Amy Linn’s Posts

• Graduate Cool

  A recent grad follows her passions and finds a green job she digs 0

  Posted 1 year, 2 months ago

  

  All college students know the feeling -- that squeaky little hamster wheel of doubt about life post-diploma. What if I can't find a job? What if I can't find a job I like? What if I can't find a job that aligns with my values?

  Ditch that hamster wheel and climb on two wheels that can take you places, Maya Donelson would tell you. A 2006 graduate of New York's Syracuse University, Donelson knew she wanted to do something green in her life. But it took a random adventure -- a Read More

• Frisky Business

  To engage other students, green activists put their best fête forward 0

  Posted 1 year, 2 months ago

  

   

  A pop quiz for the college crowd:

  Which of the following is no fun?
  A) Beer
  B) Doing it in the dark
  C) Global warming activism
  D) This is a trick question -- they're all related

  If you picked C, you're forgiven, says Maura Cowley, campaign director for the Sierra Student Coalition. But, dude, you're so wrong.

  

  The right answer, of course, is D. Today's campus eco-actions involve all sorts of festive frolicking, from "Save the… Read More

• I Am Freshman, Hear Me Roar

  Incoming Yale student plans to ramp up her activism for the big leagues 0

  Posted 1 year, 2 months ago

  

  For some people, life starts after college. For Karoline Evin McMullen, it began in middle school.

  

  Karoline Evin McMullen
  Age: 18
  School: Yale University

  By the time she was 14, McMullen of rural Geauga County, Ohio, had already: written a textbook for elementary school kids; started a project with two friends to protect endangered brook trout; won a Christopher Columbus Award and a trip to Walt Disney World; and won a President's Environmental Youth Award and a trip to… Read More

• Reaching the Summit

  Student activist gets Phoenix buzzing with green biz expo 0

  Posted 1 year, 2 months ago

  

  Chris Samila
  Age: 23
  School: Arizona State University

  
  

  Sometimes people do things because they don't realize they can't. If this makes no sense to you, you haven't met Chris Samila, a (permanent, as he jokingly puts it) senior at Arizona State University in Tempe, where he had some epiphanies, founded a business (Green Summit Inc.), and somehow managed to pull off a wildly successful green business expo on campus. With no experience. And no real cash.… Read More

• Sermon on the Mounting

  How to green your love life 1

  Posted 1 year, 9 months ago

  

  Skyrockets in flight ... but is it an eco-friendly delight?

  Photo: iStockphoto

  
  

  Ahhh, the bedroom: an oasis of pleasure, a place where terms like "emissions reduction" and "off-gassing" should never intrude. Not that environmentalism and sex don't mix. It's just that lying back and thinking about things like CO2 and carcinogens isn't exactly ... hot. So what's a passionate greenie to do?

  The answer is easy as one, two, wheee. We've assembled a slew of ideas (and a… Read More

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