Sustainability in the News
- While campus is unusually quiet, we remain grateful for the familiar trails of North Woods, blossoming trees in our favorite corners of campus, Adirondack Chairs with a view and mischievous Skidmore squirrels.
- The student-led event shares sustainable local food with the Skidmore community and supports the community at large.
- Polling just a tiny fraction of the Skidmore community reveals a wide range of reasons to be thankful this year:
- The annual Harvest Dinner this fall drew a record number of students for a feast of local and campus-grown sustainable fare.
- Courses on farm and food politics, literature and nature, and "watershed science for a crowded planet" are just a few of Skidmore's academic offerings that address sustainability issues.
- A Hillel-sponsored talk by a Palestinian Muslim is among the guest lectures on campus soon.
- Choreographer Jody Sperling has danced on the shrinking Arctic ice, and she's bringing her expressive movement to Skidmore this week, Oct. 5 and 6.
- Skidmore's Give and Go again collected truckloads of leftover dorm-room and apartment goods for donation to Saratoga's racetrack workers and others.
- With its second electric vehicle charger, Skidmore is building a green-transportation hub at center campus.
- Given today's world politics, can the private sector do the job of promoting environmental and economic sustainability? Corporate-sustainability expert Laura Gitman offers answers this Thursday, Feb. 9, at 7 p.m. in Davis Auditorium.
- The 2017 Princeton Review gives Skidmore a score of 94 out of 100 for its sustainability, and New York State calls it a leader among green campuses.
- Skidmore celebrates sustainability during a range of Earth Week activities.
- A series of short videos about Skidmore's North Woods offers special insight into this campus treasure.
- We import farmed salmon and export wild salmon. From cod and tuna to shrimp and oysters, the seafood sourcing crisis will be discussed in a Dec. 10 talk by a prominent author.
- Dominic Frongillo, a climate change advocate who rallied efforts against fracking, will help launch Skidmore's energy awareness campaign.
- Skidmore's new concert-stage lighting can shine green, but even greener is its much-reduced environmental impact.
- Floods, droughts, and pollution are urgent concerns in many developing nations. A World Bank environmental expert has some new approaches to share in the fall ES keynote talk.
- North Woods stewards wear many hats--scientist, historian, hiker, organizer--to foster love and respect for the campus forest.
- Skidmore's student-run organic garden has always supplied produce to the campus dining hall. Now it's mushrooming--literally.
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