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Tastes of Sustainability
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 09/27/2012 - 7:00pm
Thu, 09/27/2012 - 7:00pm
Come to the CEEE September 27th at 7:00. Amazing chef, Dan Ankrum of Avant Garde Catering, will be preparing courses using local products and discussing how sustainability relates directly to dining around the area.
Along with great food and entertainment, the student organizations UNI Green Life, Green Project UNI, Student Nature Society (SNS), and Northern Iowa Student Energy Corp will be attending to pass along information about their clubs and why and how you should get involved.
Below is the menu and farms from which the products came from.
Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream demo
Farm: Hansens, HillCrest Farms
Squash soup
Local Iowa butternut squash soup, Vegan
Farm: A Family Market Place
Local Iowa roasted pork shoulder served taco style.
Farm Green's Organics
Brew Grain Cookies
Farms: Hillcrest Farms, Kitchen Table CSA, Hansen's
Location:
Center for Energy and Environmental Education (CEEE)
1348790400
Cedar Falls Practical Backyard Tour
Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 06/10/2012 - 2:00pm
Sun, 06/10/2012 - 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Sponsored by UNI's Center for Energy & Environmental Education and Green Iowa AmeriCorps, the Practical Backyard Tour highlights several backyards around Cedar Falls where practical and effective methods have been utilized. From composting to solar and rain barrels to gardening, the tour features backyards that work!
Beginning at 2 p.m., participants are welcome to arrive at any of the backyards listed below where tickets will be available (one ticket gains participant access to all five backyards). After 5 p.m., participants are encouraged to visit Beck's on The Hill afterwards for dinner, a prize drawing, and open discussion on practical uses for backyards.
Tickets ($5, does not include dinner) will be available the day of the event at each of the backyards. Proceeds from the event will support Green Iowa AmeriCorps work in the Cedar Valley. Please direct any questions to Green Iowa AmeriCorps. We hope to see you there!
The five backyards featured during the tour include:
1. Cedar Falls Community Garden, 600 Block Lincoln Street, Cedar Falls “Taking Back, Giving
Back” this garden is flood-reclaimed land and features a sitting area, water collection
system, and composting [from Cup of Joe]. With 50 of the 80 available plots rented and four
organizations actively growing food to be donated to the Cedar Valley Food Bank and other
charities, this location is full of vast and diversified garden delights growing for a great cause.
2. Dave Gibson, 524 West Lone Tree Road, Cedar Falls “Twin Cedars, a Gated Community” this
wonderful stop in North Cedar will feature fruit trees, vegetable garden, hens, passive solar
kitchen, solar electric system, and 140 recently planted trees.
3. Kamyar Enshayan, 1703 Washington Street, Cedar Falls “Lawn & Order” featuring backyard
hens, easy-going compost, native prairie pollinator heaven, local wood shed, solar hot water,
linear evaporative drying system (clothes lines), 20 years of pesticide-free lawn, vegetable
garden.
4. Jack & Carole Yates, 519 Chateau Ct, Cedar Falls “Perfectly Practical” both the front and back
yard features beds with native Iowa prairie plants, two vegetable gardens and an orchard with
apple, pear, Asian pear, cherry, peach and plum trees. Visitors can also see their two active solar
systems, a wood burning stove, clothes line and additions like a fire ring, patio and other places
that make it a great backyard to spend time in.
5. Ann Duncan, W 13th Street at the alley between Franklin and Tremont, “Smoke Stack Twin
Gardens” Featuring gardening for large and small spaces, a wide variety of vegetables,
raspberries, tiered garden, strawberry pyramid, rain barrels, compost bin, clothes line.
Location:
Cedar Falls, Iowa
1339365600
UNI Sustainability Update
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 04/18/2012 - 2:00pm
Wed, 04/18/2012 - 2:00pm - 4:00pm
The UNI community is invited to join the University Sustainability Council to recognize the ongoing sustainability efforts on campus and reflect on what the future holds for sustainability efforts. Father Bud Grant, St. Ambrose University, will be the keynote speaker.
Location:
Old Central Ballroom, Maucker Union
1334782800
UNI Green Project Movie Night
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 9:30pm
Wed, 02/15/2012 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
UNI Green Project will show the movie, "No Impact Man." This documentary involves a man and his family who spend a year living in the middle of New York City while trying to have no net impact on the environment. They do this by decreasing their negative habits and increasing the positive effects they have on the world around them.
Location:
Room 2, Sabin Hall
1329364800
Big Ideas for Sustainability at UNI
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 1:00pm
Mon, 12/12/2011 - 11:00am - 12:30pm
Share your ideas for big ideas for sustainability at UNI. Contact Bill Stigliani for more information.
Location:
Oak Room, Maucker Union
1323718200
Dry Run Creek Cleanup
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 09/19/2011 - 4:00pm
Mon, 09/19/2011 - 4:00pm
Help clean the University Branch of Dry Run Creek from Hudson Rd. to College St. Join us in light duty litter pick up on the creek banks or for heavy duty, wet and dirty creek wading! Rain date is Tuesday, Sept. 20, at 4 p.m.
Location:
NE Corner of WRC Parking Lot (Hudson Rd & Creek Entrance)
1316466000