Browsing Kalamazoo College Guilds: Sustainability SIPs by Issue Date
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Environmental Policy and its Degradation by Conflicting National Goals
(1979)The focus of this discussion will be the environmental movement -- its rise as a national issue, the legislation enacting its goals, the regulation of its polluters, and the degradation of its importance as a national ... -
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 ... -
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 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 ... -
Ecocentric Environmentalism and Pragmatic Strategy: The Means for an Effective Convention on Biological Diversity
(2001)Throughout these pages, I have argued that a reinvented Convention on Biological Diversity, based on ecocentric environmental theory, would curb today's frightening rates of biodiversity loss, and I have no doubt that it ... -
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 ... -
The Implications of Free Trade on the Fight to Preserve Oregon's Old Growth Legacy
(2001)Environmentalism crept into the general consciousness of Americans in 1962 with Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, a publication that marked the beginning of the modern environmental movement (Chase 1995). In Oregon, however, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The Effects of Decentralization on the Establishment and Management of Protected Areas
(2005)In 1872, Yellowstone became the first national park in the world and ushered in a new way of thinking about conservation. In order to keep Yellowstone an area of natural beauty, the United States government established it ... -
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, ... -
Art Equals Food: The Environmental Impact of Theatre and Practices to Make it Sustainable
(2008)This thesis addresses common procedure in sustainable theatre productions, where materials come from and how are they disposed, whether materials are hazardous, and how much waste goes into making theatre. -
Environmentally Friendly Practices at Kalamazoo College
(2008)With the rising importance of sustainability due to an increasing scientific understanding of the impact of humanity on the planet, Kalamazoo College has a very large task at hand to successfully become more environmentally ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The “Green” K-Plan: Toward a Carbon Neutral Campus
(2008-01-01)As a signatory to the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment, Kalamazoo College must undertake a carbon emissions inventory and adopt a carbon neutrality plan within the coming year. It is my hope ... -
Biofuels: Renewable Energy?
(2008-05-23)In an effort to become more environmentally conscious, there has been a worldwide effort to use products that are more carbon neutral. Two different renewable energy biofuels that have attracted recent attention are corn ... -
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 ... -
Enzymatic Digestion of Algal Carbohydrates for Biofuel Applications
(Kalamazoo College, 2009)As the globe is hurtled into the era of global warming, humanity is becoming more conscious of its dependency on petroleum and its unsustainable depleting supply. The once wonderful fuel of petroleum is the main cause for ... -
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 ...