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Students Design, Build Industrial Can Crusher
Their goal was to make a can crusher that would work without electricity. The result: a human-powered press that flattens a can in eight seconds. Total cost? About $500.
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Permaculture Students Plant Edible Forest on Campus
It’s intended to be a display of self-sustainability based on contemporary permaculture principles — the design of productive habitats for people that have the stability, diversity, and resilience of natural ecosystems.
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Students Build Low-Cost Solar Tube
Students built a solar tube — a project initiated during a course in high-performance green building.
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Students Build Low-Cost Solar Tube
Students built a solar tube — a project initiated during a course in high-performance green building.
Students Help Build Greenhouse
Sustainable Living students enrolled on the University’s track in sustainable agriculture participated in the construction of a 35-by-96-foot greenhouse, a "barn-raising" event organized by the nonprofit organization Practical Farmers of Iowa.
Students Learn Beekeeping, Build Bee Hives
In a first-of-its-kind course at MUM on natural beekeeping, students learned the foundations of biodynamic beekeeping from a visiting top expert, Gunther Hauk of Spikenard Farm in Illinois.
Student Projects: “Living Machine,” Wood-Fired Oven
Sustainable Living students created a range of Earth-friendly projects, including a "living machine," a brick oven capable of making 20-30 loaves of bread at a time, a solar collector, a website that monitors the energy performance of their classrooms, and a solar hot water heater.
Student-built wind generator provides power to classroom
A wind generator built by students capable of producing up to 2,000 watts of power is helping to provide power to the Sustainable Living department.
Students have big plans for biodiesel processor
Students in the Sustainable Living Program completed construction of a biodiesel processor capable of producing up to 500 gallons of fuel a day and are now hoping to use the fuel it makes to power University vehicles and to eventually set up a co-op to make fuel available to the community.
Student Garden Offers Field Experience
The project, called the “student garden,” is designed as a large circle composed of many growing beds (3’ by 12’ each) where students grow a diversity of organic vegetables, culinary herbs, soft fruits (berries), and flowers, as well as fiber crops, various medicinal plants, and more.