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Architect Sarah Mohd. Salleh designed arcologies for Kuala Lumpur that integrates housing and gardening in a naturally ventilated, small-footprint tower.

On Friday, May 1, I attended a workshop on “Sustainability and Curriculum” lead by Dr. Geoff Chase. The workshop opened my mind and eyes to a new reality. As a teacher, I know I am teaching students material to further their future goals. Most of my students take my class as a requirement, not as a major. The workshop brought out an important idea: I am teaching students to exist in a world that I will know nothing about.

Laney International Cuisine Students work on the garden that supplies some of their herbs.

Students in the Culinary Arts Department at Laney College recently harvested fresh fava beans from the garden outside of the new Laney Bistro restaurant to prepare in their cooking classes in a new, state-of-the-art teaching kitchen just a few feet away.

Culinary Arts Instructor David Jones said “every week we cook recipes from a different country or region of the world, and this week in our French cuisine class we lightly sautéed the beans in extra virgin olive oil, with shallots and Herbs de Provence, and served them with Rognion de Veau, or veal kidneys”.