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EVENT: Sustainable Seafood: From Water to Waiter
November 18, 2009
Join The Duke Center on Global Change for a discussion of sustainable seafood with a featured speaker and a panel moderated by Rob Jackson, Director of the Center on Global Change. To be followed by a reception with sustainable seafood sourced from CleanFish and Walking Fish and catered by Sage and Swift.
read more...
Environmental Alliance Campaign Coordinator Applications
November 13, 2009
The Environmental Alliance is looking for undergraduates interested in leading or working on campaigns during the 2010 spring semester. If you have an interest in environmental issues, please consider either helping out or possibly applying to coordinate a campaign. Right now, Environmental Alliance is looking for coordinators for the Real Food, Climate Change Legislation, Global Health Week, and Recycling campaigns.
read more...
Farm Stand Comes to Campus
November 11, 2009
The Great Hall will feature a “Farm Stand,” a new farmers market-style booth that will sell local and seasonal organic fruits and vegetables. Produce will be delivered multiple times a week from farmers within 150 miles of campus, including Duke’s own Community and Honey Patch gardens, which are cared for by Duke students and employees.
read more...
EVENT: Sisters on the Planet - Women Disproportionately Impacted by Climate Change
November 10, 2009
Environmental Alliance is teaming up with WISER and Amnesty International to show the documentary Sisters on the Planet. This Oxfam America movie tells the stories of four empowered women as they confront the difficulties of a changing climate in their communities. As climate change gets worse, food supplies will continue to tighten and natural disasters will occur with much more frequency. Women and the poor, because they have the least resources, will be the most affected.
read more...
A Fertile Idea: Urban Farming
November 10, 2009
Urban farms can provide locally produced, healthy food, cut down on transportation costs and carbon emissions and build a fruit and vegetable oasis in communities where grocery stores with fresh produce often are not available. Furthermore, employment at these farms can provide valuable skills and a sense of pride for traditionally disenfranchised members of our communities, such as recently released convicts.
read more...
Nicholas School Student Organizes Turtle Relocation in Duke Gardens
November 10, 2009
A plan to turn a small pond in the Duke Gardens into a sedimentation pond this winter could have spelled disaster for the turtles who called it home. But thanks to a group of nine Nicholas School students, 11 turtles have been rescued and safely relocated to another pond in the gardens.
read more...
Duke Plants 100 Trees: Video
November 10, 2009
Watch the tree planting video! On October 14, Duke demonstrated its commitment to sustainability and carbon neutrality by planting 100 trees on East Campus. Over 50 students, faculty, and staff members came out (despite the rain) and worked together to help plant the trees.
read more...
New Era for Steam at Duke
November 10, 2009
Duke's East Campus steam plant is scheduled to reopen in January after a $25 million renovation that marks another era at Duke: natural gas – not coal – will fuel the new boilers. The system will provide 35 percent more steam to heat academic and medical buildings, sterilize surgical equipment and maintain proper humidity for art and lab research.
read more...
EVENT: The Greening of Southie
November 10, 2009
See a screening of "The Greening of Southie". In the traditionally Irish-American working-class neighborhood of South Boston, MA, a new kind of building has taken shape. From wheatboard cabinetry to recycled steel, bamboo flooring to dual-flush toilets, the Macallen building is something different: a leader in the emerging field of environmentally friendly design. But Boston's steel-toed union workers aren't sure they like it. And when things on the building start to go wrong, the young developer has to keep the project from unraveling.
read more...
Duke Trustees Approve Creation of Ph.D. Program in Environmental Policy
November 10, 2009
The Duke University Board of Trustees’ Executive Committee on Friday gave final approval to the creation of a Ph.D. program in environmental policy, which builds on the university’s existing strengths in environmental science research and education, and public policy studies. The program, which had been endorsed by faculty review committees, “will educate the people who will be shaping the next generation of environmental policy,” said professor Randall Kramer of Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment.
read more...
Harvesting Energy from Natural Motion
November 10, 2009
By taking advantage of the vagaries of the natural world, Duke University engineers have developed a novel approach that they believe can more efficiently harvest electricity from the motions of everyday life. Energy harvesting is the process of converting one form of energy, such as motion, into another form of energy, in this case electricity. Strategies range from the development of massive wind farms to produce large amounts of electricity to using the vibrations of walking to power small electronic devices.
read more...
Researchers to Study Effects of “Dead Zone” on Gulf Shrimp Fishery
November 10, 2009
Researchers from Duke University, Florida State University and the National Marine Fisheries Service have received a $702,700 four-year grant from the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration (NOAA) to study the effects of the increasingly severe seasonal “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico on the region’s shrimp fishery.
read more...
The Lower D’s to be Produced as a “Carbon-Neutral” Play at Duke
November 10, 2009
The Duke University Department of Theater Studies will present The Lower D’s, based on the Russian play The Lower Depths by Maxim Gorky, Nov. 12-21, 2009. Jay O’Berski of the Duke Theater Studies faculty will direct the play. O’Berksi decided to set The Lower D’s not in Russia but in Lagos, Nigeria—and to do so with a minimal budget. The play is also being designed to be a carbon-neutral production, with no new materials purchased for the play and all energy use related to the play off-set by sponsors.
read more...
