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Rethinking Our Global Coastal Investment Portfolio, Erin Mccreless, Michael W. Beck

Journal of Ocean and Coastal Economics

Coastal gray infrastructure, including roads, bridges, and buildings, is critical for communities, and we invest significantly in it. We also invest in the restoration and maintenance of coastal green infrastructure such as wetlands and reefs, which provide many services and benefits to human communities. However, the relative scale of financial investments in different coastal sectors – that is, our global coastal investment portfolio – remains poorly understood. We identify some of the major sources of funding for coastal green and gray infrastructure globally, including international aid funds; US public and private funds for coastal conservation, restoration and management; and private …

Culture And Conservation: Beyond Anthropocentrism, Nathan Poirier

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

No abstract provided.

Developing A Sustainable Water Supply In The American West: The Case Of Rio Rancho, New Mexico, Hubert B. Stroud, Mary K. Kilmer

Suburban Sustainability

Suburban and urban communities in the American West are challenged by rapid population growth combined with limited natural resources. Supporting sustainable development is of great concern in this region and in similar regions throughout the world. This research examines the sustainability of the water supply within a rapidly growing suburban city in the American West. The city, Rio Rancho, New Mexico, began as an interstate land sales operation and rapidly became a “boom” town, in part because of its location near metropolitan Albuquerque.

Because of a very limited water supply and an increasing demand for water associated with population growth, …

The Effectiveness Of The Colby College Electricity Competition On Promoting Electricity Conservation To Students, Jeff Vaz

Journal of Environmental and Resource Economics at Colby

This paper examines the effectiveness of the Colby College electricity reduction competition in altering students’ behavior to conserve electricity. The Colby College electricity reduction competition is an information-based policy that Colby implemented to promote the conservation of electricity, which are a major contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the United States. The study analyzes if different residence halls reduce electricity consumption by different amounts during the competition period. Results indicate that only 4 of 22 residence halls reduced electricity usage during competition periods in a statistically significant manner. The study concludes that the electricity competition at Colby College is …

Forest Diversity And Disturbance: Changing Influences And The Future Of Virginia’S Forests, Christine J. Small, James L. Chamberlain

Virginia Journal of Science

The Virginia landscape supports a remarkable diversity of forests, from maritime dune woodlands, swamp forests, and pine savannas of the Atlantic Coastal Plain, to post-agricultural pine-hardwood forests of the Piedmont, to mixed oak, mesophytic, northern hardwood, and high elevation spruce-fir forests across three mountain provinces in western parts of the state. Virginia’s forests also have been profoundly shaped by disturbance. Chestnut blight, hemlock woolly adelgid, emerald ash borer, and other pests have caused declines or functional extirpation of foundation species. Invasive plants like multiflora rose, Oriental bittersweet, and Japanese stiltgrass threaten both disturbed and intact forests. Oaks and other fire-dependent …

L.A. River Project, Erin Payne

The STEAM Journal

A field note that reflected the artists' experience of the city and the making of art through an activity at the L.A. River.

The Effects Of Land Conservation On Productivity, Robert Mccormick, Carolyn Fuwa

Journal of Environmental and Resource Economics at Colby

In this research the relationship between productivity of land conservation is analyzed using panel data of the GDP and acres conserved of all 50 U.S. states from 1998-2005. Two main theories of the conservation productivity relationship exist. The first maintains that conservation impedes productivity because it does not allow land cultivation. Conversely, the second theory maintains that land conservation has a positive effect on GDP due to the recreation and tourism it creates. Through the use of fixed effects and random effects regressions, the amount of land conserved per state is not a significant predictor of state GDP The GDP …

Jefferson Currents: Spring Volume 16, Issue 1, 2015

Jefferson Currents: The Energy Conservation Newsletter

Jefferson Current: Spring Volume 16, Issue 1, 2015

Jefferson Currents: Autumn Volume 15, Issue 2, 2014

Jefferson Currents: The Energy Conservation Newsletter

Jefferson Current: Autumn Volume 15, Issue 2, 2014

Jefferson Currents: Spring Volume 15, Issue 1, 2014

Jefferson Currents: The Energy Conservation Newsletter

Jefferson Current: Spring Volume 15, Issue 1, 2014

The Natural, Jeff Clark

Colby Magazine

Just before Thanksgiving Day last November, Kent Wommack '77 got the classic good-news, bad-news, worse-news call. Wommack is head of The Nature Conservancy in Maine, and the caller was a timberland manager who had asked Wommack to back a client in acquiring prime acres of Maine forest on the upper St. John River, one of the most unspoiled waterways left in the United States. The good news was that the owner had agreed to sell the breathtaking chunk of land in the first place. The bad news was that the client was no longer interested in the deal. The worse …

