UP Landscapes exhibit at the Beaumier Center at NMU
A new art exhibit, “U.P. Mosaic: A Working Landscape and its People” will open this month on the Northern Michigan University campus. Although the information is not yet up on the Beaumier Upper...
View ArticleLiving Sustainably? The case of burning wood
The coming of the colder weather means that the wood stove in my living room has been brought back to life, and I have spent several nights already this fall watching the fire flickering through its...
View ArticleDollarocracy and transitions to sustainability
John Nichols and Robert McChesney have a new book out, Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America. They discuss the many problems created by the infusion of massive...
View ArticleWendell Berry: Writing the Poetry and Economics of Ecological Responsibility
[This is a post from Katie Snyder, a PhD student in Rhetoric and Technical Communication here at Tech. This was an assignment for our Ecological Economics course.] As far as I can tell, there’s not...
View ArticleMini-films on sustainable agriculture
PBS is hosting a new series of very short (3 minute) films called “The Lexicon of Sustainability“, discussing topics such as the local-vs.-organic debate, food waste, and Community Supported...
View ArticleBringing Solar Energy Technology to Campus
Have you ever used solar energy to charge your laptop or cellphone? Have you ever had the chance to watch a battery’s charging meter go up as it takes in power from the sun? Would you like to learn...
View ArticleTech Forward! On Sustainability & Resilience
Michigan Tech has ambitious plans to address the future of education, the contexts in which education operates, and the objectives and aims that a University education serves, given the expected...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Managing Split Incentives as a Better Way to be Energy Efficient While Renting?
Brendan Beecham is an undergraduate Computer Science major at Michigan Tech. He can be reached at blbeecha@mtu.edu. Understanding the Need In the present-day variable economy, split incentives could...
View ArticleTiny House Living at MTU
The latest Humans of Michigan Tech story features Sydney, an undergrad who lives in an ambulance turned tiny home. The story barely touches the surface of the environmental, economic, and personal...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Giving farmers a new crop: Solar Farms and expanding BTM methods for farmers
This is a guest post from Lena Stenvig, an undergraduate student at Michigan Tech. Lena is studying Computer Science and minoring in Environmental Studies. Lena took the photos included in this blog...
View Article
