ERIE- Weld County resident Amanda Harper is fighting for her home — increasingly under assault by an expanding fossil fuel industry — and is counting on Colorado voters. On a recent afternoon, she stood tall on a road in front of her yellow brick house, surrounded by acres of misty farmland pockmarked by oil and…
DENVER – A freezer that operates at -11° Farenheit is an extreme setting for a workspace. For Richard Nunn, this freezer is his office. However, he doesn’t mind because he believes he has one of the most important jobs in the world. Nunn organizes and slices ice cores stored at the National Science Foundation Ice…
DENVER – Call him the Ice Librarian. He wears a brown beanie over a long ponytail. He has a curly goatee and glasses. Richard Nunn. His library is not books. He is the keeper of the nation’s ice cores, up to 420,000 years old, pulled from deep under Greenland, Alaska, and Antarctica. The library is…
COLORADO SPRINGS–Colorado College students noticed a change in their morning routine at the start of the school year. Bon Appetit, CC’s contracted caterers, announced that they will no longer be serving straws at their cafés. Bon Appetit stated that this reform will be in keeping with their promise of “Food service for a sustainable future”. …
COLORADO SPRINGS– Feeling stressed out? It may be the pollution. Pollution can take many forms— air and water pollution are familiar and known to cause adverse effects on health, but what about noise? Noise pollution, from airplanes, highways, and trains, can also negatively impact health. Colorado College lays next to a major highway, railway,…
Becoming straw-free is suddenly the newest, trendiest, environmentally conscious action to take. The impetus of the movement, according to various straw-free campaign organizations like the Plastic Pollution Coalition, is thought to come from a 2015 video of scientists pulling a straw from the bleeding nose of a turtle. In the past year, the video has…
“Tofu stir fry, vegan” reads the sign in front of a dish of steaming tofu, vegetables, and rice on one chilly Tuesday night. Every meal without fail, Rastall’s, the main dining hall on Colorado College’s campus, provides a meat-free option to its many vegetarian students. CC is known for having a socially aware student…
COLORADO SPRINGS–When push comes to shove, Colorado College students take the path of least resistance. Consider the case of “The Preserve,” a popular campus eatery typically packed around dinner. Students devour much of their loaded plates in a rush. But they leave plenty, and then they dump it, failing to sort it properly for recycling…
COLORADO COLLEGE–Colorado College just opened a newly transformed Tutt Library, touted by college officials as the greenest academic library in the country. Now, CC has plans to build a new ice rink that will also be considered environmentally friendly. These actions follow a gigantic push by Colorado College’s Office of Sustainability in recent years to…
COLORADO SPRINGS–According to the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS) report based on information from Colorado College in 2017, only 17.4% of expenditures on third-party products are verified under recognized food & sustainability standards. 498 out of the 604, or 82.62% of products that Colorado College’s catering company, Bon Appetit, sources from third parties…
