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Emma Redfoot

Tea Party climate change deniers funded by BP and other major polluters | Environment |... - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...a-party-climate-change-deniers

Tea Party climate change

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  • Emma Redfoot on 26 Oct 10
     
    Discussion of the money networks surrounding The Tea Party.  This paper tries to argue that the support that large companies have towards the Tea Party also have interests in polluting.
Julia Huggins

Telling the truth about climate change is good politics - 2 views

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climate change politics climate

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  • Julia Huggins on 26 Oct 10
     
    A plea for more initiative on both sides of the political fence to start talking about climate change honestly and openly. With the current political mess around this though, I again question whether or not politics really is the place for environmental action.
  • Zach Holz on 26 Oct 10
     
    (I think you pasted the wrong link... unless you want us to go to our gmail pages...)
  • Julia Huggins on 26 Oct 10
     
    Well I cant delete it now that "someone else has commented on it" haha. Here's the link: http://www.grist.org/article/2010-10-08-telling-the-truth-about-climate-change-is-good-politics
Micah Leinbach

Biosphere 2 - 0 views

www.ted.com/...ynter_life_in_biosphere_2.html

techology science

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  • Micah Leinbach on 26 Oct 10
     
    Classic environmental experiment, complete with social drama, business plots, and accusations of meddling by cultish groups. The video touches more on the idea of whether or not an alternative biosphere is possible. Interesting to note that this one relied heavily on fossil fuels - it was not entirely a closer system then, as far as my limited research tells me. Still a very intriguing experiment, for better or for worse.
Julia Huggins

Ending Hunger in Africa - 1 views

www.worldwatch.org/6527

agriculture sustainability food Africa hunger

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  • Julia Huggins on 26 Oct 10
     
    This article highlights a new solution that's "already being spear-headed by farmers on the ground." It preserves biodiversity, alleviates hunger, addresses malnutrition, protects against drought, and produces sustainable yields... a miracle GMO? No... traditional vegetables? Who knew? "Many indigenous vegetables use less water than hybrid varieties and some are resistant to pests and disease without the use of chemical inputs, which are expensive both financially and environmentally." Does is seem surprising, odd, and even a bit backwards that the idea of using traditional crops and biodynamic farming is presented as a new and innovative idea? "While what we eat is important, what may be even more essential over the long term is preserving knowledge about how to plant, grow, and cook what we eat." It MAY be more essential...?
Micah Leinbach

Leasing the Sun - 0 views

www.csmonitor.com/...leasing-the-sun

energy technology economics

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  • Micah Leinbach on 25 Oct 10
     
    An example of how alternative economic models (or even longstanding ones, applied to a new product) can make things like clean energy more feasible for people, even if the initial costs of installation, production, or what not remain the same. Important to remember that how you move things of value around matters, perhaps just as much as what the values are in the first place? If nothing else, the importance of looking at things in a new way, allowing for more options.
  • Micah Leinbach on 25 Oct 10
     
    For the record, if I understood Richard Bettega of facilities correctly, a lease-based program similar to this is what is behind our current solar panels on Pamplin. If a wealthy enough investor can be found, we'll be starting up another program here on South Campus or above the swimming pool. I'm not sure on the details, but they're along the lines of this.
Emma Redfoot

Science Friday Archives: Healthy Eating - 1 views

www.sciencefriday.com/...201010083

science food energy

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  • Emma Redfoot on 24 Oct 10
     
    I found this discussion very applicable to Environmental studies symposium.  It discusses not only why Americans do not eat healthy as well as how much energy americans waste by throwing away foods.  Annually America throws away as much energy in food as Switzerland uses for all energy purposes.
Emma Redfoot

Genetically Modified Crops - 0 views

www.sciencefriday.com/...201003121

technology food monsanto genetically modified Africa India

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  • Emma Redfoot on 24 Oct 10
     
    This story provided a helpful context around genetically modified foods. Ira, from Science Friday, interviewed people in the academic, private (monsanto), scientific, social, and charitable (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) participants in the discussion surrounding genetically modified foods. I am someone who intrinsically thinks genetically modified foods are a good idea, though I do take issue with what are rumored to be the current regulatory practices. This story discusses the realities of the problems facing genetically modified foods and some of the research trying to deduce appropriate solutions.
Zach Holz

Collective Action Against the Loud Sun Chip Bag; Or, Why we Are Doomed - 0 views

motherjones.com/...k-attack-sunchips-cans-eco-bag

sustainability food

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  • Zach Holz on 23 Oct 10
     
    In this Mother Jones piece, we learn about how consumers angry about Frito Lay's noisy new SunChip bag -- which, as the company touts on their website, is 100% compostable, and which you can actually watch it happen over the course of 14 weeks in your backyard compost pile -- have somehow applied enough of their angst against the company, and have gotten them to drop the noisy bag. Most likely because they couldn't hear the television over it. The author also has some interesting discussion of aesthetic concerns in our consumer choices from fluorescent lights to plant fiber bags, and how sometimes, at the root, it appears we value softer light and quieter bags more than we do environmental impact.
Micah Leinbach

