BY: INDIGO MILLER What is Ecosia? Ecosia is a search engine that plants trees from the ad revenue they earn. With the click of a button, this free and easy switch offers you the chance to make a difference in your everyday life Ecosia’s team does extensive research to ensure that they’re planting native trees … More Why You Should Switch to Ecosia
BY: ALEX KNUTTE Unsurprisingly, the hardest part about being vegan is going out to eat. While at home, I can purchase all the ingredients I need to create yummy, delicious plant-centric meals, but it becomes a little more difficult to follow this lifestyle when looking at a menu. When I first shifted to eating vegan … More How to Eat Vegan Uptown
BY: ALLISON REINECK Although Halloween is approaching, there is still time to grow some plants that will thrive and endure in the cold weather that will provide you with some fresh and healthy vegetables. You may face some challenges that come with planting this time of year. For example, there are few local places that … More Starting a Fall Vegetable Garden
By: Brandi Young Plastic is a synthetic or a semi-synthetic organic compound created from petrochemicals, chemicals produced from petroleum or natural gas, that can be molded into various shapes and products. Recently there has been some push back on the use of plastics, more specifically single-use plastics. The term “single-use plastics” refers to products that … More Plastic Pollution and Recovery
By: Shannon Reilly Around the middle of the semester, Oxford can start to feel isolated, so weekends are the perfect chance to get out. Cincinnati is only a short drive from Miami, but what is there to do when you get there? This past weekend I visited the Over The Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati and … More Sustainable Shopping: Cincinnati
By: Denali Selent With the holidays just around the corner, it’s easy to slip up when it comes to making conscientious and eco-friendly decisions. The not-so-merry-and-bright side to the holidays includes increased waste production, high emissions of greenhouse gases and a plethora of other issues. However, you don’t need to sacrifice the joys of the … More Joy to the Earth: 7 Ways to Be Gentler on the Environment This Holiday Season
By: Lindsey Brown As we near the halfway point of the fall semester, many of us are facing exams, due dates and the inevitable mid-semester slump. With Fall Break behind us, there are a few more long weeks ahead before Thanksgiving Break. So if you’re counting down the days and wishing for school to be … More Sustainably Rejuvenate your College Life
By: Allison Forsythe An Ohio-founded snack company, Peaceful Fruits, and its CEO, Evan Delahanty, are making big changes to not only how fruit snacks are made, but to how businesses are run. They put the fruit back into fruit snacks by having only 100 percent fruit in their snacks. Not only are these delicious fruit … More Founder and CEO of Peaceful Fruits Tells All
When buying organic, some of the first things that come to mind may be organic vegetables, fruits, and bathroom products. While all of these purchases are likely to improve your health, there is one organic purchase all gardeners should do for the good of their local pollinators. Saving insects may sound like a very low … More Save the Bees: Why Buying Pesticide-Free Flower Bulbs is More Important Than You’d Think
Miami University has been ranked in Princeton Review’s Guide to 353 Green Colleges for the second time. The Review ranks 374 colleges and universities in the United States and six outside of the US. Princeton Review does various rankings on universities based on survey information. Miami was selected for this environmental ranking based on a … More Miami University Ranks as “Green College”
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