A hundred miles, a thousand lessons
Luke Vance, a junior sustainability studies major from Boise, Idaho, provides reflections on the eight-day, hundred-plus mile canoe experience with Goshen College's Sustainability Leadership Semester.
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Jose Chiquito ’20: Why caring about immigration means caring about the Earth
José is a senior pursuing a degree in Sustainability Studies. He's also a Dreamer with a passion for sustainability, justice, and peace.
Forest to Table: Deer hunt delves into the ethics of eating
Although the ethics around eating meat can be polarized, experiencing how our food comes to us—and the processes and relationships around it—can help us understand our places, others and ourselves.
Vibrant People of Elkhart County: Luke Gascho
Luke Gascho is a professor in the Sustainability and Environmental Affairs Education Department at Goshen College and the executive director of Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center.
Goshen College re-certified as Bee Campus USA
Bee City USA® has renewed Goshen College’s Bee Campus USA certification for 2019 following a rigorous renewal application process. GC was named Indiana’s first Bee Campus USA for its work in supporting pollinators such as bees.
Wood Ducks, Marl Soil, Chorus Frogs and More: Natural Surprises Await Researchers and Students at Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center of Goshen College
Located near scenic Wolf Lake in Indiana, Merry Lea boasts geological riches of an unusually wide variety such as peat bogs, a marl pit and glacial gravel formations. Merry Lea is also home to wetland, prairie, and savanna restorations and participates in sustainable agriculture.
Environmental issues class focuses on hope
Students in Merry Lea’s Master’s in Environmental Education program discuss vexing social problems in their Environmental Issues and History class. They prepare presentations on topics like micro-plastics and nuclear disasters. All the same, students say they find hope in the course.
Kinderforest program gets Goshen kids out of the classroom and into the woods
About once a month, 24 students from the Goshen College Laboratory Kindergarten class — a partnership between the college’s education department and Goshen Community Schools — spend the day climbing trees, building shelters and making mud pies in Witmer Woods, through Merry Lea’s Kinderforest program, the first of its kind in Goshen.
Merry Lea students forage on canoe trip along Elkhart River
Every year in September, Joel Pontius leads students in Goshen College’s Sustainability Leadership Semester on an eight-day canoe trip from the headwaters of the Elkhart River at Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center to Lake Michigan.
Animals, fruits and nuts coexist in Merry Lea pasture
In a 5-acre pasture at the Merry Lea Sustainable Farm, you’ll find cows and chickens sharing the land with some unusual roommates — nut trees, fruit trees, grapevines and raspberries.