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The Sweets Hereafter On dorm snacks	Umbra Fisk	13 Mar 2006	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, As a hall adviser at a college where social activism is valued, I find myself stuck when it comes to entertaining en masse. Sure, I buy from local farms when buying snacks for myself, but when leaving goodies for my hall, putting the ever-enticing winter squash outside a resident's door does not say "midnight snack." Basically, I want to have my candy and eat it too. How can I appeal to the green in me while appe ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, education, food and agriculture, local food, organic food (all these topics)

Quad Squad On college Earth Day fests	Umbra Fisk	06 Mar 2006	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, With Earth Day coming up, our environmental group at Purdue, Campus Greens, is trying to plan some events. Last year we had 15 groups handing out information and we provided free veggie burgers plus other food. This year we were hoping to expand on that success and include some activities like having people manually power a TV, washing machine, or some electronic device. Other than that, we're really struggling for ideas ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, education, Indiana (all these topics)

Have Some Class: Three degrees of eco-preparation A study on green degree programs	Sarah van Schagen	16 Feb 2006	Gristmill

Topics: education (all these topics)

The Mod Quad Green buildings, sustainability studies going mainstream on campus		09 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
The Mod Quad Green buildings, sustainability studies going mainstream on campus More than 110 colleges and universities around the U.S. have or are building eco-friendly structures, saving on energy costs and attracting students who want to go to a school that "gets" being green. At Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, for example, students designed a green roof that now features prominently in class projects, and a recently ...
Topics: education, news (all these topics)

Now That's Intelligent Design Schools curbing energy costs by building green		04 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
Now That's Intelligent Design Schools curbing energy costs by building green School officials in Oregon are learning a thing or two from a prototype uber-green classroom near Salem, which uses a large skylight and other technologies to enhance and regulate the natural light coming into the space. With energy bills eating up millions of dollars from school budgets, the project demonstrates that clas ...
Topics: education, environmental planning, news, water pollution (all these topics)

All the News That's Fit to Regret The top five environmental stories of the past year		03 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
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Topics: education (all these topics)

Down to EARTH Jos� A. Zaglul, EARTH University prez, answers readers' questions		09 Dec 2005	InterActivist
Jos� A. Zaglul, president of EARTH University. Can you give us some examples of how EARTH University graduates have promoted sustainability in their home countries?�� -- Tom Yuill, Madison, Wis. With nearly 1,000 graduates to date, the success stories are numerous and inspiring. Graduates are implementing innovative and sustainable agriculture techniques, founding companies, creating jobs, and improving ...
Topics: Costa Rica, education, environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview (all these topics)

Learn It Up Jos� A. Zaglul, EARTH University prez, answers Grist's questions		05 Dec 2005	InterActivist
Jos� A. Zaglul. What work do you do? I am the president of EARTH University, a private, not-for-profit, international institution. What does your organization do? Our mission is to promote sustainable development in the tropics through the creation of professionals with strong values, solid technical and scientific skills, entrepreneurial spirit, and social and environmental consciousness. When EARTH opened ...
Topics: Costa Rica, education, environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview (all these topics)

A Green Room of Her Own Eco-friendly dorm room is part of a greening trend at Berkeley		18 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
A Green Room of Her Own Eco-friendly dorm room is part of a greening trend at Berkeley Eco-conscious college living: not just for off-campus hippies living 12 to a house anymore! At the University of California-Berkeley, sophomore Rachael Robertson lives in what's being billed as America's first green dorm room, replete with energy-saving devices and a free supply of natural toiletries. It's part of a larger move ...
Topics: California, education, green living, news (all these topics)

Soar Spot Rick Durden, green pilot and head of LightHawk, answers readers' questions		18 Nov 2005	InterActivist
Rick Durden, executive director of LightHawk. Are observation flights over damaged ecosystems worth the combustion waste we pump into the air? Are you convinced you are part of the solution, rather than contributing to the problem?�� -- Howard Brown, New York, N.Y. I firmly believe we are part of the solution because there are only about 200,000 general aviation aircraft (planes other than airline a ...
Topics: education, InterActivist, interview (all these topics)

Fly the Eco-Friendly Skies Rick Durden, green pilot and head of LightHawk, answers Grist's questions		14 Nov 2005	InterActivist
Rick Durden. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? I have recently become the executive director of LightHawk, sometimes referred to as "the wings of conservation." What does your organization do? We work with other environmental and conservation organizations to provide free flights over environmentally threatened areas in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Ce ...
Topics: education, InterActivist, interview (all these topics)

Seedy business: A sustainable-ag champion gets plowed under at Iowa State Is agribusiness behind the ouster of one of its biggest critics?	Tom Philpott	02 Nov 2005	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, education, Iowa, sustainable ag (all these topics)

Cameron, how do you do it?	Chris Schults	21 Oct 2005	Gristmill

Topics: Cameron Diaz, education (all these topics)

Land Phil Phil Brick, environmental-politics professor, answers readers' questions		21 Oct 2005	InterActivist
Phil Brick, director of Whitman College Semester in the West. How do you talk about human living environments and their interaction with the "wilderness" in your semester?�� -- Kristen Wilson, Oaxaca, Mexico A major focus of Semester in the West is to acquaint students with people who work with nature every day. Most of our students come from urban backgrounds, so I think it is important to ...
Topics: education, InterActivist, interview, West (all these topics)

