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Mizzou’s 2012 Dashboard Competition Kicks Off
Monday night marks the kickoff of this year’s Mizzou Dashboard Competition. To celebrate, Mizzou’s Residence Halls Association is hosting a s’mores roasting party in the courtyard of the Dogwood, Hawthorn, and Galena Residence Halls. There will be s’mores, some energy saving trivia games, and even hot cocoa, for those that bring their own mug or … Continue reading
Update: Bradford compost system fully functional
Numbers from last semester estimate that a total of 6,000 pounds of basic materials (food scraps and horse bedding and manure) were used to produce 4,000 pounds of compost at the University of Missouri’s Bradford Research and Extension Center. Beginning Nov. 18, 2011, Bradford began its first cycle in its new composting system. Using food … Continue reading
How to make your own biodiesel
“BioDiesel: The Un-grasped Fuel of The Future” By Hunter Maret Ahhh, Rudolph, If only you could have seen today. Rudolph Diesel was a German inventor and mechanical engineer who created the Diesel engine in and around 1893. Rudolph’s primary goal after living the inefficiencies of steam powered engines, was to create the most efficient … Continue reading
Environmental Summit this weekend!
Want to see how Missouri is working to protect the environment? Come to the Missouri Votes Conservation (MVC) Environmental Summit January 28th right here at Mizzou! Missouri Votes Conservation Education Fund is a non-partisan, common-ground organization that strives to unify the many diverse environmental and conservation interests in Missouri in order to strengthen the state’s … Continue reading
Review: the Belkin “Conserve Insight”
By Wilson McNeary Christmas morning, I opened my gifts, only to find that my family had given me a small device used to monitor energy consumption of electronic appliances: the Belkin “Conserve Insight”. To most my age, I assume this would be a rather strange gift to pull out of the box; one of those … Continue reading
“Cars are totally pointless:” envisioning better transit for Mizzou
This is an editorial comment by Ian Thomas, the executive director of the PedNet Coalition. It ran in the coalition’s newsletter and is republished here, with permission, because of its relevance to the Mizzou and Columbia community. Ames, Iowa is a city of 89,000 residents, which includes 30,000 students at Iowa State University – not … Continue reading
Two environmental journalism classes for Spring 2012
It’s time to register for classes, and in the journalism school, that means it’s time for environmental reporters to check in with Bill Allen, the science and agricultural journalism professor. Part two of professor Allen’s Readings in Science Journalism series (see “Four Great Books on the Environment”) is all about Food and Agriculture. Here’s what … Continue reading
Free Parking: Is it really free?
The average Walmart Superstore has between 4 acres of store under its roof and 16 – 20 acres of parking out in front of it. This means that 75 – 80 % of the land footprint is dedicated to parking. Parking also dominates the landscape, making up the largest land use in urban areas; in … Continue reading
Residence halls working to provide sustainable options in the laundry room
The Residence Hall Association (RHA) has recently begun to provide drying racks for the residence halls in order to provide more sustainable (and cheaper!) laundry options to students. Sustainability Coordinator for RHA, Jordan Glasgow, has been working hard to provide drying racks to all the residence halls and, so far, everything is going as planned. … Continue reading
Review: “Into Eternity,” a documentary about nuclear waste
Documentary director Michael Madsen worries about our generation’s effect on the future of humanity. “Into Eternity” addresses the audience in the future. The film follows the ongoing construction of the Onkalo Waste Repository on the island of Olkiluoto, Finland. Phase one began in 2004, and consists of the construction of a large access tunnel going … Continue reading