Saving the rainforest by cutting it? - 0 views

www.globalpost.com/...logging-amazon-rainforest

deforestation sustainability

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  • Micah Leinbach on 23 Oct 10
     
    If its going to be used anyway, it might as well be sustainable use? I think that is the general argument in favor of this plan. Just an interesting idea to ponder, and it gives us something other than food and climate to talk about.
Micah Leinbach

Another Food Issue - Food Safety - 0 views

www.csmonitor.com/...lobal-menu-off-the-recall-list

food agriculture sustainability health pollution law

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  • Micah Leinbach on 23 Oct 10
     
    Not totally environmental, but it definitely relates to the symposium. I feel like we talked about ethics and economics a lot more than safety, but here is a compelling look at another issue in today's food system. Complete with photo gallery: http://www.csmonitor.com/CSM-Photo-Galleries/In-Pictures/From-Field-to-Fork-The-foreign-and-domestic-food-chain
Jim Proctor

Take Yale's quiz about environmental knowledge and see how green you are | OregonLive.com - 0 views

www.oregonlive.com/...the_yale_quiz_about_envir.html

climate global warming survey

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  • Jim Proctor on 22 Oct 10
     
    Wait a second, I just looked at the entire quiz and the whole thing is about climate change. And more than a few questions were a bit vague.  Hmmm..."environmental knowledge"..."how green you are"...
  • Zach Holz on 22 Oct 10
     
    The survey is legitimate (sort of... a bunch of the questions could use reworking, and the way they are asked is really misleading), but the title that the Oregonian chose is awful. I'm not sure how much it adds to the correlation of people associating climate change only with environmentalism (I think this was just a really poorly chosen headline, done by someone who is unfamiliar with issues), but I do think it is very interesting regarding the article from Grist that Julia posted recently on what to call people who care about climate change. And... this wasn't even close to a "quiz", as the Oregonian decided to call it. It's most certainly a survey (given the abundance of the likert scale in the questions), and it definitely doesn't test "environmental knowledge". The survey appears to be prodding for uncertainty, and controversy even. I think they will get polarized results, and I also think that these results will be that way because of how incredibly thoroughly climate change has been politicized.
  • Julia Huggins on 23 Oct 10
     
    I like these readers' comments: portlandiowa October 22, 2010 at 8:04AM "The researchers gave more than half of those who answered their quiz a grade of "F."" Probably those that didn't answer with the same personal opinions as the researchers on the cause of global warming. An engaged citizen October 22, 2010 at 10:07AM There's the problem right there, portlandiowa - those who are confused about the difference between theology (a system of beliefs) and science. Or even worse, those who think SCIENTISTS are confused between the two. I dunno.... I might agree with portlandiowa. And I'm a Bio/Chem Major??
Micah Leinbach

Biotech Backlash - 0 views

www.csmonitor.com/...Signs-of-a-biotech-backlash

technology agriculture food news

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  • Micah Leinbach on 21 Oct 10
     
    Interesting facts and information about the mainstream perceptions of biotech produced foods, GMO, and the like. On one side, they've got a huge percentage of the market cornered (86% I think), which likely strikes fear into the heart of many anti-biotech folk. On the other hand, you have a lot of scientists saying that GMO crops are no more likely to produce more than conventional - why then, are we doing it? To stop weeds, that are already coming back with greater resistance? However you analyze it, an interesting article (and a recommended source - people often write off the Christian Science Monitor because of the first word in its name, but its not a religious news source, it is very high quality, and they have people reporting from all over the world. They do very good analysis of global energy issues, and I would highly reccomend their coverage of China's growing green economy. They've done a lot of work on that)
  • Julia Huggins on 21 Oct 10
     
    "What Monsanto's fall from grace reveals about the GMO seed industry" http://www.grist.org/article/2010-10-12-what-monsantos-fall-from-grace-reveals-abo-the-gmo-seed-industry
  • Julia Huggins on 23 Oct 10
Lu'ukia Nakanelua

Hawaii governor candidates want cleaner energy faster - 0 views

www.mauinews.com/...ant-cleaner-energy-faster.html

ecological modernization energy

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  • Lu'ukia Nakanelua on 22 Oct 10
     
    As the elections in Hawai'i approach, candidates are jumping on the "green" bandwagon to pioneer alternative sources of energy. Will they follow through on it? Will the consequences weigh out the benefits. In Hawai'i, we've been having lots of problems w/ clean energy because it disrupts native ecosystems, in turn reducing biodiversity. How are we able to balance the needs of humans and still keeping in mind the intrinsic value other living systems?
Julia Huggins

The Dish on Disposable Dishes - 2 views

earth911.com/...the-dish-on-disposable-dishes

sustainability waste

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  • Julia Huggins on 20 Oct 10
     
    We in ENVS are all over the bon for composting waste at catered dinners/events. But do we need that waste in the first place? And what about in the lunch room -- where there's a dishwasher! -- paper cups for the special drinks? Really? And until they stop putting them out in those lines, I'm looking at you, ENVS students; plastic cups are only a few steps away.
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  • Zach Holz on 20 Oct 10
     
