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Kalamazoo College Guilds: Sustainability SIPs: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Costs, Benefits and Sustainability of the Salween Dams along the Thai-Burma Border
(2010)The 2800 km Salween River is the last major river in Southeast Asia that remains free flowing. Unfortunately, Thailand and Burma have made plans to build a series of five large dams along the 118 km portion of the river ... -
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 ... -
Commuter Behavior at Kalamazoo College: Manifesting Ontological Security in Environmental (In)Action
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2010)In June 2007, Kalamazoo College became the second college in Michigan to sign the American College and University Presidents‟ Climate Commitment, a promise to address local and institutional influences on climate change. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 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, ... -
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 ... -
Energy Archipelago: A Case Study of Lithuania's Efforts to Gain Energy Security
(2009)This monograph was always conceptualized as a case study of Lithuania and its role within the European arena of politics, but the question of how to refine such a broad subject and still prove its relevance outside the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
