By: Sam Benshoof, INFORUM DETROIT LAKES, Minn. – Dennis Jacobs’ and Karen Branden’s swimming pool isn’t just good for a few laps. The couple, who went to great lengths designing an energy-efficient home, use the pool to help heat the rest of the house. Jacobs, a professor of multidisciplinary studies at Minnesota State University Moorhead, and Branden, an associate professor […]
Do you: Enjoy being outside? Recycle? Drive a Subaru? Need volunteer hours as a result of an unspecified indiscretion? Want to help make your campus greener? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you belong on the Campus Green Team (email list serve)! It doesn’t even require an ongoing commitment. The Green Team list serve will notify you about upcoming […]
A faculty and staff team attended the Sustainability Across the Curriculum Workshop March 21 – 23 at North Hennepin Community College. The team consisted of Shawn Garrett, Chemistry; Joe Herbst, Sustainability Coordinator; Steve Lindaas, Physics; Mazz Marry, Biosciences; Claudia Murphy, Philosophy and Women’s & Gender Studies; and Alison Wallace, Biosciences. This was the second year that MnSCU has supported this […]
The Green Dragons will be extending the Caught Green-handed event to next week, March 25-28! If one of the Green Dragons catches you recycling, you’ll get a RecycleMania sticker, and they’ll take your name and email address to be entered for $5-$15 gift cards. It is also the last week of the RecycleMania competition, so put your recyclables in the […]
Please reserve Friday, March 1, for the first “Free Lunch/Free Conversations” event hosted by the Physics Department and the Faculty Development Center. All interested in discussing sustainability program ideas and potential opportunities for collaboration are welcome. Stop by between 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. in Hagen 317. Lunch provided. RSVP facdev@mnstate.edu.