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Carleton featured in Audubon Magazine
September 4, 2009 at 11:51 amCarleton has been featured in Audubon Magazine's September/October special issue on Green Design!
Field Notes from the Tiger-less Tiger Reserve
August 28, 2009 at 11:52 amOrion writes about tigers, or the lack of tigers, in a reserve in Myanmar.
Myanmar Government Accidently Lowers Pollution
August 12, 2009 at 8:11 amOrion writes again and describes how sometimes using local resources encourages more than just foreign independence.
Energy and water consumption data for campus buildings now online
August 4, 2009 at 8:39 amWant to know how much electricity your favorite building on campus used in March 2007? Now you can look it up online!
Emissions Standards: Exporting Pollution
August 3, 2009 at 9:44 amAnother post from Orion, this time about exporting old, inefficient technologies to foreign countries. Myanmar gets Japan's leftovers, but what is the US doing to stop its own unwanted items from entering countries with lower standards as well?
Carleton's plans for a second wind turbine in the Northfield News
July 29, 2009 at 10:51 amSam Friedman '09, here in Northfield for the summer, has gotten an article published on the front page of the Northfield News about Carleton's plans to install a second wind turbine near campus.
Summer in the Arb
July 24, 2009 at 8:14 amNancy and the Arb Crew are hard at work this summer. Here's an update on what they're working on!
Mandalay cracks down on plastic bags
July 23, 2009 at 3:16 pmOrion Martin '11 writes again, and this time discusses plastic-related policy in Burma, Australia, and Bangladesh. If recycling alone isn't a long-term solution to over-consumption of plastic, what is being done to encourage people to cut back?
2008 GHG Emissions Inventory posted
July 15, 2009 at 3:26 pmLast year's greenhouse gas emissions have been calculated and the information is now available. Check it out and compare it to 2007's data and even to other schools!
What's Up with the Carleton Garden?
July 14, 2009 at 7:54 amThe Carleton Farm Interns gave us an update on the gardens near Farm House!
Trash in Yangon, Myanmar
July 6, 2009 at 3:31 pmOrion Martin '11 writes to us as he is volunteer teaching in the city of Yangon, Myanmar! Yangon has no regular garbage removal service. Without garbage trucks and large street cleaning machines to quickly whisk away garbage, residents of Yangon must 'live with their garbage'. Most American communities are able to 'hide' their garbage in massive landfills. Orion has found that the people of Yangon have a more realistic understanding of the garbage they create than most Americans.
