We are excited to announce two new ASAP Scholars and can’t wait to see what they accomplish! Jaeyoung Han is a PhD student working with Dr. Glen Hartman. They are interested in the occurrence of nematodes in organic soybean fields in the state of Illinois. Plant parasitic nematodes, especially soybean cyst nematode, damage soybean cultivation […]
Category: Student Voices
What on Earth Day would we do without the Student Sustainability Committee?
For Earth Day on campus this year lets thank our Student Sustainability Committee! Last week they held a symposium in the Illini Ballroom to report on projects they have funded and it was really impressive. Check out all their funded work here. Featured projects included projects at Allerton, discussed by Derek Peterson. Then Jen Bechtel discussed […]
Student Sustainability Committee Symposium
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC)/ and Student Sustainability Symposium is tomorrow, talks run from 12 (noon) – 1:30PM followed by posters The Student Sustainability Committee will present their funded projects to the campus community tomorrow! This is an amazing group of students that deserve our recognition Keynote panel led by Professor John Abelson of […]
Permaculture on Organic Farms
Join eOrganic for a webinar on Permaculture on Organic Farms. The webinar will take place on December 9, 2014 at 2PM Eastern Time, 1PM Central, 12PM Mountain Time, 11AM Pacific Time. The webinar is free and open to the public, and advance registration is required. About the Webinar Lots of people are talking about permaculture, […]
Eating Animals Review
Next Tuesday at 12:35pm, Jonathan Safran Foer will be doing a “virtual visit” to the Illini Union, in room 404, giving us a chance to ask him questions about his book Eating Animals, a heavy piece of nonfiction. I call it heavy not because its prose is dense (it’s quite pleasant to read) or because it is […]
Events: Environmental Films in Champaign-Urbana
Fall seems to have snuck up on us while we weren’t looking, but you can feel good about staying indoors (and staying dry) with these thoughtful documentaries to be shown in Champaign-Urbana.
Clean Water (and what it really means for agriculture)
When was the last time you encountered water from a drinking fountain that wasn’t clear, cool, and pollutant free? Clean water is a given in our society. Our supermarkets are lands of plenty, and that certainly doesn’t stop at the rows of shiny plastic-encased water, standing there as pristine as a bubbling country spring. Except […]
Note on new calendar format
I’ve been working on streamlining our events calendar over the past few months, and trying to figure out how to best accommodate not only our events, but also those of other local organizations with similar purposes. So instead of the list, there is now a grid on the sidebar. Events can be viewed by hovering over […]
The State of Food Waste: Gleaning, and Other Ways to Help
After interviewing Jack Paxton for my last article, I had the same thought I know many others have had: “Wow. Maybe I should start thinking more about what I throw away. But how?” I went looking for solutions, maybe to tag them onto the end of the article, but felt like they merited their own piece, and so […]
The State of Food Waste: Freeganism
Jack Paxton is a UC Davis alumnus, professor emeritus of UIUC, teacher at UC-San Diego, and looks every bit the part of a respectable academic. Yet he’s trying to get ordinary people to talk about a topic that many consider the territory of young hippies – freeganism. Freeganism is a lifestyle based on minimizing consumption and […]