Trip to Portland
I just came back from Portland, OR. Portland has gotten a lot of good press for their city-wide composting program and strict zoning regulations that have curtailed urban sprawl. The first thing I...
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I spent the weekend house sitting my inlaws place in a very affluent neighborhood of Neenah, WI. I was walking the dogs and saw a house for sale that had a sort of mission style that caught my eye. As...
View ArticleLearn More about Water Quality in the Fox — TONIGHT!
This Monday, Feb 8, 2010, at 7:00-8:30 pm, there will be a presentation at the Paper Discovery Center. Erin Hanson from the DNR will be discussing Fox River water quality. Consider making a fun evening...
View ArticleFarm City Community Read Starts Soon!
Does meeting with fellow students and faculty to talk about running a farm in the ghettos of Oakland, dumpster diving to feed pigs, and corralling runaway turkeys in downtown Oakland sound like fun?...
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Garbage in the Gallery
If you were in the Warch campus center during the first week of March, you might have noticed a pretty trashy display in the third floor gallery…or should I say, “recyclable-y” display. The giant...
View ArticleWash your clothes in cold water!
Did your know that 90% of the energy used in most washers is used to generate hot water? Did you know that most detergents perform no better in warm or hot water than in cold? Your clothes (regardless...
View ArticleGreenfire, Lawrence’s student environmental organization, is bringing Ralph...
His talk is entitled, “The Great Conversion: Environmentalism over Corporatism: University Students Did it Once (1970), Can They Do it Again?” He’ll be speaking at Memorial Chapel. Doors open at 6:45...
View Article“The Greening of Higher Education” — Spoerl Series Coming Soon!
Barbara Gray Spoerl Lectures in Science and Society “The Greening of Higher Education” “Sustainability and the Liberal Arts” Nan Jenks-Jay Dean of Environmental Affairs, Middlebury College Wednesday...
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