Baby penguins, kittens, and fuzzy ducklings flood Facebook and Instagram with overwhelming cuteness. A panda rolling in the snow can get millions of views on Youtube, yet other less cute and cuddly organisms, such as fungi, are blatantly ignored. Typically, when the topic of fungi is brought up in conversation, it is quickly ended with…
Month: February 2016
Recycle Mania at Chatham
Zachary J. Schmucker, communications and outreach assistant for Chatham University’s Office of Sustainability, introduces us to Recycle Mania and what Chatham University can do to help with the competition.
INTO THE WILD, AGAIN: How Going Off the Grid Can Go Wrong
Journalism major Mike Schroeder recalls his friend’s journey “off the grid” and some of the problems we don’t always consider.
Solar Panels in Pittsburgh
In a recent article published in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette by Diana Nelson Jones, it was stated that the National Weather Service averages 59 sunny days in Pittsburgh each year. The author of this article has had enough of the bad rep’ that this city gets for its weather. In 2007 Diana Nelson Jones started…
Geocaching: Using technology to bring people outdoors
This is the basic premise of Geocaching today. To play, all one has to do is take out their phone or GPS enables device and make a free geocaching account, choose the geocache to look for then start navigating. When the geocache is found, sign the log book and take a nic-nak then post the find online.
Herbariums
by Alison As a child growing up in southwest Florida, I was always sorry to miss out on pressing and preserving brightly colored fall leaves. Perhaps this explains my decision to participate in founding the Eden Hall Ecological Observatory’s Herbarium project. (WP Fraser Herbarium) What is a herbarium? In quick and easy terms, it’s a…
Environmentally Expensive Extractions
Each Extraction Exacts Environmental Expense WATER WOES of CRYING EARTH, RISE UP by Kim Every grade-school child learns that all life on Earth requires three sustainable, basic building blocks: pure, clean liquid water; specific combinations of essential chemicals; and safe, reliable energy. These combined components balance all life cycles in our biome. Some children also…
The Fourth Democratic Debate, Climate Change, and Energy
Note: The fourth Democratic Debate was held on Jan. 17, 2016, and this blog post was posted subsequently on Feb. 1, 2016 by Dani Lyons As most of us are already aware, the United States has now stepped into the year where we hire a new president: 2016. As the debates grow increasingly heated, and voters…