Eric Pallant’s Posts

• One Word, Infinite Possibilities

  Plastic bags get a new life in Jerusalem 1

  Posted 6 months, 1 week ago

  When Eric Pallant showed a group of teachers how to make a fused-plastic fabric, he never imagined the creations that would result.

• The Headlines You Don't See

  Green building in the West Bank 1

  Posted 6 months, 1 week ago

  As the keynote speaker at a green-building conference in Palestine, Eric Pallant met students who are making real progress on the ground -- progress that gets buried by bloodier news stories.

• Bye the Book

  My year of teaching environmental science without a textbook 11

  Posted 3 years, 6 months ago

  In the first class of the 2005-2006 school year, after calling roll and introducing myself and co-professor Terry Bensel, I told our students they were participating in an experiment. An experiment that, as far as we knew, no one else had undertaken. They were taking an Introduction to Environmental Science course with no textbook.

  

  Saved by the screen.

  Photo: iStockphoto.

  Here at Allegheny College -- a liberal-arts, undergraduate institution in northwestern Pennsylvania with 2,000 students -- approximately 180 students are distributed among four sections of this annual course. For the 19… Read More

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