Hydroponic Gardening

Dylan Wootton, a senior biomedical engineering student at the University of Utah, is the project manager for the Hydroponic Team at Lassonde Studios. The team designs and builds hydroponic gardens inside the building, growing plants in nutrient rich water solutions. “We’re able to grow plants faster and in a more sustainable manner than through traditional […]

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Environmentally Friendly Refuge

The University of Utah campus and community puts environmental impact and sustainability in high importance. Quaid Harding, president of the U’s Beekeeping Association and an undergraduate studying biology, is working to further this goal through installing a pollinator demonstration garden on campus. The garden will tackle many key environmental and social issues on campus: reducing […]

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How Sustainability and Entrepreneurship Coexist

Although sustainability can mean a variety of different things to many different people, Ian Schelledy believes that its essence can be summarized into one phrase: the triple bottom line. Thinking about people, profit and planet requires a mindset geared toward long-term thinking, a path that Schelledy, founder of Sustainable Startups, has been inspiring others to […]

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