How the West Was Fun Phil Brick, environmental-politics professor, answers Grist's questions		17 Oct 2005	InterActivist
Phil Brick. What work do you do? I am professor of politics and codirector of environmental studies at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash. I am also the founder and director of an environmental-studies field program, Whitman College Semester in the West, a three-month field tour focusing on the political, ecological, and human dimensions of environmental issues in the American West. What do ...
Topics: education, InterActivist, interview, West (all these topics)

Voucher, schmoucher School vouchers won't solve educational or environmental problems	Todd Hymas Samkara	06 Oct 2005	Gristmill

Topics: education (all these topics)

Choose You Can Use School choice could be an answer to sprawl	Daniel Akst	06 Oct 2005	Soapbox
Imagine a country -- we'll call it Hobsonia -- that requires all its residents to shop at officially assigned supermarkets based on where they live. Now, Hobsonians care passionately about food, and since the law allows them to move if they wish, citizens decide where to live based largely on where they can buy groceries. Those with money move to the best supermarket districts, which tend to be in affluent a ...
Topics: education, placemaking (all these topics)

Green lunch time? 'Naked Chef' dresses down U.S. school lunches, demands 'real food,	Tom Philpott	05 Oct 2005	Gristmill

Topics: Alice Waters, education, food, United Kingdom (all these topics)

I Know What Youth Did Last Summer Brower Youth Award winners share their stories and their hopes	Sarah van Schagen	27 Sep 2005	Main Dish
It was a decidedly sober Whitney Houston who told us that the children are our future. And in the case of this year's Brower Youth Award winners, she couldn't be closer to the truth. They are seven activists, aged 15 to 21, who represent varied backgrounds, communities, and missions. One young woman has battled environmental and social injustice in her town along ...
Topics: education, green living (all these topics)

School Daze On why we shouldn't waste energy	Umbra Fisk	07 Sep 2005	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I am doing a big geography project at school on saving energy and recycling. My part is to comment on what will happen if we keep wasting energy. I know the basic information, but I am not sure what to write, as it is to be given out to adults (and I'm only 12!). Please send me some useful information because I am really stuck! Laura Heartfordshire, U.K. Dearest Laura, There are a few things that happen as we kee ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, education, energy, renewable energy (all these topics)

La Cage aux Hasselhoff Humans go on display at London Zoo		29 Aug 2005	Daily Grist
La Cage aux Hasselhoff Humans go on display at London Zoo Five women and three men -- ranging from a professional dancer to a veterinary student -- have put themselves on display as the London Zoo's resident Homo sapiens for the past three days. The posse of fit and frolicking humans, barely clad in bathing suits pinned with fake fig leaves, has been treated much as other zoo critters. Zookeepers have been providing enrichment toy ...
Topics: education, England, news (all these topics)

Page Against the Machine Amanda Lumry, children's book author, answers readers' questions		26 Aug 2005	InterActivist
Amanda Lumry, author of Adventures of Riley. I want to foster my 16-month-old son's sense of wonder and excitement about nature, without drowning it in worldly despair. At what age do you think it's wise to share environmental woes with youngsters?�� -- Ben Long, Kalispell, Mont. Yes, you definitely don't need to overwhelm your son with the world's issues right away. That could be very discoura ...
Topics: books, education, InterActivist, interview, messaging (all these topics)

The Pledge of Reason Dispatches from a student-run clean-car campaign		23 Aug 2005	Dispatches
The Road to Detroit campaign is run by 11 student organizers from around the U.S., one big, beautiful biodiesel and veggie-oil bus, and many friends and allies. Road to Detroit is a campaign of Energy Action, a student and youth clean-energy and global-warming coalition. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 Tuesday, 23 Aug 2005 DETROIT, Mich. Yesterday evening, the Road to Detroit team of organizers joined up with our brave Drive the Future we ...
Topics: biofuels, cars, Dispatches, education, energy, fuel efficiency, grassroots activism, Michigan, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

Text Message Amanda Lumry, children's book author, answers Grist's questions		22 Aug 2005	InterActivist
Amanda Lumry. What work do you do? I am an author and photographer for the Adventures of Riley children's book series, which educates children about the environment and entertains them at the same time. I am also the cofounder of Eaglemont Press, based in Bellevue, Wash. How does it relate to the environment? The Adventures of Riley series focuses on nine-year-old Riley, who introduces elementary-age childr ...
Topics: books, education, InterActivist, interview, messaging (all these topics)

What's All the Bus About? Dispatches from a student-run clean-car campaign		22 Aug 2005	Dispatches
The Road to Detroit campaign is run by 11 student organizers from around the U.S., one big, beautiful biodiesel and veggie-oil bus, and many friends and allies. Road to Detroit is a campaign of Energy Action, a student and youth clean-energy and global-warming coalition. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 Monday, 22 Aug 2005 DETROIT, Mich. In the madness of classic cars and signs reading "Burn Out," "Light Her Up," a ...
Topics: biofuels, cars, Dispatches, education, energy, fuel efficiency, grassroots activism, Michigan, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

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