For all Brown alumni who know that it IS easy being green! Stay abreast of environmentally-focused news, events, jobs, and people both on and off campus. Feel free to post your own green news and photos.
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- Burning the Future: Dirty coal...
Room 106, Urban Environmental Lab, ...
Thursday, October 15 at 12:00pm
Brown Alumni Staying Green Today's BDH includes an article form the Washington Post about growing support for nuclear power in the face of climate change. What are your thoughts on nuclear power as "clean energy"?
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LONDON -- Nuclear power -- long considered environmentally hazardous -- is emerging as perhaps the world's most unlikely weapon against climate change, with the backing of even some green activists who once campaigned against it.
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Check out the Environmental Change Initiative's new Resources page for information on climate change, communicating science, funding, and more!
http://www.brown.edu/Research/ECI/resour
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Links to federal agencies, programs, and foundations that fund environmental change research, policy and educational fellowships.
Brown Alumni Staying Green Get in on this discussion on the Brown Alumni Association's LinkedIn group: Do you have place-based stories about the impacts of climate change in the U.S.?
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Climate Change discussion introduced by Beth Conover '87
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On alum's farm, vegetables are from mars
http://www.browndailyherald.com/on-alum-
Brown Alumni Staying Green Bay area alumni – catch the “Brown is Green” happy hour on Nov. 16 at Shotwell’s Bar (Mission district), 6 to 9 pm. Three ’06 organizers (Amie Vaccaro, Natalya Blumenfeld, and Robin Averbeck) want you to meet fellow alumni who share your interest in saving the planet! RSVP/see who’s attending via this Google spreadsheet link.
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Check out the Creaturecast blog created by the Dunn Lab in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology!
http://creaturecast.org/
creaturecast.org
If you are stuck to a rock it is tricky to get close enough to a partner to mate. One solution to this problem would be to release eggs or sperm into the open water, which is what many animals in this situation do. ...
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"A Sense of Wonder," a one-woman play about the life of Rachel Carson comes to Brown.
http://www.browndailyherald.com/playwrig
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“I’m chicken,” she said, speaking to a Salomon 101 audience Wednesday night about the thought of editing her long-running play, “A Sense of Wonder.”
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Ecology professor Jon Witman co-edits new book on global marine macroecology.
http://www.brown.edu/Research/ECI/public
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Up until recently, there was little recognition that changes in local groups of seaweeds, marine invertebrates and fish that we might see while walking a short distance at the beach or rocky coast - or ...
Brown Alumni Staying Green Miriam Goldstein '03, ScB Bio, is analyzing samples from the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch as part of her doctoral research...
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I DON'T KNOW what it says about our nation when you could ask people to name their favorite living marine biologist and the most likely answer is George Costanza. Here in Manchester, we can lay claim to Miriam Goldstein.
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Jacques Lord ’79 has posted info about potential jobs on a big upcoming remediation project in southern CA in the Jobs section of our green/sustainable LinkedIn group. Check it out! http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=23458
Jay Butera We launched www.OneMillionCalls.org six days ago and it has now mobilized 1,100 constituent messages to Congress in support of the Senate's clean energy/climate legislation. Students from 39 colleges have taken action on the site.
www.OneMillionCalls.org
Help send one million messages to Congress urging passage of clean energy and climate legislation.
Amy White Poret Not doing E work professionally (I 'm a freelance medical writer) but I have one hell of a compost pile out back! I find reading about what everyone is doing quite inspirational; thank you.
Jay Butera Jay Butera '79 and Kayleigh Butera '13 just launched One Million Calls for Clean Energy. Their Goal: to generate one million messages to Congress demanding passage of the clean energy and climate legislation now pending in the Senate. Motto: One million calls could change the world! www.OneMillionCalls.org
www.OneMillionCalls.org
Help send one million messages to Congress urging passage of clean energy and climate legislation.