November 18, 2009
Join The Duke Center on Global Change for a discussion of sustainable seafood with a featured speaker and a panel moderated by Rob Jackson, Director of the Center on Global Change. To be followed by a reception with sustainable seafood sourced from CleanFish and Walking Fish and catered by Sage and Swift.
read more...
Environmental Alliance Campaign Coordinator Applications
November 13, 2009
The Environmental Alliance is looking for undergraduates interested in leading or working on campaigns during the 2010 spring semester. If you have an interest in environmental issues, please consider either helping out or possibly applying to coordinate a campaign. Right now, Environmental Alliance is looking for coordinators for the Real Food, Climate Change Legislation, Global Health Week, and Recycling campaigns.
read more...
Farm Stand Comes to Campus
November 11, 2009
The Great Hall will feature a “Farm Stand,” a new farmers market-style booth that will sell local and seasonal organic fruits and vegetables. Produce will be delivered multiple times a week from farmers within 150 miles of campus, including Duke’s own Community and Honey Patch gardens, which are cared for by Duke students and employees.
read more...
EVENT: Sisters on the Planet - Women Disproportionately Impacted by Climate Change
November 10, 2009
Environmental Alliance is teaming up with WISER and Amnesty International to show the documentary Sisters on the Planet. This Oxfam America movie tells the stories of four empowered women as they confront the difficulties of a changing climate in their communities. As climate change gets worse, food supplies will continue to tighten and natural disasters will occur with much more frequency. Women and the poor, because they have the least resources, will be the most affected.
read more...
A Fertile Idea: Urban Farming
November 10, 2009
Urban farms can provide locally produced, healthy food, cut down on transportation costs and carbon emissions and build a fruit and vegetable oasis in communities where grocery stores with fresh produce often are not available. Furthermore, employment at these farms can provide valuable skills and a sense of pride for traditionally disenfranchised members of our communities, such as recently released convicts.
read more...
Nicholas School Student Organizes Turtle Relocation in Duke Gardens
November 10, 2009
A plan to turn a small pond in the Duke Gardens into a sedimentation pond this winter could have spelled disaster for the turtles who called it home. But thanks to a group of nine Nicholas School students, 11 turtles have been rescued and safely relocated to another pond in the gardens.
read more...
Duke Plants 100 Trees: Video
November 10, 2009
Watch the tree planting video! On October 14, Duke demonstrated its commitment to sustainability and carbon neutrality by planting 100 trees on East Campus. Over 50 students, faculty, and staff members came out (despite the rain) and worked together to help plant the trees.
read more...
New Era for Steam at Duke
November 10, 2009
Duke's East Campus steam plant is scheduled to reopen in January after a $25 million renovation that marks another era at Duke: natural gas – not coal – will fuel the new boilers. The system will provide 35 percent more steam to heat academic and medical buildings, sterilize surgical equipment and maintain proper humidity for art and lab research.
read more...
EVENT: The Greening of Southie
November 10, 2009
See a screening of "The Greening of Southie". In the traditionally Irish-American working-class neighborhood of South Boston, MA, a new kind of building has taken shape. From wheatboard cabinetry to recycled steel, bamboo flooring to dual-flush toilets, the Macallen building is something different: a leader in the emerging field of environmentally friendly design. But Boston's steel-toed union workers aren't sure they like it. And when things on the building start to go wrong, the young developer has to keep the project from unraveling.
read more...
Duke Trustees Approve Creation of Ph.D. Program in Environmental Policy
November 10, 2009
The Duke University Board of Trustees’ Executive Committee on Friday gave final approval to the creation of a Ph.D. program in environmental policy, which builds on the university’s existing strengths in environmental science research and education, and public policy studies. The program, which had been endorsed by faculty review committees, “will educate the people who will be shaping the next generation of environmental policy,” said professor Randall Kramer of Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment.
read more...
Harvesting Energy from Natural Motion
November 10, 2009
By taking advantage of the vagaries of the natural world, Duke University engineers have developed a novel approach that they believe can more efficiently harvest electricity from the motions of everyday life. Energy harvesting is the process of converting one form of energy, such as motion, into another form of energy, in this case electricity. Strategies range from the development of massive wind farms to produce large amounts of electricity to using the vibrations of walking to power small electronic devices.
read more...
Researchers to Study Effects of “Dead Zone” on Gulf Shrimp Fishery
November 10, 2009
Researchers from Duke University, Florida State University and the National Marine Fisheries Service have received a $702,700 four-year grant from the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration (NOAA) to study the effects of the increasingly severe seasonal “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico on the region’s shrimp fishery.
read more...
The Lower D’s to be Produced as a “Carbon-Neutral” Play at Duke
November 10, 2009
The Duke University Department of Theater Studies will present The Lower D’s, based on the Russian play The Lower Depths by Maxim Gorky, Nov. 12-21, 2009. Jay O’Berski of the Duke Theater Studies faculty will direct the play. O’Berksi decided to set The Lower D’s not in Russia but in Lagos, Nigeria—and to do so with a minimal budget. The play is also being designed to be a carbon-neutral production, with no new materials purchased for the play and all energy use related to the play off-set by sponsors.
read more...