Sustainability
Sustainability
Phone: (218) 755-2560
Mailing Address:
Bemidji State University
1500 Birchmont Dr. NE, #31
Bemidji, MN 56601
BSU is a member of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.
BSU is among a select group of leaders in EPA's Green Power Partnership.
Traditional Skills Workshops
Traditional Skills Workshops started as a student idea to promote sustainability education at BSU. Why not learn from those in the community that live it? There is, on average, one workshop per month that focuses on a skill to increase self-sufficiency. Workshops during the 2009-2010 academic year included brain tanning a deer hide, carding and spinning yarn, breakmaking, using natural dyes, and planning gardens. Have any ideas for a workshop? Let us know!
- Bike Maintenance
- Wednesday, April 24th, 2013 from 5 to 6:30pm in Memorial 100
- Learn the basics of bike maintenance taught by the Outdoor Program Center in this Traditional Skills Workshop, part of Earth Week!
- Wednesday, April 24th, 2013 from 5 to 6:30pm in Memorial 100
Want to see pictures? Check them out here
Interested in chcking out a Traditional Skills Workshop? Come sign up in the Sustainability Office!
Students are FREE and others pay $7.
"We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using nature’s inexhaustible sources of energy -sun, wind and tide. ... I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that."
~ Thomas Edison to Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone (1931)