Upon entering my freshman year, I had grand intentions of following the pre-medical path. However, the appeal of a career in medicine (combined with the usual parental encouragement) couldn’t overturn my affinity for design, specifically in architecture. I struggled to validate architecture in the eyes of the other liberal arts (surely there must have been […]
Each year, American colleges and universities hand out design degrees by the thousands.
Credentials in hand, an army of young architects and urban planners, engineers and product designers enter the job market and, with a little luck, begin to practice their professions. But what exactly is the “system” within which they are practicing? Have their college […]
It’s an exciting time for environmental sustainability at Dartmouth! Green buildings,sustainability in courses, a campus sustainability coordinator, and lots of student and faculty mterest in sustainability … all this represents a new era of increased interest and activity in many environmental aspects of life at Dartmouth. This in turn presages a profound increase in awareness […]
For several decades now, ecotourism has been touted as a means of stemming the loss of biodiversity around the world by replacing the economic growth achieved via extractive industries and subsistence activities with growth realized through low impact tourism. National governments, major international development agencies, multilateral lending banks, and transnational environmental organizations have all jumped […]
On November 3, 2004, at II: 10 a.m., Senator John Kerry called President George Bush. Minutes after, word went out across news wires and the Internet: Kerry was conceding the election. This would not be another 2000; the presidency would not be left hanging for weeks and months of uncertainty.
Instead, in 2004, George W. Bush […]
There is something about the state of Califomia that draws Easterners to visit and explore. It may be a combination of the sun and the relaxed attitude that gives people the itch to move West, or perhaps it is the prevailing sense of “wildness” and unknown. Whatever the case, I was drawn out West this […]
Thoreau said, “Let us first be as simple and well as Nature ourselves.” His words reflect and inform what I plan to write. Calvin (from Calvin and Hobbes) said, “When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.” His words - wise as they are - do not.
When I decided to come to Dartmouth, most people […]
Dear Green Magazine,
I recently read Silvina Pugliese’s opinion essay “Not So Green Eggs and Ham” in the winter issue of The Green Magazine. I am sure that her facts are all accurate and that they paint a clear picture of how unsustainable commercial feedlot meat production is. That said, to claim that vegetarianism or veganism […]
In my humble opinion, Michael Pollan is not just a botanist, but also a philosopher, a sociologist, and a poet. As the blurb on the back of his book, The Botany of Desire, says, “In telling the stories of four familiar species [of plants], Pollan illustrates how the plants have evolved to satisfy humankind’s most […]
Man kind takes pride in finding intelligent ways to overcome obstacles without realizing that the solutions are already available in nature. We have to turn to the living world; natural wisdom was shaped through millions of years of evolution, perfecting products and processes for specific functions. For ages, For ages, mankind neglected the lessons to […]
SUSTAINABILITY THINK TANK
The Sustainability Think Tank, located in East Wheelock, is a pilot living-and-Iearning opportunity for four student interns doing projects related to aspects of sustainability. Projects can be research-based or community service-based, and the program is supported by the Tucker Foundation and the East Wheelock Residential Cluster. Current interns include Sarah Uhl ‘07, […]
Lee Lynd, Thayer School of Engineering
Oil is out. Whether it runs out in 10 years or 100, there will be a time in the foreseeable future when we cannot get any more oil. What then will fuel our cars? And maybe we shouldn’t wait for the oil to be gone before we make a switch […]
I have been fortunate to have been friends with Kathy Fallon Lambert ‘90 for more than a decade. One of the things which have impressed me about Kathy is that she gets involved when she sees an important cause or issue - whether it be working as an undergrad to help raise energy conservation awareness […]
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