Space is limited! Don’t miss this opportunity to earn your Permaculture Design Certificate at the SLC Fairfield Eco-Design Center Campus -- a 12-acre Permaculture demonstration site! Classes are held in a 100% sun and wind powered straw bale building with rainwater catchment. This course is enriched by our extended campus of the greater Jefferson County Iowa area -- a diverse community with many sustainable living initiatives including
Support two worthy organizations with a single gift! Your tax deductible donation to the SLC can support Iowa public radio, and will allow the purchase of valuable underwriting publicity for the Sustainable Living Coalition. Help the SLC get the message out and double the effect of your contribution.
Schneider Electric generously donated a Xantrex XW 4024 Inverter to the SLC’s Education Campus. The inverter was a critically needed item that will greatly benefit the campus by helping to manage power generated by a 1 kW wind turbine and a 1.8 kW solar pv array.
The Iowa City based organization Backyard Abundance is hosting a 3-month series of programs: Seeds of Sustainability. Events include lectures, film screenings, workshops and panel discussions. Topics being covered include: edible forest gardens, benefits of gardening, ecosystem and landscape design, health and wellness, creating a sustainable community, enriching soil, low-maintenance gardens, creating habitats of
This two-weekend course is designed as a hands-on introduction to the basic skills and techniques necessary to begin making from scratch: bows, arrows and atlatls (a simple spear thrower). Students take home from the course a completed atlatl, a functional board bow and a number of arrows. Students will acquire the basic knowledge and hands-on experience needed to build their own bows and arrows.
Under the auspices of a Fulbright Grant, the Sustainable Living Coalition will be undertaking a 1 acre native tall grass praire and savannah restoration project near the SLC Fairfield Ecological Design Center on the SLC Campus.
The Sustainable Living Coalition partnered with Clipper Windpower, New Society Publishers and Chelsea Green Publishing to bring Sustainable Living Book collections to the Iowa City and Cedar Rapids Public Libraries. The donation is a ‘green’ book collection focused on various aspects of sustainable living.
Economist Paul Romer, in a different context, stated, “A Crisis is a Terrible thing to Waste.” Within the next 50 years – our culture will be bearing fully the brunt and repercussions of multiple crisis: Climate Change, Resource Depletion (Peak Oil), Human Population Growth and Species Extinction.The Sustainable Living Coalition was founded by a group of passionate, dedicated and concerned people as a direct and POSITIVE response to the aforementioned problems.
Schneider Electric
The Iowa City based organization 
The Sustainable Living Coalition partnered with Clipper Windpower, New Society Publishers and Chelsea Green Publishing to bring Sustainable Living Book collections to the Iowa City and Cedar Rapids Public Libraries. The donation is a ‘green’ book collection focused on various aspects of sustainable living. 
