Sustainability

Sustainability is a concept that embraces more than our physical environment.  In its broadest sense it also includes social justice practices that reduce the waste of human potential.  Four senior technology management majors exemplify outstanding accomplishments in this important aspect of their education. 

In a senior project for their environmental technology class, they elected to work with the St. Cloud State University Community Garden folks, who asked them to create an irrigation plan that would accommodate needs of the garden, be easy to operate and use collected rain water as the main water supply. They created a design for an expanded garden and creation of an irrigation center where the equipment to run it will be placed.  The impact of this project on student environmentalists Joe Vos of St. Cloud, Nicholas Janssen of Marshall, Eric Olson of Ogilvie, and Michael Hicks of Litchfield goes beyond a classroom assignment. They have left the Community Garden - a place where campus and community members grow friendships along with plants and produce - with the necessary tools to move forward with a sustainable irrigation project. 

Joe Vos' 11, Nicholas Janssen '11, Eric Olson '11, Michael Hicks '11