IUPUI, Butler University join forces for chance to win $50,000 sustainability prize
By Rich Schneider, IU Communication Specialist Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis’ sustainability director and Butler University’s sustainability coordinator will stand shoulder-to-shoulder Oct. 10 at a conference in Baltimore, where they will make a high-stakes three-minute pitch for a food-composting proposal they hope will bring the two campuses $50,000. The proposal would create a collaborative large-scale composting […]
Visual communication design class plays role in zero-waste initiative at IU Natatorium
By Rich Schneider, IU Communications Specialist: The Indiana University Natatorium will make sustainability history June 18 when it begins operating as a zero-waste athletic facility for the 2016 Olympic Diving Trials. It will be the first athletic facility in Indiana to achieve zero-waste goals and the first host of an Olympic event to have a […]
New Center of Earth and Environmental Science director connected to soil
By Rich Schnieder, IU Communications specialist: Soil has always been a presence in the life of Pierre-Andre Jacinthe, who recently took over the reins of the Center on Earth and Environmental Science at IUPUI. It was the agricultural land around Arcahaie, the village in Haiti where he grew up, that gave the community and its […]
