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Business Ethics and Environmental Sustainability: Biking to the Sunwatch archeological site

The BEES took another six-mile junket — this time a bike ride — to the Sunwatch Archeological site across the Great Miami River from campus. This trek revealed that the later Woodland tribes faced serious resource constraints that the earlier immigrants to the Miami Valley did not. The ‘three sisters’ did not provide sufficient nutritional value to prevent the majority of children from dying before the age of 5; few adults lived beyond their thirties. Deforestation and a failure to maintain the soil’s fertility forced the later Woodland people to abandon this particular site after only two decades. Fortunately, all the participating BEES survived, and feasted not on BCS (beans, corn and squash)  but on a modern take of BCS: bagels, cream cheese and Sour Patch Kids.

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Business Ethics and Environmental Sustainability: BEES canoe the Little Miami and master atlatls at Fort Ancient

Members of the Integrated Living Learning Community's Business Ethics and Environmental Sustainability group paddled wooden canoes down a six-mile stretch of the Little Miami Scenic River.
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Business Ethics and Environmental Sustainability: BEES tour the Patterson Homestead, ride canal boats at Johnston Farm and raise money for beehives for families in developing countries

A guided tour of the Patterson Homestead provided an opportunity for UD students to view the ‘ancestral home’ of the founder of NCR.
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