By LETTIE STRATTON Are you confused about how to properly recycle your glass bottle in the student center? Do you simply not recycle because you heard that everything eventually ends up in the same bin anyway? Fear no more! SLU will soon be adopting a new three-bin recycling system, according to Louise Gava, coordinator of [...]
L.I.G.H.T. House inspirational quote of the week: “In a gentle way, you can shake the world” –Gandhi L.I.G.H.T. – Living Inspirationally Growing Healthy Together The L.I.G.H.T. house stands to light a path promoting healthy lifestyles for individuals and the community in both local and global arenas centered around the ideas of balance and awareness of [...]
By LETTIE STRATTON Ten SLU students and two professors spent three weeks of this past summer in India. Funded by the Mellon grant, they conducted a class called Engaging India’s Globalization while abroad. “The idea was to study sustainable agriculture in India and examine how it ties into globalization,” Emma Rentz ’12 said. Upon returning [...]
By LETTIE STRATTON and SAMANTHA FOSTER Governor Cuomo will decide in December whether or not to allow hydraulic fracturing in the state of New York. Often referred to as “fracking,” hydraulic fracturing is the process of extracting natural gas from underground rock formations to be used as an energy source. According to long-time Environmental Action [...]
By LETTIE STRATTON Representatives of the Ugandan Water Project (UWP), along with the SLU and Potsdam communities, collected over $7,000 during a week-long fund raising effort. This money will provide two brand new water tanks for struggling Ugandan towns that previously had limited or no access to clean drinking water. The prevalent water-borne diseases are [...]
By OLIVIA MCMANUS The education system we have come to know, appreciate, and strive within is changing–and fast. We are unknowingly living in an exploitative educational environment, which is slowly draining our opportunities for creative and introspective thought. We are being primed as political and global consumers, and those who do not economically fit within [...]
Last weekend marked the second annual Local Living Festival, organized by the Sustainable Living Project, that was held at the Cornell Cooperative Extension Learning Farm. Faculty, staff, and students from St. Lawrence and other institutions, as well as community members, farmers, and area locavores all came out to support the event. The festival featured dozens [...]
By JASMINE WALLACE Three St. Lawrence students biked to the Adirondacks and back again in a carbon-neutral Peak Weekend trip. “We wanted to show that fossil fuels aren’t necessary for outdoor recreation,” said Andrew Skaggs ’12, and in completing the 67-mile bike ride to and from the Adirondacks, the group was able to prove that [...]
Matthew Potel, a 22-year-old environmental studies major and co-president of the outing club at Binghamton University, died while hiking Mt. Colden via the Trap Dike in the Adirondack Mountains last Friday. Potel was an experienced hiker and reportedly died from a cerebral hemorrhage when he fell from the Crux, the second waterfall of the climb. [...]
Despite a busy schedule after traveling to San Sebastian, Spain and Paris, France, artist and activist Drew Matott has been on campus all week hosting an open papermaking studio. His current work, the Combat Paper Project (combatpaper.org) ties in with the current Brush Art Gallery exhibition “Remembering 9/11,” which is on display through October 22. [...]
