Throughout the new Library Learning Commons, you\’ll see numerous recycling stations… photo by Tracy Holtman …with slots for trash/garbage, recyclable bottles & cans, and recyclable paper: photo by Tracy Holtman, modified by Amanda Pape In the areas with printers, there are new cabinets with slots cut in the top for recycling paper: photo by AmandaContinue reading “Environmentally Conscious in the Library Learning Commons”
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Earth Day – April 22nd!
Do you care about the environment? Do you actively try to save the planet? The Environmental Protection Agency offers many ways you can commit to protect the environment this Earth Day: Pick five activities to save the environment. Participate in the Environment in a Day photo project or Six Words for the Planet contest. FindContinue reading “Earth Day – April 22nd!”
Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Easy Ways to Conserve H2O
With the current drought conditions in Texas and most other southern states, conserving water has become an urgent need, and it\’s a need that each of us can take steps to address.For starters, check out the eBay Green Team\’s 10 easy water-saving tips that can “significantly cut back on the 80 gallons of H2O thatContinue reading “Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Easy Ways to Conserve H2O”
Top Ten Reasons to Go Green
With Earth day just around the corner, and spring season upon us many start to think of ways to go green. There are many reasons for going green conserving resources, clean air, and clean water to name just a few. Click on the link to visit livestrong.com and see what their 10 reasons are forContinue reading “Top Ten Reasons to Go Green”
Top Ten Tuesday: "To Go Green, or Not to Go Green" Week
Ten things you can do during Tarleton\’s \”To Go Green, or Not to Go Green\” Week, sponsored by the Communication Studies Department, April 26-30, 2010: 1. Check out the website: http://tinyurl.com/TARLETONGREENWEEK 2-5. View the four entries for this year\’s speech competition – http://tinyurl.com/GOGREENVIDEOS 6. View the 27 PostSecret cards on the TarletonGreenWeek webpage OR inContinue reading “Top Ten Tuesday: "To Go Green, or Not to Go Green" Week”
Learn More, Get Involved, Take Action — Useful Top Tens
It\’s Top Ten Tuesday, plus April is Keep America Beautiful month, Thursday is Earth Day, and April 30th is Arbor Day. What a great time to check out ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle, as well as embrace going green. 10 Top Tens: Ideas, Tips, Resources, and News Emerging Environmental Technologies – from LiveScience EndangeredContinue reading “Learn More, Get Involved, Take Action — Useful Top Tens”
Thinking and Living Green!
Earth Day is April 22 & Arbor Day is April 24! What a great time to consider what we can all do to \”live a little greener,\” which is something many of us long to do. However, it\’s often hard to find out how to go about doing that. To meet this information need, DiscoveryContinue reading “Thinking and Living Green!”
The Quest for Sustainable Balance
\”One can only call that youth healthful which refuses to be reconciled to old ways and which, foolishly or shrewdly, combats the old. This is nature’s charge and all progress hinges upon it.\” The truth in Anton Chekhov\’s words is played out daily by young people world-wide as they take action individually, in groups, andContinue reading “The Quest for Sustainable Balance”
Living Green
Continuing the Earth Day theme, here are some books that will help you understand WHY it is so important to change our ways. Kermit the Frog has told us that it\’s not easy being green. These books inform us that it will be much worse if we choose NOT to be \’green\’. Porritt. Capitalism asContinue reading “Living Green”
Paper or Plastic?
Battle of the Bags offers an interesting, interactive exploration of the impact bagging choices have on the environment. The slides and video/audio clips give information about the environmental impact (production, recycling, and disposal) of bagging choices, state laws, and the impact of consumers\’ choices. Paper or plastic? The answer is more complex than it sounds.Continue reading “Paper or Plastic?”
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