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Welcome back to the start of the school year! We’ll have a number of events of interest this fall. Some are sure to come up later, but here’s a sampling: The Art Museum will be presenting a video, Tooba, in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

 The Scot Center has been awarded LEED Gold certification. First: Hooray! By obtaining LEED Gold certification for the new Scot Center, the College of Wooster is signaling that it values environmental sustainability and is committed to finding ways t… Continue reading →

When we talk about environmental sustainability, we tend to think about actions that protect and preserve ecosystem processes. But from a different perspective, an essential requirement of sustainability is education:  teaching people about the enviro… Continue reading →

I thought Rick Santorum was going to be the anti-environmental presidential candidate, with his talk about global warming as a hoax perpetrated by left-wing scientists. But now I think Mitt Romney has an oar in this pool as well.  Apparently … C… Continue reading →

Last month I was fortunate to visit the  French Museum of Natural History in Paris (the Musee Nationale d’Histoire Naturelle, MNHN), where there is a great deal of  interesting work going on. At the lab I visited, a number of … Continue r… Continue reading →

The current exhibition at the Wooster art gallery focuses on work by LTL architects, some of which was designed to address a problem:  the rising sea levels projected to result from global climate change. Another exhibit is an installation of … … Continue reading →

Last year I posted about a workshop whose goal was to define environmental literacy. The workshop concluded that environmental literacy was not just about knowledge but also required some element of motivation or involvement. (The document that emerged… Continue reading →

In a New York Times piece earlier this week, columnist Thomas Edsall interviewed conservative scholars to ask what they thought the left got “right”. (An earlier piece asked liberals what the right got right.)  A common theme was that lib… Continue reading →

Biology professor Rick Lehtinen named two frog species last summer: http://www.wooster.edu/News-and-Events/News-Releases/2011/June/Lehtinen-Frogs Geology professor Mark Wilson has named several (though they are all extinct): http://woostergeologists.sc… Continue reading →

One source of environmental stress that many people aren’t aware of comes from the water that runs across the ground during rainstorms.  That water does what water typically does, which is go down: either into the storm drains or absorbed &#8230… Continue reading →