EMU alumnus Levi Geyer ’22 is taking environmental sustainability to a whole new level. The Iowa farmer gathers yellowbud hickory nuts from parks and conservation areas to produce hickory oil, which is then filtered, bottled and sold. A recent article in The Marketplace, the official publication of Mennonite Education Development Associates, highlights his mission to popularize the oil. In the article, Geyer credits EMU’s environmental science classes with showing him the connection between agriculture and sustainability.
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Animated orator Tony Campolo speaks without notes in engaging his audience. Photo by Jim Bishop At age 72, Tony Campolo remains passionate about two things – that people experience a ... read more about ‘See Jesus in Others,’ Campolo Urges
Matt Frei, chief Washington, D.C., correspondent for the BBC, interviewed President Loren Swartzendruber on creation care from an Anabaptist perspective for a BBC production about Christian response to global warming; ... read more about President Addresses Global Warming, Creation Care
