FRONTLINES CUERP
Incredible edible campus
Alicia Walter harvests kale and basil on the (very) green roof of the Quinlan Life Sciences building.
This spring, students from the Center for Urban Environmental Research and Policy (CUERP): Food Systems course created a map of the Lake Shore Campus indicating where and what flora is fit to eat. It may sound strange, but “edible landscaping” is highly sustainable—and can be delicious.
Learn more about edible landscaping and view the map at
LUC.edu/cuerp/ edibleplants.
Allium Summer Beauty Onion
American Cranberry
Sugar Maple
Service Berry
Bay Berry
Cattail combat The Great Lakes are under siege.
The Asian carp has been making the news lately as a grave threat to the Great Lakes’ ecosystem, but another invasive species is wreaking havoc in coastal wetlands: Typha angustifolia, or the narrowleaf cattail. This species has hybridized with a native species to produce an aggressive cattail that is dominating wetlands, forcing other species out, and decreasing biodiversity. “The worst thing is that these cattails modify the wetlands’ ecosystem so that
Clean machines
they don’t absorb nutrients and toxins like they are supposed to,” says Nancy Tuchman, vice provost and professor of biology. “Wetlands operate like kidneys for our landscapes, and this plant is causing a malfunction.” To combat the problem, the
Environmental Protection Agency has awarded Loyola’s CUERP a $450,000 grant to mechanically harvest large swathes of the invasive cattail, hopefully paving the way for more biodiversity and helping to improve the water quality of the Great Lakes.
Loyola’s Center for Urban Environmental Research and Policy recently received several grants to support its clean air and water initiative, including $350,000 from the National Science Foundation and $486,000 from the Department of Energy. The funds are earmarked for highly sensitive and sophisticated equipment to test air and water quality. The machines will detect pollutants in Chicago’s air and water, and the results will be mapped and shared with the community.
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LOYOLA MAGAZINE
TOM BARNES, UNIVERSIT Y OF KENTUCKY
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