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SciWo's Storytime: Lakes and Ponds

Category: books

This week on SciWo's Storytime, we're reading about Lakes and Ponds in a book by Cassie Mayer, from the same series as an earlier episode about oceans. While the text of this series of books is simple, I'm finding that...

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It's spring, and bears are in the air.

Category: environment

One my friends lives outside of Anchorage, Alaska and recently had a black bear pay a visit to her backyard. Now her preschoolers are obsessed with bears. Minnow too has a bit of a bear obsession at the moment, though...

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In praise of NASA's Earth Observatory

Category: environment

Let me now sing the praises of NASA's Earth Observatory, a phenomenal web-based public education resource that is celebrating its 10th birthday today. Every day for the past decade, NASA has been uploading spectacular remote sensing images and astronaut photographs...

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Earth Day Resolutions

Category: SciWo says...

Alice and I have been talking about the big and small ways that universities could act to improve the environment, but Earth Day is also about making personal changes to lessen your environmental impact. So it's fitting that Mike Dunford...

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Thinking about big ideas on Earth Day

Category: environment

Today for me consisted of one PhD defense (I was on the committee; it was successfully defended, congrats Dr. Ken!), a meeting about ADVANCE, 2 hrs of class, another PhD meeting that I'm on the committee of, and then a...

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How can universities get lean? and green?

Category: environment

Like many other public universities around the country, Mystery U has been hit hard by the economic hard times. Most of this year, we heard ominous rumblings that (at some point) there would be a budget reversion, i.e., we'd have...

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Purdue Engineering Impact: a surprisingly cool link on a Friday afternoon

Category: environment

So every university has some kind of publication it uses to connect with alumni to say, "Look at all this cool stuff we're doing, don't you want to give us money in memory of the cool stuff we did when...

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Environmental ads with graphic flair and gripping messages

Category: environment

"15 km2 of rain forest disappears every minute." (WWF, Denmark) The DailyGreen has posted 11 environmental ads from around the world that are arresting to the eye and the mind. Take a look at all of them and then...

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Didja see the Perseid meteor shower?

Category: environment

Astrodyke reminds us that we're mid-Perseid meteor shower these days. I actually woke up at 3:30 am this morning (NOT on purpose) and thought about going to look, but I was too dog tired from the move out (move in...

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Green rating for colleges from Princeton Review

Category: environment

The New York Times reports that the Princeton review is including a "green rating" in their next ranking of colleges in the US. While I think college rankings is pretty much a popularity contest, I think this incorporation of some...

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