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Wooster Magazine: The President's Annual Report 2022-23, Caitlin Paynich Stanowick Oct 2023

Wooster Magazine: The President's Annual Report 2022-23, Caitlin Paynich Stanowick

Wooster Magazine: 2011-Present

The President’s Annual Report 2022-23 fall edition of Wooster magazine highlights the many ways The College of Wooster Community has supported the College mission in the past year and offers a look ahead at what’s next at Wooster. The annual financial report details College operating revenues and expenses and the year’s giving and fundraising activity. Donors who found ways to support programs and priorities at Wooster in the past year that enhance student experiences and the College community are featured, including gifts supporting scholarships and student success, sustainability, and library services. The issue also highlights the 30th Anniversary of the …


Future-Proofing Companies With Climate Strategies, Sim Kee Boon Institute, Smu Office Of Research Jul 2023

Future-Proofing Companies With Climate Strategies, Sim Kee Boon Institute, Smu Office Of Research

Research@SMU Infographics

Scientists have shown that humans significantly contributed to global warming through greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the last two centuries. The 2022 United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference (COP27) and 2022 UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15) focused on setting goals and collective action to address and reverse these negative consequences. Climate and sustainability experts discussed key insights from COP27 and COP15 at a recent panel discussion organized by the Sim Kee Boon Institute (SKBI) at SMU.


Why Agriculture Productivity Falls: The Political Economy Of Agrarian Transition In Developing Countries, Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir Jun 2023

Why Agriculture Productivity Falls: The Political Economy Of Agrarian Transition In Developing Countries, Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir

Purdue University Press Books

Why Agriculture Productivity Falls: The Political Economy of Agrarian Transition in Developing Countries offers a new explanation for the decline in agricultural productivity in developing countries. Transcending the conventional approaches to understanding productivity using agricultural inputs and factors of production, this work brings in the role of formal and informal institutions that govern transactions, property rights, and accumulation. This more robust methodology leads to a comprehensive, well-balanced lens to perceive agrarian transition in developing countries. It argues that the existing process of accumulation has resulted in nonsustainable agriculture because of market failures—the result of asymmetries of power, diseconomies of scale, …


Sust 489 Capstone: Library Of Things Project, Jadyn Ford, Lewis Hall, Dan Hanson, Matthew Helm, Hanah Long, Devin Mcginley, Breana Spinler, Kacy Tubbs May 2023

Sust 489 Capstone: Library Of Things Project, Jadyn Ford, Lewis Hall, Dan Hanson, Matthew Helm, Hanah Long, Devin Mcginley, Breana Spinler, Kacy Tubbs

Sustainability & Environment Projects

Each year, the Sustainability 489 Capstone class works with a community partner whose needs align with the initiatives of the Department of Sustainability. This year, the SUST 489 class received a recommendation from Dr. Joe Kantenbacher to work with the Vermilion Public Library. Our class worked with Daniel Burniston, Vermillion Public Library Director, to best identify the needs of the Vermillion community. The class, our library partners, and our professor Dr. Meghann Jarchow worked together to decide upon a Library of Things project, where we will assist the library in providing items for library patrons to check out.


Environment And Sustainability: March 2023, Environment And Sustainability, Office Of The President Mar 2023

Environment And Sustainability: March 2023, Environment And Sustainability, Office Of The President

Environment and Sustainability

• Green tips campaign

• Green Events Guide

• Supplier workshop for climate action

• New solar panels in Karachi and Kampala

• Organic vegetables supplied to NFSD, Stadium Road

• And much more…


The Grizzly, February 9, 2023, Layla Halterman, Chase Portaro, Marie Sykes, Jagger Clapsadle, Erin Corcoran, Kate I. Foley, Isabel Wesman, Ava Compagnoni Feb 2023

The Grizzly, February 9, 2023, Layla Halterman, Chase Portaro, Marie Sykes, Jagger Clapsadle, Erin Corcoran, Kate I. Foley, Isabel Wesman, Ava Compagnoni

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

The Wismer Shuffle • Talking Trash to Address Ursinus' Waste Issue • February Editor's Letter • Ursinus Student Lives It Up, Down Under • Job, Internship and Networking Fair February 15! • Opinions: Pets Banned From Campus Buildings? A-Paw-lling! • "Deal"-ing out Ws • Swim, Swam, Swum in Florida


Iere Annual Report 2023, Erin Largo-Wight, James Taylor, Kelly Rhoden, Ruby Cox, Nicole Lowe Jan 2023

Iere Annual Report 2023, Erin Largo-Wight, James Taylor, Kelly Rhoden, Ruby Cox, Nicole Lowe

Annual Reports

2023 Annual Report of the Institute for Environmental Research and Education


Iwaste: Analyzing Apple's Sustainable Technology Production, Ashley L. Lefebvre Jan 2023

Iwaste: Analyzing Apple's Sustainable Technology Production, Ashley L. Lefebvre

GLO 100 Introduction to Global Studies: Policy Analysis Papers

Electronic waste is a global issue that has not received the attention it deserves; there is an enormous amount of e-waste from the rapid industrialization of many countries throughout the world. Apple is the largest technology company in the world, with the highest revenue and the largest number of products manufactured. Therefore, it is important to see what they are doing to mitigate their efforts to the electronic waste crisis that is expected to increase in the next seven years. Three policy options are examined in this paper to evaluate and determine how well Apple is following the goals within …