Confessions of a Vegetarian
By Austin Holmes, Sustainability Office I stare down at the miscellaneous, multifarious bowl of rice, beans, lentils, and quinoa. How did I become a vegetarian? Let me tell you. I […]
By Austin Holmes, Sustainability Office I stare down at the miscellaneous, multifarious bowl of rice, beans, lentils, and quinoa. How did I become a vegetarian? Let me tell you. I […]
By Jayashree Lavanyan, Edible Campus Garden Steward In case you had not noticed with the snow still falling, it’s spring! And with the last frost date less than a month […]
By Sarah Martinez, Student Sustainability Ambassador Recycling is easy. Getting students to recycle correctly is not. So, the Sustainability Office created a force of well-informed students and staff to help […]
By J. FitzLandry, Edible Campus Gardens Apprentice I met Kirstie Kandaris at the East entrance to the Marriott Library. We had spoken earlier in the week about meeting at the […]
By Sarah Martinez, Sustainability Ambassador I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, before you recycle you should consider reducing and reusing. In this case that means reducing the […]
By Matthew Briggs, Edible Campus Gardens Roughly 10,000 years ago humans slowed migration and began to settle the land becoming caretakers of plants. Fast forward to the year 1900, where […]
By Sarah Martinez, Student Sustainability Ambassador Here in the United States, our sewage water and our garbage are generally well managed. They run beneath our feet or in trucks on […]
By Sarah Martinez, Student Sustainability Ambassador I went waste free for a month, and here’s what happened. Helping to create the Recycling Ambassadors program, analyzing recycling behavior on campus, and […]
Originally published in @theU on Mar. 21, 2016 By the University of Utah Sustainability Office The University of Utah has announced the return of its very popular community solar energy […]
By Shaun Daniel, GCSC Research Associate When he walks this spring, Mike Christensen will be the University of Utah’s first graduate with an Interdisciplinary Graduate Certificate in Sustainability. Christensen leads […]