By: Olivia Dicks Colorado College students struggle with the grave impacts of climate change affecting many aspects of their lives. Many students are “scared for our kids and our grandkids,” as climate impact increases, said Avery Bakewell, a first-year CC student from Maine. Eco-grief is the term researchers are using to describe a feeling of…
By Emily Stamper It is common at Colorado College to see students reducing their carbon footprint in small and numerous ways. In Ben Khaghani and Ethan Hall’s eight-person, three story apartment on East campus, you will find a compost bin under the table that holds their homegrown sprouts, more skateboards than people and that arc…
By Emily Stamper Five men and a woman sat inside the 1925 boiler room at the Colorado Springs’ Coal-Fired Power Plant, seemingly excited to share their experience. Each held a plastic cup of filtered water. One of them, plant manager Ian Gavin, got his start in nuclear power school. He then moved to the coal…
