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Becoming Informed About Fracking
Last Thursday I ventured into Gross Hall for the first time and stepped into The Energy Hub. A few e-mail announcements had persuaded me to come to the monthly Energy Mix, an informal gathering of Duke...
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Deer City
Flip open to TIME Magazine’s December 9th feature article, and you’ll find our own Durham, NC right in the opening sentence. This article isn’t about about food trucks, though. It’s about the U.S.’s...
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Redesigning instead of Reducing
After reading Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the way we make things four years ago, my thoughts about environmentalism were uprooted and new thoughts began to sprout. Just this month, I read The Upcycle:...
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Fueling the Sochi Olympics
Powering a 17-day event that draws thousands of people from around the world is no trivial task, which is why organizers have been planning how to fuel the 2014 Winter Olympics since the Russian city...
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Green Foreigners
Publicized opinions and studies on the impacts of genetically modified foods are as abundant as the white flowering trees saturating Duke’s campus. The amount of publications on the impacts of...
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It All Comes Out in the Wash?
A year ago, Nic School blogger Sara Sunu wrote about her quest to find “eco-friendly” hygiene and cleaning products. Reinvigorated by her post, this summer I vowed to try again with replacing one of my...
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Should you live in a Tiny House?
Chances are if you’re reading a Nicholas School blog post, you’re interested in decreasing your carbon footprint. As a means of doing so, maybe you’ve thought about downsizing your physical footprint,...
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Scouts Clean Up The Beach, But It’s Just Scratching The Surface
They could’ve complained that it wasn’t their trash, so why did they have to clean it up? But they didn’t. They could’ve insisted on playing in the sand instead of picking up one cigarette butt after...
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Running Beneath the Longleaf Pines
While wandering through the Patsy Pond nature trails, you are immersed in ecology lessons. The longleaf pines tower 100 feet above you, stalwart survivors of forest fires through the ages. You observe...
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