by | Jun 17, 2016 | Capstone Opportunities, Food Justice, Internships, Managed Systems, Social Systems
Position Internship Program Goal This internship provides firsthand experience to students with a desire for learning the process of growing food on both a large (row farming) and/or small (hoop and green houses) scale operation while designing processes that conserve...
by Linden Cheek | Jun 8, 2016 | Climate, Definitions, Energy, Green Living, Greenhouse Gasses, Policy, Systems Thinking, Technology, Transportation
Climate Change is a big problem. It is so big, in fact, that individual action—while necessary—is not enough to stop the dire predictions of a warmer world from becoming reality. It turns out that as Americans, only about 40% of our 24 metric ton personal carbon...
by | May 30, 2016 | Agriculture, Features, Food Justice, Green Jobs, Managed Systems
A Solution for Sourcing Locally Produced Foods Recent trends illustrate consumer preferences are gravitating towards locally raised foods, including not only fruits and vegetables, but various meat products as well. This gravitation towards locally sourced foods is...
by Linden Cheek | May 27, 2016 | Climate, Definitions, Greenhouse Gasses, Natural Systems, Policy, Social Systems, Systems Thinking
In any discussion on Climate Change, the idea of 2°C threshold of temperature increase gets thrown around a lot. Everyone seems to know that we mustn’t let our world get more than 2°C hotter. But few people know why. Despite how often this threshold is...
by Linden Cheek | Apr 22, 2016 | Food Justice, Natural Systems
Weeds. There are few things that irk Americans fond of immaculate green lawns and flower beds more than the snowball tops of hated weeds. But before you tear out your hair when these pertinacious rascals start popping up all over the place, take a moment to read 3...
by Linden Cheek | Apr 11, 2016 | Office for Sustainability, Systems Thinking, Triple Bottom Line
A Quick Look at What it Means to Be “Sustainable” Turn to the person next to you and ask them to define “sustainability”. Seriously, do it. If that person is like the majority (and statistically most of us are) they will respond by muttering...
