When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans "it was like filling up a bath tub without a drain and taking the water out with a straw...My family has lived here the past 200 years--where am I supposed to go?" --New Orleans Citizen.

How do we respond to a National Disaster?

Over the break, ENTS faculty and staff visited the Gulf Coast for one week. In the hopes of creating an off-campus studies program and providing an opportunity for coursework development, we saw just how complicated and challenging it can be to truly build a sustainable city. Check out this power point to read what we learned from the Army Corps of Engineers, local Geologists, the NAACP, and local environmental and volunteer groups.

February was officially called energy month at Carleton College, but for most Carls it was better known as Dorm Wars. Modeled after a similar program at Oberlin College, Dorm Wars pitted dorms against one another to see which buildings could reduce their per capita energy usage most drastically over the month. The winners were Goodhue at 22.2 percent and Asia House at 40.1 percent, reports facilities communications specialist Gloria Heinz.

“Can someone remind me what we’ve talked about, what decisions we’ve been making?” Carleton junior Cailey Gibson of Shrewsbury, Vermont, asks the room full of eager grade-schoolers.

Non-renewable energy, organic versus corporate farms, and healthy snacks, answer the students in Ellen Paulsen’s fourth and fifth grade class at Nerstrand Elementary. Paulsen’s students are having their last Kids for Conservation class and reflecting on what they’ve learned.

ENTS Senior Capstone, Fall 2005

Recycled Air -- Environmental Radio Show on KRLX 88.1 FM

by Emily Schwing

• The Green Roof Project
• Fall in the Cowling Arboretum

ENTS Junior Colloquium, Fall 2005

The Development of Coffee Cultivation Across Tanzania as Exemplified by the Bukoba and Moshi Regions

by Gloria Jimenez

The Green Piece -- Rethinking Carleton’s Paper Use Policies

The Green Piece -- Improving Environmental Education at Carleton

The Green Piece -- The Grass Is Always Greener...on a Green Roof

The Green Piece -- St. Olaf Leads Carleton in Sustainability Efforts

The Green Piece -- Eating Locally

ENTS Independent Study, Spring 2005

Carleton Green Roof Project

by Miranda Fix, Jake Gold, Dave Holman, Andrew Kaplan, and Jason Lord

ENTS Independent Study, Spring Break 2005

• Day 1- 3
• Day 4-15

by David Holman, Ryan Imhoff, Dana Kraus, Emily LeVine, and Chris Petit