MIU Blogs
Vacations are meant to be a time of rest and fun, a time to re-energize and discover new things. They provide the opportunity to adventure; to grow in new and exciting ways. A couple of weeks ago my fiancée Carla and I embarked on a road trip to have that kind of a summer experience, but we ended up getting a lot more out it than either of us could have imagined.
Beginning at our home in Fairfield, IA, we travelled across the US toward Santa Cruz, CA. The trip would be done over...
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Dr. Travis Cox held a talk in the MUM Sustainable Living Center in conjunction with Doug Tuers of Green Iowa AmeriCorps, where he talked about different philosophical concepts that relate to sustainability.
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Monica Moscovici spends her evenings measuring, recording, and transporting food waste from the MIU Food Service to the MIU Organic Farms, where it gets converted into compost. She also documents every step of the process to prove that it is not only sustainable, but financially feasible.
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Last week we published an article that details what our Colloquy on Deep Sustainability was all about, but now you have the chance to experience the conversations from that event for yourself! Below you’ll find audio recordings of the entire 3-day conference.
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Samantha Thomas is the Executive Director for DreamChange, a nonprofit organization whose mission is “to educate people on how to go about creating a future that is environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and socially just.” She just recently helped to put on DreamChange’s first annual Love Summit, a conference of Samantha’s own design “that brings together the business community and public to explore the missing link in business and sustainability education: love—the most likely candidate for stabilizing the economy, decelerating climate change, protecting the environment and creating positive social change...
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The term colloquy is defined as “a conversation, a theological dialogue, or a high-level serious discussion.” This is exactly what Maharishi International University’s Sustainable Living department wanted to happen regarding the concept of deep sustainability. The department’s very first Colloquy on Deep Sustainability, hosted from June 19th to June 21st, 2015, made this dream a reality.
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Momone Maley is known to many at MUM for being a very hard working student. Having been involved with many different projects at MUM ranging from farming to beekeeping, Momone has learned and achieved a lot in her time here. Now she is close to earning her MBA degree, but even with all of the responsibilities that come with earning a master’s degree she still finds time to pursue her sustainability projects. Last year she decided to dedicate her time toward breathing new life into a section of land next...
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Tom Newmark, the co-founder and chair of The Carbon Underground, a nonprofit that teaches farmers, ranchers, and corporations how to use regenerative agricultural practices to sequester carbon dioxide and possibly reverse climate change, recently presented a fascinating talk about these important issues. The talk was titled, “The Carbon Underground: A World Movement to Regenerate Soils and Reverse Climate Change”, and took place on April 15th in Dalby Hall, at the Argiro Student Center on MUM campus.
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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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Daniel Gorman has just finished his four years here at MIU and is quickly moving on to bigger and better things. Having started his own business, Bubbling Brine Brothers, Dan is set to take the fermented foods market by storm. I was able to pull him aside and talk to him briefly about his senior project, Knowledge Fair presentation and plans for post-graduate life:
What brought you to MIU Dan?
“Definitely the philosophy side of it. I had an interest in eastern philosophies like Buddhism, Zen.”
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