While Bob Willard’s book The Sustainability Champion’s Guidebook: How to Transform Your Company is more geared toward companies transitioning to sustainability from a not so sustainable model (i.e. corporate companies implementing sustainable practices into their successful business plan), this book also relates to any organization, large or small, by providing seven practices of sustainability champions…. Read more »
Month: October 2012
More Experience Raises Awareness
The dry, hot, and muggy summer is slowly coming to an end as we prepare for football, a new semester, and buying overpriced school books. I am a little sad that my internship will also be ending soon but I have learned so much this summer I could not be happier. The readings required to… Read more »
Waste Not, Want Not
A few months ago, a friend of mine introduced me to the concept of “food diving.” He and I will wait until local businesses close and essentially dumpster dive for food; usually vegetables, fruits, and sometimes bread-related products, that have been thrown out because either a company doesn’t deem it viable over the weekend or… Read more »
Learning The Natural Step
I am so pleased to be joining the Center for a Sustainable Future as a Sustainability Fellow this year. I work in environmental sociology with a focus on children. After becoming a mother nearly six years ago, my worldview shifted and I realized that the cliché, ‘the children are our future’ (thanks Whitney for that one),… Read more »
“Event planned to spark innovation”
The South Bend Tribune recently ran a nice profile piece on the Willow Wetherall, who has a Fellowship with the Center for a Sustainable Future this year. She is planning an Ignite! event for Thursday, March 28, 2013 in South Bend. Read about her and her plans on the Tribune website HERE or download the article… Read more »
Cutting Down Natural Resource Usage
As books are generally made from trees, many of the projects I work on tend to have a direct relationship with our leafy friends. This summer I was able to work on one of the company’s most successful software projects to date. The success of this project will allow the company to accept ~25,000 more… Read more »
The Personal Journey of a Locavore
Four weeks ago, Going Local week introduced me to the local food movement. The challenge of eating at least one Indiana food per day for one week increased my awareness of what I was choosing for the meals I created for my family and me. For seven days, I deliberately ate foods that were produced… Read more »