MIU Blogs
Taking the High-Road on Turkey Day
With a tradition as deeply established as Thanksgiving, taking some extra time to change our habits toward more sustainable practices can seem overwhelming. What if Aunt Bessy comes to the feast only to find real, organic cranberry sauce in place of the sugar-laden gelatin product she is so accustomed to? We here at the MIU Sustainable Living Department have sewn together this guide to a more sustainable Thanksgiving that will be tighter than the sweater Aunt Bessy so kindly made for you...
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AASHE, the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, hosted its 2015 conference in Minneapolis, MN, and we had the pleasure of being one of their exhibitors! Beginning on October 25 and running through to October 28th, this conference was all about different sustainability-minded organizations coming together to share their ideas, network, and have fun while doing it. Held in the prestigious Minneapolis Convention Center, it was truly a once-in-a-lifetime event, with its largest turnout ever of 2,200+ attendees!
Set up in booth #213, we had...
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Farmers selling their produce at the Fairfield Farmers Market on a Saturday late last month received a nice surprise when MIU students came bearing gifts.
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John Jolliffe, the executive director of Jim Carrey’s Better U Foundation spoke to Dr. Thimmaiah’s organic agriculture class last week. He talked about how the Better U Foundation is helping farmers around the world learn how to better utilize the tools and skills they have to yield better results and be more sustainable. He also talked about creativity, particularly about a concept known as imaginative intelligence, which is a perspective that he has found to enhance one’s creative potential.
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Most people in our community recognize Prana Miller for being a joyful, kind and charismatic person. However, what some may not know about him is that he’s not just an awesome person, he’s also an incredibly knowledgeable and skilled renewable energy specialist.
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Robert Abreu grew up in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Birmingham, Alabama, in a culturally and linguistically diverse family. From an early age he has been passionate about learning languages, which helped him bridge cultures in his family and gain insight into others. French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Afrikaans, Arabic, and Swahili are some of the languages he learned.
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A two-page case study of MIU’s Sustainable Living Center is being included in a new 160-page PDF book published by the United Nations that helps to “inspire, encourage, and support universities to develop and implement their own transformative strategies for establishing green, resource-efficient, and low carbon campuses.”
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Every January and every August is a precious time for all of us here at Maharishi International University. During those months we have an influx of all-new students, whose presence helps make the quality of life on our campus all the more rich and exciting. We are always so thrilled to have these new faces around that we feel it’s worth celebrating!
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A couple of months ago I caught up with one of the Sustainable Living department’s most successful graduates, Samantha Thomas. Back then, as the executive director of DreamChange, Samantha was in the process of wrapping up their first annual Love Summit in Portland, OR, “an annual event that brings together the business community and public to explore the missing link in business and sustainability education: love.”
They recently released a video with highlights from the event, which you can watch below. Love is the answer, always!
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Appachanda Thimmaiah and Sascha Kyssa stopped by KRUU FM’s cooking show, Great Taste, to discuss the benefits of wild edibles and to prepare Lamb’s Quarters Pakoras.
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