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EMU senior’s Soil Cycles business by cycle collects compost

February 7, 2019Last updated February 19, 2019 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

Globe-trotting environmental sustainability major and Eastern Mennonite University senior Nidhi Vinod has started a Harrisonburg service – collecting compost by bicycle – that embodies the values she has come to

Alumni journalists lift ‘The Shifting Climates’ podcast off to a strong start

January 31, 2019Last updated July 2, 2019 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

The Shifting Climates podcast and website – aimed at “rehumanizing the conversation” on climate change by connecting it to topics of faith and justice – has released its first four

Blue Ridge Outdoors magazine names Ben Wyse ‘Best Bike Mechanic’

January 9, 2019 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

Ben Wyse ‘99 isn’t just the cool guy who sets up his mobile bicycle repair shop – Wyse Cycles – in front of Eastern Mennonite University’s Campus Center on most

Bikes & Recycling at EMU

January 5, 2019Last updated December 20, 2018 by

EMU Recycling Coordinator Matthew Freed and student Jack Hummel discuss the bicycles and trailers used to support the recycling and compost program at Eastern Mennonite University. Bikes are a big

Convo speaker Jim Shultz to EMU students about climate change’s planetary crisis: ‘You are the chosen people’

October 16, 2018Last updated October 16, 2018 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

Just days after the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report detailing the anticipated impacts of global warming, Jim Shultz visited Eastern Mennonite University with a very

Local Valley food economy flourishes

Hburg Citizen

James Madison University, Eastern Mennonite University and Bridgewater College are also committed to providing local options to students in their dining facilities as well as maintaining small campus gardens that produce food for the schools. ... read more about Local Valley food economy flourishes from Hburg Citizen

Student initiative to ‘leave our mark’ culminates in ‘solar barn raising’ at EMU

October 2, 2018Last updated October 3, 2018 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

A year-long student-initiated effort at Eastern Mennonite University became a physical reality in a matter of days last week and will increase the university’s solar energy capacity by 65 percent.

Water and sanitation challenges in Appalachia the subject of Wednesday’s Suter Science Seminar

September 25, 2018Last updated September 26, 2018 by EMU communications

Leigh-Anne Krometis, associate professor in biological systems engineering at Virginia Tech., will present a Suter Science Seminar at Eastern Mennonite University Wednesday, Sept. 26, at 4 p.m. Krometis will discuss

Engineering student builds sustainable concession stand for honors capstone project

Central Christian School

Senior mathematics and engineering major Ben Zook is giving back to EMU through his senior honors capstone project, a new sustainable concessions stand for the university’s turf field. ... read more about Engineering student builds sustainable concession stand for honors capstone project from Central Christian School

Solar in a Day

September 24, 2018Last updated October 2, 2018 by Shelby Mertens/Daily News-Record

A traditional barn raising brings together a group of neighbors to collectively build a barn for a community member in a single day. Eastern Mennonite University students gave the longstanding

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