In an article entitled “The Republicans” in this past week’s Economist, former GOP nominee hopeful, Michelle Bachmann, is quoted as saying if she were elected she would have the “doors locked and lights turned off” at the Environmental Protection Agency.  – Before going further, it is important for the reader to know that Bureaucracy runs through my veins.  [...]

Kill-a-Watt, a new student program to encourage energy reduction in the residents hall does just that. Starting just this past Wednesday (Oct. 19th) Kill-a-Watt is a month long energy reduction competition between 9 residence halls here on campus.

At the culmination of a multi-year effort to assess the opportunities for sustainable development on this campus, Mary Sue Coleman, in a speech last Tuesday, declared the goals of the university to improve its relationship with our environment.  While admirable for its clear and strong commitments her speech lacked the vision I had hoped for. The University’s goals [...]

Sometime long ago, it was my intention to start off my blog writing for this semester by making our readers aware of a community on that truly lives on the edge of acceptable human conditions but lies only 45 minutes away from campus. I forgot about it at first, but now I will take a little time to tell you about Delray.

In Consider’s most recent release, the issue of how we should address the environmental degradation caused by our consumptive society was raised. I played a large role in putting the issue together, but in hindsight, I believe it may slightly have missed the mark. Before we can take on that discussion, a fundamental question needs to be answered first: Why should we protect the environment?

In a recent post, GOOD magazine’s website assesses the energy savings of introducing smart-grid technology to our energy grid, but the post and the study it cites fail to address the larger issues of America’s ailing energy infrastructure.  According to the American Society of Civil Engineers 2009 Energy Infrastructure report card, the U.S. received a [...]