An amazing amount of ‘Green’ initiatives are happening in Iowa. This has been highlighted in solar-powered, KRUU FM’s 20 part radio series, Dream Green. The program about green energy policy that included David Osterberg and myself can be found here. David is a veteran of Iowa energy policy making. He reviews how we became
SL Saturday Redesign! « Community Permaculture. A group of MUM students have successfully pioneered a new format for classes held within the sustainable living department. Saturday classes are now community development days! This past Saturday, our ecology class spent the morning clearing out our new greenhouse and preparing a
Block 8 saw Sustainable Living staff member Robbie Gongwer make the leap to a faculty role when he coordinated the Sustainable Living Marketing Team(SL 408). The four week class was designed around the principles of high performance team building, including interviewing prospective class members and vetting them based on their
“Anything is possible, we just have to figure out how we’re going to make it happen. When I was at Maharishi University of Management I became pretty convinced that the only thing standing between me and my goals was my own creativity,” says Justin Cutter, Maharishi University of Management Alumni and co-creator of Compass
Beginning in 2007, a large area behind the on-campus greenhouses has been serving the Department of Sustainable Living as a field class for students whose focus is on sustainable agriculture and mini-farming (such as family farming). The project, called the “student garden,” is designed as a large circle composed of many gro
“It’s a great opportunity to export our knowledge that we learned in the Sustainable Living program to a location where the energy costs are staggering,” Mr. Gongwer said. Several current and former students, and Sustainable Living faculty member Lonnie Gamble spent a month in a small village on Admiralty Island in Alaska
