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 »
Entries by Krista Bailey
“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 »
Working hard and staying cool
I stayed very busy this summer with my internship duties but it was fun to be working for a publication like Indiana Living Green as there is always something new to do every day. I worked on a list of environmental jargon/concepts by defining what they are. I have covered E-coli, Asian carp, white-nose syndrome,… Read more »
Slowly, a sustainable revolution (#9)
Scott Russell Sanders asserts that “The words “community,” “communion,” and “communicate” all derive from “common,” and two syllables of “common” grow from separate roots, the first meaning together or next to, the second having to do with barter or exchange.“ When I read this, it placed the image of Unity Gardens inside my head. At… Read more »
Bridging the Divide
In terms of sustainability, The Natural Step’s sustainability system condition #4 states that, as a society, we must reduce and eventually eliminate our contribution that systematically undermine people’s ability to meet their basic needs. I believe that working at Unity Gardens doesn’t undermine people’s ability to meet their needs; it offers them a way to… Read more »
Community Supported Goodness (3)
I feel like I should describe community supported agriculture a little bit more since I’ve not in previous posts. The entire point of community-supported agriculture (CSA) is to get to know your farmer, while getting to truly know your food – where it grows and how it grows. While we shop the supermarkets, up and… Read more »
A Chance to Experience
The German novelist and poet, Herman Hesse, once wrote that “next to the hunger to experience a thing, men have perhaps no stronger hunger than to forget” And what does that have to do with a sustainability internship? Though this was not likely the context that Hesse wrote his words, I believe this perspective gives… Read more »
Do Something
What are you going to do about it? This is what a COPS (Communities Organized for Public Service) organizer asked Virginia Ramirez about what she was going to do about her widowed neighbor dying of a preventable illness due to no heat retention/lack of weatherproofing in her home. Despite paying her bills and taxes on… Read more »