Sustainability News
EMU Wins Gold for Going Green at Valley Tech Awards
May 16th, 2013Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) won the “Green Award” at the Shenandoah Valley Technology Council’s Tech Nite 13 on Wednesday, May 1, 2013. EMU was recognized for its solar array on the roof of the Hartzler Library. At the time of installation in fall 2010, it was the largest array in the state of Virginia. It …More
Like EMU, Maryland, Texas and Brown Students Convey Unused Food to Charities
February 6th, 2013[EDITOR’S NOTE: The following article published recently in The Washington Post and Daily News Record called to mind that EMU students have been doing this work since 2008, taking up to 150 pounds of food per week to the Salvation Army and Our Community Place in Harrisonburg.] Not to make you feel guilty, but think …More
Seminary Prof Also Teaches Bee Keeping
January 15th, 2013Kenton Derstine, director of field education at Eastern Mennonite Seminary, is not just mentoring future pastors, he is also mentoring future beekeepers. Contributing to the university’s efforts at sustainability, Derstine placed four bee hives on the grassy hill north of Eastern Mennonite University’s (EMU) seminary building. Derstine has been training an undergrad nursing student, Tessa …More
A Mennonite Campus Delicious Enough To Eat
December 28th, 2012The fruit trees aren’t budding on the hill and the bees aren’t buzzing around their hives as Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) settles into winter 2013 in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. But EMU has tilled its soil for a flourishing “edible campus” in the spring. Springtime visitors can expect to stroll by asparagus hedges on …More
Water Cistern Lands EMU on National Wildlife Federation “Best Green Projects” List
December 5th, 2012A pair of local colleges had two of the best “green projects” in the nation for 2012, the National Wildlife Federation announced last week. Case studies detailing the projects from Blue Ridge Community College and Eastern Mennonite University are among the 112 chosen for the federation’s Campus Ecology database. Established in 1989, the database shows …More