    Agreed. Today, though, they just put out a rack of the standard plastic cups in the special drink line. Albeit, there are still the paper cups right next to them... I think this tailors nicely with some of the ideas we were talking about yesterday on companies providing what they deem to be the best for the consumer. I've chatted with some people in the Bon on how they feel about those paper cups being there, and the most common response has been, "well, at least they're compostable," followed by a little shrug. I know the Bon says officially that they have been using paper cups for those special drinks because to use the regular plastic cups would be a new strain on the dishwasher and staff, and an added cost. Even from simply an efficiency standpoint, this argument seems flawed. Surely buying those cups (which are probably sold at a premium, them being sourced from "sustainable resources" and being compostable as well) costs more than running the dishwasher and sanitizer one more time (or, perhaps I am deluded in thinking that the use of the water is less expensive...). I'm curious what level of analysis has actually gone into the decision to use the paper cups, and if the data actually support the statement. Either way, from simply a cursory glance around the Bon, many seem pretty complacent in simply grabbing for what is provided for them.
  • Zach Holz on 20 Oct 10
     
    Here is a link to one of the major cup companies, Solo, who markets the "Bare" paper cup as an alternative to regular cups: http://www.solocup.com/Sustainability/bare_solo_products.html I think their statement, "Since there is no one right answer for everyone, Solo provides a variety of product choices to satisfy differing priorities," is exactly what we would expect a company to say. Consumers have different tastes, and there is no "right answer" for any one of them, so the sustainable cup is just another flavor of disposable dishware. There is an inherent neutrality to this statement, and seems to connote that Solo sees their Bare sustainable line of cups as just another market option to fill a demand.
  • Julia Huggins on 21 Oct 10
     
    Who would be disadvantaged by having to use reusable or compostable cups??? this is why i dont understand economics
  • Lucy Roberts on 21 Oct 10
     
    Not only do the disposable cups in the Bon suck, but at the meet your major events bottled water was served, while there are water fountains just down the hall. I don't get it. And I have a big problem with Maggie's and DoveCote not selling reusable mugs or promoting the fact they have mugs you can use if you stay there.. How can we discourage this practice?
  • Lu'ukia Nakanelua on 22 Oct 10
     
    Lucy I totally get what your saying. I know that Maggies has the reusable mugs but they don't advertise them, however dovecote doesn't--they do have cups though. Maybe that can be a topic we could bring up with the sustainability task force? Jim what do you think?
Lu'ukia Nakanelua

Kauai luxury hotel settles seabird suit - 0 views

www.mauinews.com/...otel-settles-seabird-suit.html

ecology Hawaii biodiversity endangered species

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  • Lu'ukia Nakanelua on 22 Oct 10
     
    St. Regis Princeville Resort settles endangered bird species law suit. They take steps towards maintaining laws.
Julia Huggins

What should we call people who care about climate change and clean energy? - 0 views

www.grist.org/...ut-climate-change-clean-energy

climate change environmentalists energy clean energy

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  • Julia Huggins on 21 Oct 10
     
    I like this article. It solidifies a vague discomfort I've had with the climate emphasis lately. It doesnt say that environmentalists and PCCCCE are mutually exclusive titles, but they should be different. "For one thing, not all environmentalists are primarily PCCCCE (people who care about climate change and clean energy) -- there are still some, believe it or not, who focus on things like land preservation or biodiversity."
  • Julia Huggins on 21 Oct 10
Julia Huggins

Mountaintop Mining Consequences - 0 views

www.sciencemag.org/...148

coal mountain top removal energy pollution health

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  • Julia Huggins on 21 Oct 10
     
    Also known as Mountain Top Removal, this is an emerging environmental concern out there. According to http://www.ilovemountains.org/science/ this scientific study 'confirms what coalfield residents have been saying for years: mountaintop removal's impacts are "pervasive and irreversible," "attempts to regulate [mountaintop removal] practices are inadequate," and that "regulators should no longer ignore rigorous science." '
Julia Huggins

American companies don't want tar-sands oil on their logos - 0 views

www.grist.org/...ands-oil-on-their-logos-creati

energy pollution tar sands canada

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Julia Huggins

First-Ever Solar Project Approved on Public Lands in Nevada - 0 views

www.doi.gov/...-on-Public-Lands-in-Nevada.cfm

energy technology alternative energy

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  • Julia Huggins on 20 Oct 10
     
    Alternative energy on public land, and from the ocean: http://atlanticwindconnection.com/?page_id=37 The solar farm is a government initiative, the wind farm is a private business initiative. I'm relatively econ-illiterate, but I have a hunch that this might make a difference. Those who have a better understanding, what could this mean about the respective success of alternative energy projects?
Julia Huggins

The future of urban agriculture is not about the 10-mile diet - 0 views

www.grist.org/...P1

agriculture sustainability food urban agriculture

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  • Julia Huggins on 20 Oct 10
     
    The theme of our symposium seemed to be: eat regionally, not locally. This article reiterates that with a particular focus on urban agriculture. What seems like a uber-progressive change, may not be the best for farmers and land use, and (this article claims) it wouldnt even work, regardless.
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