Eating local is getting me in touch with my inner-foodie. I am cooking more often. By cooking, I don’t mean ripping open a box of Rice-A-Roni to serve beside a chicken patty. Blech. No, I am cooking—stewing, baking, sautéing. I am experimenting with foods I hadn’t previously used. Before the growing season ended, I cooked… Read more »
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Best Practices
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 »
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 »
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 »