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Tag Archives: environmental
Juggling and Balancing the Values of Everyday Life
I want to buy local and organic, but if I can’t find food that is both, do I buy local or organic? I believe in supporting local businesses, but if I can only find the notebook with recycled paper at … Continue reading
New Students and Sustainability
On the final day of the two-day new student orientation, students are outside of the Main Lounge in the Iowa Memorial Union for the information fair. Doors are kept closed, keeping the anticipation high, as members from dozens of University … Continue reading
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Iowa City Summer of Solutions
Guest blogger Eleanor Marshall with Iowa City Summer of Solutions: It doesn’t really seem like ten students working in rented office space in the University of Iowa’s Seamans Center can stand up to the world’s problems: mountain top removal, deforestation, … Continue reading
An evening at the UI Greenhouse
Unless you’ve had a biology course, you may have never noticed that the top floor of the Biology Building East is a greenhouse. To kick off the spring, honors students gathered in the greenhouse to learn how to grow plants … Continue reading
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
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
Welcome to Earth Month at the University of Iowa!
April 1 is the beginning of Earth Month and that means loads of activities and events on The University of Iowa campus. We’ve been working hard to provide opportunities for just about everyone to get involved. Whether you’re into music, … 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
Recycling and Energy Conservation in Colorado
Last week, we traveled to the University of Colorado at Boulder to learn more about that school’s award-winning recycling program. One of the first campus programs in the nation, U Colorado recycling was established in the mid-1970’s and has now … 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