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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How to Change Behavior
Posted in enviro advocacy, psychology, sustainability on October 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I think many folks at ANE would agree with the premise of the video below–especially our solid waste coordinator and vermicomposter extraordinaire, Jess Skinner.
The Green Mind
Posted in climate change, enviro advocacy, sustainability, tips on April 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The New York Times Magazine has published their 2009 green issue. Articles include, “Why Isn’t the Brain Green?” and “Natural Happiness.” The New York Times requires free registration/login. If you’d like an alternative to this and you use FireFox for your browser, consider installing the BugMeNot add-on. BugMeNot allows you to right-click in the login [...]
Did you know?
Posted in global community, information landscape, sustainability, technology on March 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You’ve probably seen the earlier version of this video. The updated 2008 version (5 minutes long) is below. The information presented is mind boggling. Do you have an answer for the question posed at the end?
Termites Hold Key to Biofuel?
Posted in science news, sustainability on September 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As unlikely as it sounds, termites might provide a partial solution to our energy needs. Lisa Margonelli reports in The Atlantic: But where humans have failed, the termite succeeds—spectacularly. A worker termite tears off a piece of wood with its mandibles and lets its guts work on it like a molecular wrecking yard, stripping away [...]
Massive Bowl of Plastic Soup
Posted in sustainability on July 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s convenient. It’s pervasive. And it’s filling our oceans. Plastic. At World Changing, Anna Cummins writes about the work of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation (AMRF). Enormous quantities of plastic trash enter our oceans daily through watersheds, rivers, storm drains and more. We estimate approximately 10,000 pounds of plastic a day flow into the Pacific [...]
New Hampshire’s Changing Human Ecology
Posted in faculty, local, sustainability on May 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The next showing of Communities and Consequences, a film that examines the graying of New Hampshire, will be at Keene State’s Redfern Arts Center, Wednesday, May 14, at 6 p.m. The event includes the hour-long film, followed by a panel discussion, which will be moderated by Steve Chase, and audience Q&A.
