A young couple from Portland, Oregon recently stopped by the Sustainable Living Department on their cross country adventure that has taken them down the West coast, across the Southwest to New Orleans, up to Pennsylvania and New York, and back across the Midwest on their way home. Although Tom Walther and April Cummins drove a 1986 Ford Van, they did not burn fossil fuel on their journey. They made the entire trip fueled by waste vegetable oil.
This summer, the MIU Sustainable Living Department (SL) is in the...
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The highly esteemed Ved Nanda, LLM, gave a lecture as a part of the Sustainable Living department’s Distinguished Lecture Series on Monday, May 11th, 2015. His talk was entitled, “Making Peace With the Earth: The Good News and Bad News in 2015“, which took place in the Argiro Student Center’s Dalby Hall on MIU campus. He spoke about current social, political, economic and environmental issues from around the globe, what has been done to make things better in the past, and what still needs to change.
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Dr. Vandana Shiva is a renowned physicist, social advocate and environmental activist. She has written twenty books, her most recent being Making Peace with the Earth. She spoke with Dr. Bill Goldstein’s environmental law class with the same name, talking about the issues that are still present in our modern world and how MIU’s Sustainable Living students are the key to making a profound and lasting change within our society and the environment. It was a pleasure to speak with her and to hear what she had...
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