Due to positive response, Wednesday, May 13th, saw the second Sustainable Living department student caucus held on MUM campus. Organized by Sustainable Living department administrator Gerrie Stood and hosted by Dr. Travis Cox, the caucus allowed students to voice their opinions regarding campus an program issues that mattered most to them. Prominent students such as Heather Caldwell (tiny house builder and soon to be MUM graduate) and Alexandra Pomeroy (former student and Green Iowa Americorps logistics coordinator) offered valuable suggestions about how to improve the Sustainable...
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Dr. Yukio Hatoyama, prime minister of Japan in 2009–2010, will deliver the commencement address on May 23 and will be awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.
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As a part of the MIU Sustainable Living department’s Distinguished Lecture Series, Richard Register, a MIU Visiting Scholar, spoke about his solution for humanity’s environmental problems: ecocities.
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Douglas Tuers, a member of Green Iowa AmeriCorps at MIU, coordinated and moderated a discussion about the environment and spirituality with a panel consisting of MIU’s Dr. Travis Cox, Dr. Evan Finkelstein, recent Sustainable Living graduate Pia Fritsch, and guests Father Thomas Miller and his wife Donna Miller discuss how religion and spirituality have affected the environment through the course of history. They delve deeply into what they believe has led to the current state of our spiritual relationship with the environment. They cover topics such as how...
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UPDATE: Watch the entire lecture below!
For the first time ever, Iowans can leave a legacy of healthy food to the next generation, making way for a cleaner planet, sustainable food farms and thriving rural economies. Suzan Erem, co-founder and president of the Sustainable Iowa Land Trust (SILT) will explain how this statewide nonprofit is creating a whole new way to own farmland and “feed the world.”
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STC, or Science and Technology of Consciousness, is a rite of passage for new Maharishi University of Managment undergraduates. The course details the basics of MIU founder Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s theories of consciousness and sets up a solid foundation for the Consciousness-Based curriculum to come.
This may all sound serious but, during the final class celebration, the students showed just how fun it can be.
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