Sunday, May 11, 2008

A brief history of the GreenHouse

The GreenHouse at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, serves as an intentional living community dedicated to environmental leadership on campus and to building a stronger community, primarily via active participation in organic farming and gardening.

The GreenHouse evolved from the EcoHouse at the University of the South, which was established in 2003. The EcoHouse served as an environmental interest house for sophomores, juniors, and seniors who attempted to work together to live in an environmentally friendly manner while serving as leaders of other sustainability-related groups on campus. 

Despite a plethora of wonderful events and dedicated members, the EcoHouse never quite fulfilled its potential. Thus, in the spring of 2008, the EcoHouse began an ongoing process to reinvent itself as the Sewanee GreenHouse. If all goes well, the GreenHouse will move into a new building on central campus in August 2008 and, as a community, will abide by the following principles:

• Develop students of all academic pursuits into creative and inquisitive servant leaders,
• Engage with the local community through active participation, and
• Promote involvement by faculty, their families and community so that we all may more fully
• Practice sustainable living here at Sewanee and in our global community as a means of
• Confronting a self-centered mindset that motivates local and global inequality.

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