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Opinion
Editorial Looking back, looking forward
December 3, 2008Author: [no author name found] No sign marks the coming of winter better than the glow emanating from the library in the wee hours of the morning as students furiously type away the last pages of their theses alongside procrastinators working on that lingering assignment. Amidst this unmistakable omen, ...
OP-ED Giving Thanksgiving new meaning
By Middlebury Campus | December 3, 2008Author: Josh Wessler Each year in November, many people ask themselves: what does Thanksgiving mean? Is it a celebration of giving, or of receiving and being thankful? These questions often lead to a consideration of the historical understanding of the holiday, which emphasizes the bounty of the harvest, ...
Notes from the Desk We Quit! Our valedictory address
By Middlebury Campus | December 3, 2008Author: Scott Greene, James Kerrigan, and Jack Lysohir Valediction val-uh-DIK-shuhn, noun: the action of bidding farewell; a farewell. Consider this our valediction. Impressed with our vocabulary? You shouldn't be. During tonight's ed board meeting (our last, ever, single tear) James' aging IBM think ...
OP-ED Just taste this tomato!
By Middlebury Campus | November 19, 2008Author: John Elder The local food movement has become the catalyst for a new phase of environmentalism. In this regard it builds upon and complements many achievements of American conservation's past century. The wilderness ethic affirmed the beauty and the mutual dependence of all life on earth. The ...
In my Humble Opinion Impact starts personally
By Middlebury Campus | November 19, 2008Author: Daniel Roberts My first thought about environmentalism, "I don't know much about it, and I don't care." Then I realized that this very apathy provides for compelling conversation. Sure, I've always refrained from littering, and separated plastic from paper (thank you, dorm room double trash ...
OP-ED Changing the face of business
By Middlebury Campus | November 19, 2008Author: Blake Mycoskie Social entrepreneurship is not just a trend; it is a movement that is changing the face of business as we know it. The ability to not only connect with your consumer but to connect your consumer to a cause that is greater than their purchase is incredibly powerful. While on The ...
OP-ED Strategic sustainability
By Middlebury Campus | November 19, 2008Author: Tim Spears Completed in the spring of 2006, the College's Strategic Plan, "Knowledge Without Boundaries," sets high standards for environmental stewardship. More than ten recommendations focus specifically on the campus environment, while the College's revised mission statement - another result ...
OP-ED It isn't easy publicizing green
By Middlebury Campus | November 19, 2008Author: Michael McKenna One of the challenges of working in public relations is that whenever you share news with people, they often assume you are trying to 'spin' them. Unfortunately there are many examples of public relations 'flaks' that support this cynical point of view. (Anyone see the recent ...
Notes from the Desk The green/global contradiction
By Middlebury Campus | November 19, 2008Author: Alex Garlick Middlebury is deservedly proud of its status as a global institution; the dozens of international flags flying off of the roof of Voter during commencement is a sight to be seen. It really shows how far some Middlebury students have come. But under the lens of sustainability, it ...
Editorial Why Green?
By Middlebury Campus | November 19, 2008Author: [no author name found] Why the Green Issue? Why not? After a handful of our peer publications (Vanity Fair, Time, The New York Times Magazine) produced their own Green Issues, featuring a more sustainable production process and an emphasis on environmental content, we thought that we should ...
OP-ED In pursuit of sustainability
By Middlebury Campus | November 19, 2008Author: Jack Byrne The current economic turmoil in the world comes with many lessons, some of which we know but seem to have forgotten. A core principle of economics involves the relationship between capital and interest: invest your capital wisely and spend the interest it earns. By some strange mathematics ...
OP-ED Appearances aren't enough
By Middlebury Campus | November 19, 2008Author: Kevin Redmon The mailman delivering to my Washington apartment is not known for his attention to detail. I end up with a lot of other people's magazines this way. Normally I crumple up the pages to stuff into the crumbling masonry of my poorly constructed and very drafty basement room. Yesterday's ...
Notes from the Desk The future of The Campus
By Middlebury Campus | November 19, 2008Author: Jack Lysohir When I speak to alumni that attended Middlebury in the 1980s and 90s, they almost inevitably date themselves by mentioning their "room phones." Whether coordinating for a big party, asking someone out for a drink at Mister Ups, or even performing pranks of epic proportions, phones ...
OP-ED Green's quantatative side
By Middlebury Campus | November 19, 2008Author: Richard Wolfson "Buy an SUV instead of a car," says Bill McKibben, and you'll waste so much energy that "it's like you've decided to leave your refrigerator door open for the next seven years." Shut down the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant, you say, and we can replace it with wind turbines. ...
Letter to the Editor
November 19, 2008Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:Once carbon levels in the atmosphere reach 350 parts per million, drastic changes will occur in the global climate, according to Bill McKibben. The atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration is currently at 387 ppm and the world is in need of a leader who will ...
Educating for a Greener Future
By Guest Contributor | November 19, 2008With all due respect to my fellow faculty members, I'd like to think that Nick Muller and I, with joint appointments in Economics and Environmental Studies, have the best teaching jobs on campus. Our students not only study the great challenges of this century; if we're doing our job, they also acquire ...
OP-ED Journalism's new digital world
By Middlebury Campus | November 19, 2008Author: Robert Schlesinger It's hard to get your mind around the extent to which the information revolution has changed the practice of gathering and relaying information, whether in online newspapers, or magazine stories or even history books (I've written all of the above).You get used to the day-to-day ...
Lupo Fiasco Green art's identity crisis
By Middlebury Campus | November 19, 2008Author: Kate Lupo Environmental art has become ever more popular in a world that wishes to acknowledge and solve the problems of climate change. What is "environmental art" anyway and what sets it apart from other contemporary art? According to GreenMuseum.org, an online collaboration of environmental ...