• UMM - a Green Campus

Green News at UMM
UMM Green Fact Sheet
    (pdf file)
"Winds of Change" pdf file:
    Introducing the turbine
Wind Turbine renewable
    energy research press
    release, Dec. 2004
Biomass leadership (pdf)
Biomass energy and research
Recycling at UMM
Make a gift: UMM Green
Energy Fund

• Becoming a Green Campus

Accomplishments of the UMM
    Green Energy Task Force
    (Dec. 2004 press release)
UMM awarded Green Power
    Leadership Club
    membership
Other club members
Commissioning the turbine:
    press release

• Green in our classrooms

Green Service Learning
Environmental Studies major

• Our Partners

West Central Research
and Outreach Center
Renewable Energy Center
Pride of the Prairie local foods
EPA Green Power Partners
AASHE
UMACS

• Contact Page Maintainer

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UMM Green Campus site
The Home Grown Economy

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Past Green News at UMM

"Earth Day at the World Cafe" at UMM April 21

Clean Renewable Energy Bonds fuel UMM's energy goals.

UMM to track sustainability via STARS.

Recap of November 2007 Pride of the Prairie event (new window will open)

Advanced Biomass Workshop at UMM November 15

Area farmers bargaining for biomass

Farmer's Market and Meal!

The public is invited to a night of homegrown food and entertainment on Tuesday, Nov. 6, at the University of Minnesota, Morris. The Fifth Annual Pride of the Prairie Local Foods Farmers' Market and Meal is just around the corner! Click here for the event poster as a PDF file in a new window.

Global conference visits UMM. Ninety delegates from over 40 countries visited UMM recently as part of the USDA Global Conference on Agricultural Biofuels. In 2009, the Annual Symposium on Small Towns, hosted by UMM's Center for Small Towns, will focus on Renewing Our Global Communities with "The Path to Energy Self-sufficiency: An International Symposium." Use the Early Notification sign-up below to receive e-mail information about schedules and speakers.

Renewing our Global Community: The Path to Energy Self-Sufficiency
An International Symposium
June 1-4, 2009

Make a gift to the UMM Green Energy Fund!
The "UMM Sustainable 'Green' Energy" fund has been established to support projects and programs related to the advancement of "green," or sustainable energy initiatives at the University of Minnesota, Morris. Make a gift online at http://www.morris.umn.edu/alumni/funddevelopment/Make a Gift.html by clicking "Make a gift to UMM today" and, in STEP 2, selecting "UMM Sustainable 'Green' Energy Fund" in the "specific program or area" drop down menu. For more information about this or any other fund, contact Carla Riley at 320-589-6394 or rileycj@morris.umn.edu.

Click image for larger version of architect's conceptualization.

Biomass groundbreaking!

More than 100 people attended the biomass groundbreaking ceremony on July 27, 2007, for the new biomass gasification facility to be constructed at the University of Minnesota, Morris. We invite you to enjoy these photos of visiting dignitaries and other participants.

A Berry Special Evening! Proving that "Fresh tastes better," UMM's campus chef, Chris Serio, dazzled them once again at the annual Horticulture Night, July 26, 2007. Click here for a Word document (which may download to your hard drive rather than open in a browser window) of recipes including 'Pride of the Prairie Jambalaya' and local food provider information.

"M" calls UMM "granddaddy of local foods in the University system."

Regents approve biomass plant construction.

Chancellor Johnson joins ACUPCC climate commitment.

UMM Sustainability Coordinator visits junior high classroom.

Peanut burning in Buffalo

Home Grown Economy Conference

In an effort to address and explore how local foods can be an economic development engine for rural communities, Congressman Collin Peterson sponsored a conference called "The Home Grown Economy: Foods from Local Farms as an Economic Development Tool" at UMM on April 2, 2007 (rescheduled from February 26, 2007).

Visit UMM's
Home Grown Economy Conference
Web site.

Pride of the Prairie Spring 2007

The Spring 2007 Pride of the Prairie PDF file on-line

Press release

UMM joins inaugural committee on renewable energy (article)

Farmers' Market, Fall Feast offer homegrown fare (article)
Event Poster (gif)
Event Poster as 11.4 MB pdf file

UMM a partner at premiere Northland Bioneers Conference. (article)

Horticulture Night a big success!

This year's Horticulture Night on July 27, 2006, at the West Central Research and Outreach Center featured UMM Chef Chris Serio of Sodexho Campus Services demonstrating the preparation of locally produced foods. "It was like watching Emeril on the Food Network!" said UMM's Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, Sandy Olson-Loy.

Click here for a Pride of the Prairie PDF file with more information including a shopping list and Sicilian tomato salad, sausage and eggplant kebabs with hot chili sauce, and minted melon and berry dessert cup.

UMM's Chris Serio prepares local foods at WCROC Horticulture Night

Several UMM personnel and students presented the following topics at the 2006 Upper Midwest Association for Campus Sustainability:

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"Status of the UMM Gasification Project"

here

"What is Biomass Gasification?"

here

"Biomass: The Next Generation"

here

"Coordinating Greenness and the Role of a Campus Sustainability Coordinator on a Greening Campus"

here

"Local Foods go to College"

here

"A Green Morris: Wind Generation on the Prairie"

here

UMM and the West Central Research and Outreach Center presented posters and abstracts about renewable energy at the Initiative for Renewable Energy and Environment's 2nd Annual Research Symposium November 29, 2005 on the Twin Cities campus. The conference brought together the public and hosts speakers who discussed their efforts in researching renewable and environmental initiatives.

The Initiative for Renewable Energy and Environment has contributed funds for both the wind turbine and the planned biomass facilities on the Morris campus. Click the image at left to see a larger version of UMM's poster for the symposium.

UMM receives federal funding for biomass development
UMM, with its tall prairie grass and blue prairie sky, is quickly gaining ground as a place for biomass research. UMM was one of 11--and the only small town, liberal arts college--to snag a grant from the federal government's Biomass Research and Development Initiative. Read more.

UMM and WCROC highlighted in The Furrow
Cory Marquart, a scientist with the University of Minnesota Renewable Research and Demonstration Center at Morris is quoted in the article titled, "Power of the Future - Tomorrow's farmers and ranchers will provide food, fiber... and fuel." He says, "We hope to provide a model to show how rural communities and ag producers can integrate renewable energy systems into their economies." To read the complete article, visit http://www.deere.com/en_US/ag/pdf/furrow/2005/PowertheFuture.pdf. The Furrow is published by John Deere in 11 languages and is circulated in more than 45 countries with a worldwide circulation of more than 1.5 million. Its editors are recognized as some of the top journalists in agriculture.