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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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