By Jane Wise, sustainability student, IU South Bend Does Small Talk Make A Big Difference? In the majority of American homes, a specific place exists where a family can discuss, share experiences, and work through issues. Perhaps this place is the living room, the sitting room, or even the family car. While a family can… Read more »
Uncategorized
Tis the Season… for intensive sustainable thought
By Angela Cormican Intern, Center for a Sustainable Future “It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without ribbons or boxes or bags.” Rate? Measurements? To reflect on the 7 practices at right, and answer to the level of growth or to grade the internship experience and structure, one image comes to mind:… Read more »
12 STEPS TO A MORE SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
By Angie Cormican Intern, Center for a Sustainable Future at IU South Bend In personal reflection, and when speaking with peers about their introduction to sustainability and experiences, there is an overwhelmingly shared sense: emotion that motivates and promotes positive change. Learning about sustainability is like undergoing a 12 step recovery program for addiction…we are… Read more »
Cutting Down Your Yard: Pollution & Chemicals
By Jakob Barry, guest blogger Pollution isn’t something that’s generally found in the yard and garden but depending on how a property is managed it may be more widespread than realized. How so? As a homeowner maintains his property he may unknowingly use certain methods for achieving a goal which actually hurt the environment. The result… Read more »
Things that Persist in Nature
By Chris Philips, Sustainability Studies intern Hello, Chris here. I want to share with you some of the things that we are doing at Bertrand Farm as we continue to make progress in adopting the FSSD framework, provided by The Natural Step. As we move forward in sustainability, one of our guiding objectives is to… Read more »
Wine Bottle Edging- DIY
By Maggie Kent, Sustainability Project Director After a long day of gardening in the hot sun what’s better then a nice glass of wine? Nothing. Wine and gardening is basically a match made in heaven. But what do you do with all those empty wine bottles? You COULD recycle them, but that’s not very fun…. Read more »
Social Sustainability
By Michaela Kapala, Sustainability Project Developer I first learned about the Center for a Sustainable Future through a guest lecture given by Professor Mike Keen, director of the Center. He briefly spoke to my class about the how the Center was working to create a more sustainable and “green” campus. Since then, I started to… Read more »
E-Waste: our community, the earth, and the lives of others
By: Hailey Hennessy, Intern for the Center for a Sustainable Future When thinking of Ewaste it is hard to not think of System Condition number 4 from The Natural Step Framework. To fulfill this condition is to not subject people to conditions that systemically undermine their capacity to meet their needs. The bottom line, we… Read more »
Sustainable pig farming
-By Chris Phillips, Sustainability Studies Intern I want to share with you some of the things that I have learned so far in raising our pigs at Bertrand Farm. I have to say that it has been fun experience raising the pigs and watching them play. It has also been a learning experience for me,… Read more »
Progressing toward a sustainable society
Hello, my name is Chris. I am one of the interns working at Bertrand Farm this summer. I am currently a senior at Indiana University South Bend, with a major in psychology and a minor in sustainability. My future goals are to get my master’s degree in social work at IUSB and to become a… Read more »