Goldman Environmental Prize Winners Announced

If you need a little inspiration as end of the semester work intensifies, head on over to the Goldman Environmental Prize website, where today the 2010 winners were announced: Thuli Brilliance Makama, Swaziland Tuy Sereivathana, Cambodia Małgorzata Górska, Poland Humberto Ríos Labrada, Cuba Lynn Henning, United States Randall Arauz, Costa Rica “Grassroots environmental heroes too [...]

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Open Access 101

SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) has produced a great animated video, Open Access 101 (~3 minutes), explaining the scholarly information landscape and why we need open access: And be sure to check out A Very Brief Introduction to Open Access (PDF), which explains two ways the research community provides open access, through [...]

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Goldman Environmental Prize Announces 2009 Winners

Celebrating its 20th year, the Goldman Environmental Prize has announced the 2009 winners, selected for their grassroots activism in “protecting endangered ecosystems and species, combating destructive development projects, promoting sustainability, influencing environmental policies and striving for environmental justice. Prize winners are often women and men from isolated villages or inner cities who chose to take [...]

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Goldman Environmental Prize

The Goldman Environmental Prize recognizes and honors grassroots environmental activists: The 2008 Goldman Prize recipients tackled some of the most pressing environmental issues of the day through grassroots efforts, helping to educate and motivate local communities to get involved in the effort to protect the natural environment around them and to stand up for their [...]

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Mountaintop Removal Road Show

David Cooper’s “Mountaintop Removal Road Show” is coming to Keene this Wednesday Night, April 16th, 7pm At Antioch University New England’s Community Room The Road Show is a 70-minute presentation by David Cooper, which includes a stunning 25-minute slide show about the impacts of mountaintop removal coal mining on residents, communities, and the environment in [...]

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Articles on Multicultural Competence for Psychologists and Therapists

The most recent issue (April 2008) of Professional Psychology: Research and Practice includes several articles on working with clients from myriad cultures. If you are a current student, faculty, or staff member at ANE, use our standard log in to access the articles below. Helping Chinese Parents Understand and Support Children With Learning Disabilities, by [...]

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The True Cost of Bottled Water

Buying a bottle of water seems so simple, so uncomplicated. Charles Fishman’s recent article, “Message in a Bottle,” on the Fast Company website quickly puts an end to that illusion: . . . Bottled water is often simply an indulgence, and despite the stories we tell ourselves, it is not a benign indulgence. We’re moving [...]

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The Library — Temple of Freedom

According to Garrison Keillor in a recent column, not only is the library a “temple of freedom,” but “when politics gets mean and dumb, you can cheer yourself up by walking into a public library, one of the nobler expressions of democracy.” We couldn’t agree more.

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On Technology and Teaching: “A Brain and A Book”

James Lang, in a Chronicle of Higher Education column, “A Brain and a Book,” takes up Marc Prenksy’s “Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants.” Lang presents the premise on which Prensky’s conclusions are based: The title pretty much says it all: Our students are digital natives who have grown up in the land of technology and know [...]

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A Fair(y) Use Tale

Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University provides this humorous, yet informative, review of copyright principles delivered through the words of the very folks we can thank for nearly endless copyright terms.

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