By Glenn Gilbert, Goshen College utilities manager From the Summer 2006 issue of The Bulletin In 1990, Glenn Gilbert was serving as an electronics and computer technician at Goshen College when he was asked to design and oversee a computerized energy management system to be funded through a grant for energy conversation from the State … Keep reading »
Ecological footprint…Natural step
A Q&A on sustainability with Greg Bowman ’74 From the Summer 2006 issue of The Bulletin Greg Bowman ’74, from Bally, Pa., is the on-line editor for The Rodale Institute’s NewFarm.org, as well as a member of the Mennonite Creation Care Network Steering Committee and a planner for the annual Farming with Values that Last … Keep reading »
Lights off: Saving energy one hour at a time
April 7, 2009 Goshen College joined 50 million people around the world on March 28, from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m., to raise awareness about global climate change and energy consumption by turning off unnecessary lights during Earth Hour, sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). WWF recognized Goshen College as a “flagship campus,” along with … Keep reading »
History professor studies Africa's Serengeti people and landscape
Goshen College Associate Professor of History Jan Bender Shetler’s recent research has produced two key understandings that reconstruct how the Serengeti has been portrayed and understood since the late 1800s when Europeans arrived and the land was by then empty of people, but ripe as a “hunter’s paradise.”
Students research wetlands at environmental center through summer program
A summer as Goshen College Maple Scholars meant measuring the affect human hands can have on the earth for two environmental science majors, and more specifically about one of the earth’s natural water-cleansers: constructed wetlands.
Planet + people + profit + God = teaching the economics of going green
As an academic, Richer defines sustainability like many experts do. “It usually involves three objectives, what many refer to as the ‘three-legged stool’: protect the planet; provide for the needs of people; and produce the goods and services that bring comfort and joy to our lives.”