http://www.dartmouth.edu/~tgm A Dartmouth student-run publication focusing on ecological, environmental, sustainable, and other green issues. Mon, 11 Feb 2008 05:31:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.dartmouth.edu/~tgm/2007/12/23/cover-07f/ This past summer, a housemate of mine lent me a book called Wild Fermentation, written by Sandor Ellix Katz and published by the Chelsea Green Publishing Company of White River Junction. It’s at once a recipe book, a history book, and a manifesto, all centered on the various microbial food-making ... http://www.dartmouth.edu/~tgm/2007/12/23/home-made-yogurt/ Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, tells the story of how societies in the past disappeared because they over-exploited their environment. Written by Pulitzer-winning author Jared Diamond, Collapse is a pertinent, probing discussion not only of how societies have failed, but in what ways a society such as ... http://www.dartmouth.edu/~tgm/2007/12/23/collapse-how-societies-choose-to-fail-or-succeed/ 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. In this issue, a former Green Magazine editor-in-chief discusses how she was converted from a debutante into a crunchy activist. ... http://www.dartmouth.edu/~tgm/2007/12/23/saving-the-land-we-love/ I spent the month of February, in of 2007, learning to farm organically. I was, almost literally, in la-la land. My hosts Suzanne and Alvaro moved there with their six children after fleeing Chile for political reasons in the 1960’s. The “town” of Lalla, located in a dry area east ... http://www.dartmouth.edu/~tgm/2007/12/23/organic-farming-in-the-land-down-under/ Note from the editors: This article was originally published in The Green Magazine back in fall of 2006, when the Focus the Nation event was more than a year off. It was prescient then, and has never been more timely than it is now. Sustainable Dartmouth, the College’s umbrella environmentalist ... http://www.dartmouth.edu/~tgm/2007/12/23/focus-the-nation-on-climate-change/ Even though images in the pool seem so blurry, grasp the main thing” – Rilke Since leaving Dartmouth, I have been lucky enough to find regular nine-to-five jobs that pay me to help save the planet. Granted, I don’t get paid that much, and I actually do a lot of the same ... http://www.dartmouth.edu/~tgm/2007/12/23/turning-green/ http://www.dartmouth.edu/~tgm/2006/10/29/cover-06f/ A little over a year ago, coinciding with the administration’s creation of the Sustainability Office, students, grad students, and some administration members from different environmentally concerned campus groups decided to create an inter-organizational forum for sustainable action, called Sustainable Dartmouth. The origins of SD, or Sustainable Dartmouth, remain steeped in ... http://www.dartmouth.edu/~tgm/2006/10/29/sustainable-move-out-success/ Last fall, Amory Lovins visited Dartmouth to speak on economics, engineering, and environmentalism; he filled Filene Auditorium and two overflow rooms. That was two terms ago, and campus today is not thinking much about that speech. But maybe they should be. The talk was based on a book, “Natural Capitalism,” which ... http://www.dartmouth.edu/~tgm/2006/10/29/natural-capitalism-by-a-lovins-p-hawkin-and-h-lovins/ Global warming has been called “the challenge of a generation.” It has made national and international headlines as a growing, and, in many instances, an immediate crisis. By altering global temperature and weather patterns it has caused prolonged droughts in some areas and heavy monsoons in others; it has seriously ... http://www.dartmouth.edu/~tgm/2006/10/29/facing-the-climate-challenge-one-college-at-a-time/ The climate debate is no longer centered on the question, “is it happening?” but rather “what are the specific effects going to be?” “are we seeing some of these effects already?” and “at what rate do we have to curb our greenhouse gas emissions to stabilize the climate for future ... http://www.dartmouth.edu/~tgm/2006/10/29/national-grassroots-campus-mobilization/ The world’s wild fisheries are being depleted at a rate much faster than they can be restocked, so aquaculture, which is being employed to supplement the shrinking supply of wild fish, is the world’s fastest-growing food sector. However aquaculture in some cases aggravates rather than redresses the problems of over ... http://www.dartmouth.edu/~tgm/2006/10/29/aquaculture-in-the-world-and-at-the-dartmouth-organic-farm/ [Note: For didactic, polemical, and provocative purposes, in this piece I imply a questionable/dubious opposition between (1) explicitly service-oriented, perhaps professional or semi-professional policy-types and (2) those who “actually get out there a lot.” One should not be so naive as to believe that a single individual may not embody ... http://www.dartmouth.edu/~tgm/2006/05/26/the-back-door-to-service-2/ A Footprint Up Your... Full disclosure: I hate the concept of the Ecological Footprint. It’s overly simplistic, vague, and too often mistaken for a legitimate metric of sustainability. That said, it’s one more test that Dartmouth students score pretty well on, and for that reason alone it’s worth looking at. The Ecological ... http://www.dartmouth.edu/~tgm/2006/05/04/the-moderately-sized-green/