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Tag Archives: sustainability
Biomass Partnership Project Update
We have been working with a wide variety of folks to define how we are going to supply energy to meet our UI Vision 2020 Task 2 (2020T2) goal of greening our energy portfolio. 2020T2 requires us to be using … Continue reading
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
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
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
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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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
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
Welcome to Coe College Students!
This afternoon, Professors David Hayes and Marty St. Clair brought students and sustainability council representatives from Coe College to the University of Iowa campus to learn more about our sustainability efforts. I gave an update of activities and then we … 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