Why Yellowbook Isn’t the New Green
I don’t care if they’re 100% recyclable; at Claremont McKenna, recycling them shouldn’t even be an option because we shouldn’t have them in the first place.
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EPA Puts Its Foot on the Coal
The EPA is cracking down on greenhouse gases.
Motley To Charge For To-Go Cups UPDATED
The Motley has elected to charge a one dollar surcharge for each compostable to-go cup sold.
Guiltless Coffee?
With the impending announcement about changes to the Motley’s sustainability policies just a day away, it seems appropriate to share a few observations on the coffee trade. Oh, and Tuesday was National Coffee Day!
It’s problematic that each cup of coffee (the world’s second-largest commodity after oil) is accused of destroying 3 cm^3 of rainforest. The living conditions of the growers aren’t that spectacular either, and most struggle to earn enough to eat. What can caffeine addicts do?
Change Coming to Scripps's Motley
All week, the Port Side has been hearing snippets of conversations about big changes going on at Scripps’s Motley at the View.
Though details are not yet available…
Is Politics Making You Fat?
In today’s Washington Post, George Will discusses the connection between Iowa politics and obesity. According to Michael Pollan, the post-World War II surplus of ammonium nitrate — an ingredient in both explosives and fertilizer — resulted in a rapid increase in agricultural production, behind which American consumption lagged. Government subsidies continue to exacerbate the surplus, [...]
Going Green: Water Preservation at the Claremont Colleges
Planet Green recently published an article about the Navy shower
For those wondering:
a Navy shower is the term used for a water-saving technique that was started in the Navy to help save precious freshwater aboard ships. The basic idea is to hop in the shower, get wet all over, turn off the water while soaping up, [...]
Fallows's Policy Prescription
There is no strong reason that Barack Obama or John McCain should make a campaign stop in California. They both know who will win our true blue state’s 55 electoral votes (Hint: he is tall, healthy, and proficient in using “the Google”). Campaigning heavily here would misallocate resources and personnel that both candidates desperately need [...]
CMC, Greenest of Them All?
“We’re number one! We’re number one!” That chant seems fairly characteristic for us self-assured CMCers. Political trivia, economic know-how, or internship placement–no contest, but energy conservation? Much to my surprise, CMC won the 5C Dorm Energy Challenge. My disbelief may sound strange as I was one of the organizers for the project at CMC, but [...]
A Confused Environmentalist: Gregg Easterbrook
I went to see Gregg Easterbrook (Senior Editor of The New Republic, and contributor to the NY Times, ESPN.com, Slate, …) at the Athenaeum recently. I was pretty excited to hear him because he’s a respected journalist (I’m interested in a career in journalism) and he was speaking on an environmental topic (I’ve [...]
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