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Heather Caldwell, a student in MIU’s Sustainable Living department, has been a busy bee. Ever since taking the Tiny Houses course, Heather has had her sights set on creating a sustainable community for single mothers. “The month-long course covers a plethora of topics ranging from design and materials to building Tiny House Communities and off-grid living,” according to Heather. The first step in making her big Tiny House dream happen was to try it out with her own family.
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Flo Bannout, manager of the Sustainable Living department’s bike shop, worked with MIU Campus Security to schedule an abandoned bike pickup. With a team that consisted of Rich Dana, Flo and others they were able to pickup 53 bikes around the university’s campus! The baseline criteria for choosing the bikes was based on if they had completely rusted chains and 2 flat tires.
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Following his Seed Starting workshop, Sascha Kyssa of Naturewise Academy held a workshop about starting and maintaining your own vermicompost.
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We got an on-the-road telephone update from Justin Cutter in late February 2015, as he was driving to southern California to start his next 6-week tour of schools. Justin teaches organic, sustainable farming to students of all ages right from his 25-foot box truck—his mobile greenhouse, where students feel, smell, taste, and water his plants. Justin teaches people how to use limited space to grow nutritious foods that require the least resources.
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Sustainable Living students from MIU visited Iowa City’s Englert Theatre to listen to a talk given by Vandana Shiva, entitled Eco-Feminism: Women in Defense of the Earth. Vandana is the University of Iowa’s chosen Distinguished Lecturer of 2015. As a world-renowned environmental advocate and activist, Vandana Shiva presented an incredibly coherent and moving speech about the effects of large corporations are destroying our natural ecological systems. The message she conveyed was about how a more loving, nurturing and holistic approach toward the environment is needed for it’s survival.
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Students in a course on global sustainability traveled to the Iowa capitol in Des Moines last month to lobby lawmakers about environmental policy.
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EnvironmentalScience.org has released its first annual Top Environmental Science Schools rankings — and we are excited to announce that Maharishi International University has been ranked #4 on their list.
The rankings are based on published surveys, student data, and other school and career data collected through several sources, including The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).
“Our school has one of the higher percentages of its students who want to make a career in sustainability. That reflects very positively on the environmental...
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Sascha Kyssa is a MIU graduate and all-around agriculture and horticulture powerhouse. Sascha is now holding seed starting workshops that are open to the public. The first workshop was held February 18th, 2015. It covered topics such as seed germination techniques, how to transplant sprouts, ideal soil mixes, types of soil, and most importantly, how to grow sustainably.
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Maharishi International University has been announced as a recipient of the Silver Level Student Actions Awards for the 2014 Fall Semester. The award honors undergraduate schools for student demonstrated leadership, momentum and impact of green, caring and healthy actions. Silver Level schools have student leaders committed to student and group activation across campus through focused challenges and delivering on impact targets.
The Student Actions Awards celebrate student leadership, student activation, student initiatives and overall impact. The awards are based on a methodology that celebrates progress, momentum, and impact for...
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Students and faculty members from the Sustainable Living department at Maharishi International University visited Des Moines, Iowa’s capital, on February 17th for the annual Environmental Lobby Day/REAP Day at the Capitol.
With speakers such as Senator Dvorsky (D- Johnson), Senator Johnson (R-Osceola), Margo Underwood (Chair; Iowa Natural Resources Commission), Mark Ackelson (President Emeritus; Iowa natural Heritage Foundation) and Ralph Rosenberg (Executive Director; Iowa Environmental Council), the students were able to get a strong sense of how legislators and lobbyists feel about current environmental issues,...
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