The University of Michigan’s Better Living Using Engineering Laboratory’s (BLUElab) Biogas Project focuses on the use of anaerobic biodigesters to recover energy from waste. This group is advised by Dr. Steven Skerlos and is a team of undergraduates and graduates from different disciplines that do work on the project as an extracurricular commitment. The group’s [...]
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University of Michigan’s BLUElab heads down to Nicaragua
Posted in Nicaragua, biodigestor, technologies, university partnership on October 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Green Empowerment Service Learning Project/Tour in Peru
Posted in Peru, university partnership, wind energy on October 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In August of 2009, Andrew Kanzler led a group of fellow Landscape Architecture alumni, graduate, and undergraduate students from Cal Poly Pomona on a 10-day Green Empowerment Service Learning project/tour with staff from Practical Action in Peru/ITDG along sections of the Jequetepeque Watershed in northern Peru. Andrew is an artist and current graduate student in [...]
Engaged Scholarship with Lewis and Clark & Green Empowerment
Posted in Nicaragua, university partnership on August 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In Spring 2009 Lewis and Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling formed the Center for Community Engagement (CCE) as a model for sustainable community engagement and collaboration with traditional marginalized communities.
Professor of Counseling Psychology Tod Sloan calls this “engaged scholarship” and the college is actively developing various projects that that focus on this concept. [...]

