www.thinkbicycles.org/2012/12/winter-riding-fun/ Chamberlain gives some tips on tires, fenders, cleaning and clothing … Continue reading

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Iowa City’s East Side Recycling Center

Last week, the Office of Sustainability (director, Liz, and interns, Giselle and Hailey) took a field trip to the East Side Recycling Center, currently under construction. At first, our trip was to satisfy our curiosity of their new wind turbine, … Continue reading

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Earth Month begins with an April trip to the Arctic

UI Earth Month was appropriately started in true Iowa style–with discussions of frigid temperatures. Lonnie Dupre, a polar explorer and outdoors extraordinaire, spoke at the Seamans Center on April 7th about his adventures traveling through the Arctic. Relaying stories based … Continue reading

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