A waggle-dance warning
By: Melanie Weber; Real Food Challenge Team member In light of the hysteria surrounding sudden decline in bee populations, I found the documentary More Than Honey one that was compelling, informative...
View ArticleAnnouncing the 2nd annual Ecofeminism panel in honor of Women’s History Month...
By Michaela Steiner A student panel focusing on Ecofeminism and the future will explore connections between environmentalism and feminism in honor of Women’s History Month. The event will be held March...
View ArticleThis I Believe: Meaningful, green decisions
By Leah Payne; Zero Waste Team member I believe in the power of the consumer. I am a sophomore in college, living in my first apartment and I believe I can make meaningful decisions about what I buy....
View ArticleMore food than we can eat? America’s food waste problem
By Russell Penasa; Zero Waste Team member In January I had the opportunity to help out with the Food waste audit. After a few hours of watching plates of half eaten cheese burgers and weird...
View ArticleThis I Believe
By Chris Davis, Zero Waste Team member A focus point of my life is spirituality. I know this is a heavy word and means different things to different people. To me, spirituality is the belief that there...
View ArticleThis I Believe
My life has been woven by the theme of the unconventional. From my parents’ origins to the way I saw the ordinary things of the world, I knew that I might never quite fit in anywhere. Growing up in the...
View ArticleAn FLC Environmental Center Student’s Fight Against Fracking
This post is by Michaela Steiner, a student and divestment organizer at Fort Lewis College in Colorado: I decided to attend college in Colorado because of its pristine beauty and great hiking...
View ArticleEnvironmental Center 2015 Spring Staff Retreat at Heartwood Cohousing
Environmental Center 2015 Spring Staff Retreat at Heartwood Cohousing By: Lexis Loeb, FLC Art Major and EC Real Food Challenge Team Member This past weekend the passionate students and staffers here at...
View ArticlePodcast: Mother Earth Greek Tragedy, by Zack Bauer–EC Campus Sustainability...
Check out Zach’s awesome podcast here! One night in the dark dwellings of my cold dorm room, I felt an overwhelming desire to help the environment. I had just listened to Neil Young’s new song “Who’s...
View ArticleCreating a Local Food System…and learning how to create social and...
The Fort Lewis College (FLC) Environmental Center’s Campus Garden in Durango, Colorado is home not only to organic veggies and herbs, but also to two Local Food Fellows. These dedicated students learn...
View ArticleZero Waste, Here We Come!
Have you ever thrown away a perfectly good t-shirt, pair of jeans, old electronic, CD, or book? Chances are you aren’t the only one, most of us have. In the Story of Stuff (a wonderful short...
View ArticleGrowth from Fertile Souls
Within the past year of working with the Environmental Center, I feel that I have grown more as a person than in my whole college experience. For my first two years of school here, I was fairly...
View ArticleReal Food Challenge
The Real Food Challenge Team is a part of a national campaign that leverages the power of youth to create a healthy, fair, and green food system. We are working to shift 20% of the money spent on food...
View ArticleInside Local Food Security in the Four Corners
Do you know how many days of food we have available in our grocery stores in the event that the trucks stop coming over the hill? Did you ever wonder about what a Food Procurement contract is and how...
View ArticleEnvironmental Center and EC Dine student staff featured in the Navajo Times
This past Thursday, the FLC Environmental Center was featured in an article in the Navajo Times entitled, “FLC Environmental Center preparing Native Youth”. The article highlights the experiences of...
View ArticleEC Library Update
“Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.” – Richard Feynman One of the most important things I’ve...
View ArticleGreen Business Roundtable – Are we safe from another Gold King spill?
Being in my third year here at Fort Lewis, I am becoming more aware and involved with things that are happening in our local community. This last week, I attended the Green Business Roundtable meeting...
View ArticleCrickets for Lunch
This is my first semester working for the Environmental Center. I always enjoyed volunteering for the EC, so I knew I would like getting more involved. On the Local Food Team our initiative is to...
View ArticleSpring Break, Grand Canyon Trust Style
by Mike Chizhov, Volunteer Program Associate, Grand Canyon Trust We pull our convoy of vehicles onto the side of the farm plot, our truck bed full of shovels, gloves, and water. “Today, we dig ditch,”...
View ArticleSunnyside Meats: The Sunnier Side of Meat Processing
By Zack Bukovich, Environmental Center Local Food Fellow Working as a Local Food Fellow for the Environmental Center at Fort Lewis College, I have been fortunate enough to have the opportunity of...
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