Permaculture is a permanent solution to our unsustainable agriculture system and our general way of living. To implement permaculture is to work with ecology in such a way that we leave the Earth more beautiful than when we found it. Read on to learn five things you may not already know about this technique:
The MIU Green Iowa AmeriCorps team, funded primarily by the state of Iowa, is being renewed for a second year, with a continued focus on promoting sustainability awareness, performing energy audits, and creating a greener community.
Recently MIU Sustainable Living professor Lonnie Gamble visited Hawaii in an effort to continue developing his vision for a Hawaiian MIU Sustainable Living college and eco-village. During his visit he gave a talk to community members of Kauai about the sustainability revolution and how it’s dramatically changing the way we see and interact with the world.
The first video (Part 1) features a heart-warming introduction to Lonnie’s talk, along with the group being led in song by Puna Kalama Dawson, an expert on ancient Hawaiian wisdom. Here is an excerpt from Puna’s talk in Part...
Buckminster Fuller understood the need for a move to tiny houses. Unfortunately for Fuller (and the rest of us), he was 80 years ahead of his time.
In the past 10 years, tiny houses have become extremely trendy, and not without good reason. The real estate market has proven to be turbulent, to say the least. Down-sizing to live within your means is a concept that is increasingly popular not only among millennials, but with their aging baby boomer parents as well.
Tiny houses – compact, single family...
Sustainability experts from around the country gathered at Maharishi International University (MIU) for the university’s first annual Colloquy on Deep Sustainability held June 19–21 on the MIU campus.
In the coming year, the MIU Sustainable Living department will be launching a new class that will introduce students to the “Maker” movement and the growing culture of DIY (do it yourself) technology. Some might ask, “how do electronics, robotics and 3D printing fit into the concept of sustainability?”<!–more–>
When thinking about “sustainable living,” many of us visualize organic farming, natural building and solar energy. However, unlike the “back to the land” movement of the 1970s, the new generation of “tiny house” dwellers and organic farmers depend heavily on...
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...
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...
The decor for EcoJam was simple: a black runway and large tree branches, painted white, on stands. The clothing was anything but.
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.”
