Category: Environmental Systems

The CCCE, in collaboration with the Volunteer Network at St. Olaf, hosted “Community Development Week” midway through the term. This week of service and reflection included a panel of students and community members, daily volunteer opportunities, and a reflection dinner at the end with El Triunfo.

A timely training for student activists sponsored by Project Pericles

Heart of the Heartland Young Farmer Summer Seminar Application deadline approaching!!!! February 17th!!!

Tsegaye Nega’s personal mission to bring affordable, efficient cooking stoves to Ethiopia grew into a massive interdisciplinary collaboration, bringing together a diverse group of Carleton faculty, staff, and students.

Since April, members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe have come together with indigenous people and allies from across the country to non-violently protest the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.

It doesn’t have super cheap land or long growing seasons, but it does have an active, supportive community.

Carleton Faculty Members present on long-term and interdisciplinary academic civic engagement models at the 2015 AAC&U Crossing Boundaries: Transforming STEM Education Conference.

In late October, 27 Carleton students, four staff members, and several faculty members attended the annual Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) Conference in Minneapolis!

An article by Walter Edstrom and Brent Murcia, the 2015 Carleton Student Organic Farm Interns, for the newsletter of Northfield’s Just Food Co-op.

How does the Cannon River relate to the Tiber River of Rome? How have humans understood rivers over time? What can we learn from the intersections of history and geology, of maps and morphology, or of culture and nature? In a collaborative public scholarship effort “Mediterranean Rivers, Chained and Unchained” Professors Mary Savina and Victoria Morse explore these questions and more.