The Green Magazine has once again taken over the pages of the Dartmouth Free Press, an infrequent ritual designed to bring a little-known but critical magazine into the Dartmouth limelight.

So stop me if you’ve heard this one: “I’d pay more attention to current events if they weren’t so depressing.” It’s a sentiment that I run into a lot these days and I can understand it: Abramoff, Iraq, George Bush. Every now and then, we’ve all just got to put down the paper. But no […]

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 […]

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 […]

“To be an environmentalist who happens to eat meat is like being a philanthropist who doesn’t happen to give to charity.” -Howard Lyman

The three most commonly cited reasons for being a vegetarian: for the animals, for personal health, and for the environment. Although the first two factors tend to be widely publicized, the latter component […]

Kalahari Desert, Africa: November 13th, 2002

The past two nights here in the Kalahari have been dominated by thunderstorms-big, sprawling masses of darkness that roll in over the desert and beat down windy and relentlessly for a few hours until all suddenly ceases and the storm lumbers on as though it were never there at al1. […]

When I was eight, I arranged to have a special meeting with my elementary school principal to convince her that we needed a compost pile in the backyard of our school. I explained to her how we would collect apple cores and banana peels and put them in a pile to make dirt for the […]

I am part I am part of the generation for which the environment became a front and center issue.

I’ve been involved from a variety of perspectives-government, law firm and now as head of GE’s environmental program initiatives.
As the world has become a much smaller place, and the laws and regulations governing the environment are much […]

This is only our third publication, and the first without Jeff Kemnitz ‘03¬who created the magazine-directing the operation. As I looked through our first two editions, trying to figure out what I wanted to say in this letter, I was inspired by what he said in his first letter from the editor: “I want the […]

I write primarily in response to Peter Colabuono’s article in the Winter 2003 issue of the Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science entitled “The Genetically Modified Food Debate: Misconceptions in labeling.”

In his article, Mr. Colabuono labels as “anti-science, anti-globalization, and anti-technology” those who support the labeling of foods containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs), those who question […]

I’ve had “good intentions” towards “the environment” since I was a little kid. Before coming to Dartmouth, I recycled regularly, volunteered at the Native Plant Nursery, and occasionally ranted about how disgusting SUVs were. Aside from these token concerns, though, I wasn’t especially conscious about living sustainably. I still took excessively long showers, and every […]