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Browsing Kalamazoo College Guilds: Sustainability SIPs by Title
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Motivation for Pro-Environmental Behavior
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2008)Over the past several decades, there have been many fluctuations in society's environmental behavior as a whole. Pro-environmental behavior increases in times of crisis, but when crises are averted, habits tend to not stay ... -
Natural Gas: An Energy Source for the Future? Examining The Role for Natural Gas in the Future of United States Energy Mix
(2009)Energy policy should meet these two fundamental criteria: it should decrease the nation's impact on the climate and it should increase the nation's energy security. It is doubtful that any single energy policy could, with ... -
Production of Lingin-based Reformulated Gasoline Components
(1998)The National Renewable Energy Laboratory in conjunction with the Shabtai Group at University of Utah and Sandia National Laboratories, is developing a process for the conversion of lignin biomass to higher valued chemicals ... -
Rampart Rhetoric: The Role of Frontier Mythology in the Development of Alaska’s Natural Resources and Identity
(2010)After a summer of deep exploration, the story that I felt compelled to tell was the story of an attempt in the early 1960s to build a hydroelectric dam on the Yukon River at a place called Rampart Canyon. Though few people ... -
A Report on Water Quality Testing and Environmental Education
(1999)Since the Clean Water Act of 1972 was passed, water quality in the United States has improved dramatically. Unfortunately, water degradation is still a problem that attacks lakes and rivers. Ford Lake in Ypsilanti is an ... -
The Role of Green Accounting In the Creation of Indicators of Sustainable Economic Growth
(2009)Gross domestic product (GDP) is the most widely utilized measure of economic growth worldwide. The GDP is often mistakenly used as a measure of social welfare, even though it was never meant to be used as one. The GDP is ... -
Social Psychological Effects of Wilderness Therapy Programs: A Proposed Study of the LandSea Program at Kalamazoo College
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2003)This study examines the psychological effects of the LandSea wilderness program in terms of self-esteem, social anxiety, social avoidance, and locus of control. 50 first-year college students comprised the experimental ... -
A Study of Energy Use at Kalamazoo College
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2007-06-04)The evolving focus of Kalamazoo College on energy conservation and efficiency brought about the need for a project to study how the campus currently uses energy. This process, often taking the form of an energy audit, ... -
Survey of Phragmites australis in Water Sources in Michigan’s Northern Lower Peninsula
(Kalamazoo College, 2010)Understanding the distribution patterns of an invasive species is a first critical step toward controlling its spread into other ecosystems. Beginning in June of 2009, grassroots environmental protection organizations ... -
Theoretical and Experimental Psychological Support for the No Child Left Inside Act
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2008)This study extends and synthesizes previous theory and research pertaining to environmental education. The aim of this synthesis is to provide greater evidence of the recent No Child Left Inside Act (NCLI), which is a ... -
Trading On Our Future: How The World Trade Organization is Destroying The World Environment
(2001)Globalization has become a very common topic for debate after the 1990's. Discussions over who it benefits and who it hurts, and to what magnitude have become commonplace throughout the world. And like any other widespread ... -
The Waters of Contention: Hydropolitics in the Middle East
(2000)Speaking directly to the problem of cooperation and management of shared water resources in the region, the late King Hussein stated as late as 1993 that the next war in the Middle East would focus on the scarce water ... -
We're Getting Warmer: Calling for a New Look at Global Warming Policy in the United States
(2001)Since the early 1980's, society has been experiencing increasingly strange weather patterns around the globe. Flooding in Bangladesh, fires in Canadian forests, ice and snowstorms in Texas these are all recent weather ...
