Staring behind the glass of an Odwalla cooler, I am making an agonizing decision: Strawberry C Monster, or a Mango Tango smoothie? After a few minutes of taste-bud indecision, the orange allure of the Mango Tango wins out, and I reach in and grab a bottle and head to the checkout line. […]
As we sat chatting in the beautifully appointed dining room, a fresh gust of wind shook the trees outside. We all cast a half-questioning, half-anxious look at the clouds tempting rain outside. Although we had heard reports of heavy rain the night before elsewhere in Iowa, the half inch already received here was […]
What is Geothermal Energy?
Geothermal, or Earth energy, is created from sources of heat deep under the Earth’s foremost layer. As the Earth’s core exudes heat to the surrounding rock, magma is created and flows under the planet’s surface. Since the liquid magma is less dense than the surrounding solid rock, the rocks begin to shift […]
It has always been a belief of mine that sometime within my lifetime, ecologically sustainable business will experience an economic boom. I maintain that as the myriad effects of fossil fuel (ab)use, land degradation, and pollution become increasingly apparent, public demand for “green practices” will eventually force a significant government and market response. If you […]
Imagine New Year’s Day inHanover, year 2100. Bundled up, you trek to the snow sculpture on the green. The warning of “The Lorax” was heeded – people like you began caring an awful lot – and humanity’s grandest finest achievement was got – planetary sustainability. Not only had Dartmouth College and the town of Hanover […]
The Land of Fire and Ice has a national joke: “What should you do if you get lost in an Icelandic forest?” And if you’ve ever been to Iceland, you’ll know the answer: “Stand up.”
Slumped in a Keflavik bus headed to Reykjavik this past July, I glimpsed a moonscape of lava fields and craggy […]
There has been a lot of talk lately about making changes in our energy systems. Fossil fuels are facing a number of challenges including rising costs and their inevitable release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Current climatic studies reflect a mounting destabilization of our weather patterns and a general rise in average global temperatures. […]
In the TGM’s first editorial, Jeffrey Kemnitz ’03 wrote that he wanted the publication to evolve as “the face of environmentalism at Dartmouth.” Well, welcome to evolution.
For those of you that don’t know, TGM used to be published once a term as an 8×11.5 magazine. By switching over to a more conventional tabloid format, we’ve […]
Sustainable Dartmouth comes as the newest and potentially strongest environmental coalition on campus since the 1960s, when student and alumni activists organized the Environmental Studies Division of the DOC. With the recent hiring of Dartmouth’s first sustainability coordinator as a starting point, Sustainable Dartmouth is uniting the resources of any and all campus groups with […]
Erin Rowland ‘93 is the Public Relations spokesperson for Planned Parenthood’s New England chapter. After graduating from Dartmouth, she worked for ten years at the Public Land Trust Nature Conservancy creating a public affairs program. Rowland’s interest in this field was inspired while learning about women’s health issues and reproductive rights in Kenya […]
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