Posts tagged with “International News” (All posts)
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Black Lives Matter Sustainability Letter
5 June 2020A letter to the Carleton Community in regards to happenings surrounding the murder of George Floyd.
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A Car-Less Day in a Big City
24 September 2015Imagine a car-free day in a big city. That is what Paris is planning for September 27, 2015. Read the article to learn a little bit more about the event.
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Take Back the Tap!
11 April 2011This week our guest blogger is Ellen Drews, a sophomore at Carleton and campus organizer for the national “Take Back the Tap” campaign:
Bottled water is one of the least-regulated industries…
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No Kidding! Sustainability in China!
18 October 2010“Now I know the only one who cares about the environment out of 1.3 billion people who don’t,” said an American friend of mine after he was approached by a…
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Field Notes from the Tiger-less Tiger Reserve
28 August 2009Orion writes about tigers, or the lack of tigers, in a reserve in Myanmar.
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Emissions Standards: Exporting Pollution
3 August 2009Another post from Orion, this time about exporting old, inefficient technologies to foreign countries. Myanmar gets Japan’s leftovers, but what is the US doing to stop its own unwanted items from entering countries with lower standards as well?
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Mandalay cracks down on plastic bags
23 July 2009Orion Martin ’11 writes again, and this time discusses plastic-related policy in Burma, Australia, and Bangladesh. If recycling alone isn’t a long-term solution to over-consumption of plastic, what is being done to encourage people to cut back?
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