Author Archives: sclayton

If you haven’t looked at the live feed on how much energy the solar roof is generating, check it out here . It won’t save the world, but it’s a step in the right direction!   Continue reading →

All this talk about the garden makes me think about the end result:  food. There’s a lot of talk about the role of food in sustainability, and I recently heard that Northeast Ohio is actually a center for the local … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This Sunday the Environmental Psychology class, along with a few representatives from a Chemistry and Climate Change class, visited the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, where two special exhibits are featured.  One is a regular museum exhibit on c… Continue reading →

There are so many students working on topics relevant to sustainability, from many different angles. Communication will keep you from duplicating the work of other groups, and may identify ways in which you can help each other. At the very … Cont… Continue reading →

“We must cultivate our garden.”  Voltaire, Candide Last Wednesday, with great fanfare if not great weather, saw the opening of the College’s new teaching garden on the corner of College and Pearl streets.  The garden has multiple po… Continue reading →

The environmental studies brownbag series will run on the first and third Fridays of the month at noon in Morgan 309.  We’ll start off on September 16th with Dr. Susan Clayton presenting “Communicating Climate Change.”  All are welc… Continue reading →

While in Austin, I took the opportunity to view North America’s largest urban colony of bats under the Congress Avenue bridge. Every evening about dusk they emerge in a swarm that takes 10-15 minutes just to fly out. As a … Continue reading… Continue reading →

I was recently in Austin for the meeting of the Ecological Society of America. They’re very concerned about threats to ecosystems, and very aware that they need to cross disciplinary boundaries in order to address these threats. They brought me &#823… Continue reading →

from guest blogger Dr. Melissa Schultz: Believe it or not, the fall semester is just around the corner – approximately 3 weeks away!  One of the courses I will be teaching this fall is Introductory Chemistry (CHEM 110) taught in … Continue rea… Continue reading →

I said in an earlier post that the glaciers would be gone by 2030.  The prediction has been updated and they’re now saying it may be as soon as 2020. You can find the article as well as some pictures … Continue reading → Continue reading →