John Collins, member of faculty reports: Great celebrations here in our new net-zero Sustainable Living building. I’m in my office and eight minutes ago the electricity recharging my lap top was a thermo-nuclear reaction in the sun. A second ago it was a puff of wind passing the building. The roof is held up by [...]
The grand opening for the Sustainable Living Center is tomorrow, Friday 20th at 11 am. Tours will be available from 1-4pm The Sustainable Living Center(SLC) has been featured in many local news channels WHO TV 13: Featured on their Renew Iowa segment– the building is described to be “as unique as the school”. P
Focusing on the Congo is extremely important right now as it has terrible problems. About one thirds the size of the USA with a population of 71 million, the Congo is mostly a forested country in that straddles the equator in Africa and has a small section of the West coast. It has an ongoing [...]
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
Over the summer, I received a ‘random’ Facebook message from a friend of mine, Todd Urick, who I knew back in my community media days in Davis, California. Todd was incredulous in wondering if I lived in the same Fairfield, Iowa as the solar-powered local low power FM radio station KRUU 100.1 that he had been helpi
How do you love to live? Are you on your way in the unending process of defining, redefining and refining your own personal answer to this question, or have you not yet begun this process? Wherever you lie on the continuum, one event that helped me in my own answering process was the life envisioning [...]
Do you know about the MUM Bike Shop? If you are an MUM student and you have an issue with your bike, there is a cheap or very nearly free place you can go take your bike to get it serviced or to work on it yourself. This summer, I sat down with Mattie Kennedy, [...]
I’m here, I’m a new Sustainable Living student at MUM. I’ve packed up, I’ve said my goodbyes (for now) and I’ve moved to Fairfield Iowa to get my education in sustainability. Now, where is it? Where is the sustainability? The answer is: Sustainability is all around you. Rather, your opportunity to experience sustainabi
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
Students in the Permaculture and Design course crafted an edible food forest located just across the street north of the Dreier Building. Designed to integrate sustainable education, food production, and community involvement in a natural setting, the forest is an ever-evolving work in progress, said student Ashley Smith, presid