Deriving The Snel-Descartes Law For A Single Photon, Randy Wayne

Turkish Journal of Physics

The laws of reflection and refraction are typically derived using a dispersion relation that assumes that the angular frequency stays the same across a vacuum--dielectric interface and that the angular wave number increases. At the single photon level, this means that the total energy of the photon is conserved but the linear momentum is not. Here I derive the laws of reflection and refraction for a single photon using a dispersion relation that is consistent with the conservation of both total energy and linear momentum. To ensure that both conservation laws are upheld, the optical path length must be considered …

Jefferson Currents: Autumn 2013

Jefferson Currents: The Energy Conservation Newsletter

Dr. Watts' Brilliant Savings: And now, for something completely different, ladies and gentlemen, with a roll of the drums and a blare of trumpets, please..

On the Home Front: Rudolph-approved!

Bright Ideas: A kilowatt saved is a penny earned

Jefferson Currents: Spring 2013

Jefferson Currents: The Energy Conservation Newsletter

Dr. Watts' Brilliant Savings: Here Comes the Bride

On the Home Front: Insulation or How I learned to stuff it

Bright Ideas: The heat's ON but no one's home!

Jefferson Currents: Summer/Fall 2007

Jefferson Currents: The Energy Conservation Newsletter

Dr. Watts' Brilliant Savings, steam power and chilled water on campus, 6 degrees of efficiency challenge, and other conservation news. 2 pages.

Jefferson Currents: Winter 2005/6

Jefferson Currents: The Energy Conservation Newsletter

Dr. Watts' Brilliant Savings, Jefferson signs agreements for a new central chilled water plant and steam purchase pricing, and other conservation news. 2 pages.

Jefferson Currents: Winter 2005

Jefferson Currents: The Energy Conservation Newsletter

Dr. Watts' Brilliant Savings, energy myths debunked, savings at work, and other conservation news. 2 pages.

Jefferson Currents: Winter 2003

Jefferson Currents: The Energy Conservation Newsletter

Dr. Watts' Brilliant Savings, campus heating costs soar, energy upgrades at TJUH buildings, and other conservation news. 2 pages.

Jefferson Currents: Summer 2005

Jefferson Currents: The Energy Conservation Newsletter

Dr. Watts' Brilliant Savings, electricity bills rising, information on buying air conditioners, and other conservation news. 2 pages.

Jefferson Currents: Summer 2004

Jefferson Currents: The Energy Conservation Newsletter

Dr. Watts' Brilliant Savings, energy costs slashed, energy myths debunked, and other conservation news. 2 pages.

Jefferson Currents: Summer 2003

Jefferson Currents: The Energy Conservation Newsletter

Dr. Watts' Brilliant Savings, Jefferson receives two energy awards, Jefferson's water meter costs cut, and other conservation news. 2 pages.

Jefferson Currents: Spring 2013

Jefferson Currents: The Energy Conservation Newsletter

Dr. Watts' Brilliant Savings, insulation for saving on heating and cooling cost, Earth Day news, and other conservation news. 2 pages.

Jefferson Currents: Spring 2011

Jefferson Currents: The Energy Conservation Newsletter

Dr. Watts' Brilliant Savings, healthy Jeff water Wednesday, investment in energy efficiency yields big savings on campus, and other conservation news. 2 pages.

Jefferson Currents: Spring 2006

Jefferson Currents: The Energy Conservation Newsletter

Dr. Watts' Brilliant Savings, electric rates going up, energy myths debunked, and other conservation news. 2 pages.

Jefferson Currents: Spring 2005

Jefferson Currents: The Energy Conservation Newsletter

Dr. Watts' Brilliant Savings, energy use on campus, energy myths debunked, and other conservation news. 2 pages.

Jefferson Currents: Spring 2004

Jefferson Currents: The Energy Conservation Newsletter

Dr. Watts' Brilliant Savings, free hot water, energy myths debunked, and other conservation news. 2 pages.

Jefferson Currents: Fall 2012

Jefferson Currents: The Energy Conservation Newsletter

Dr. Watts' Brilliant Savings, on the home front, EnergySense from PGW, and other conservation news. 2 pages.

Jefferson Currents: Fall 2011

Jefferson Currents: The Energy Conservation Newsletter

Dr. Watts' Brilliant Savings, six ways to cut winter energy use, load shedding initiative saves money, work completed on large energy projects, and more conservation news. 2 pages.

Jefferson Currents: Fall 2009

Jefferson Currents: The Energy Conservation Newsletter

Dr. Watts' Brilliant Savings, saving money and healing the environment, trash to cash, and other conservation news. 2 pages.

Jefferson Currents: Fall 2004

Jefferson Currents: The Energy Conservation Newsletter

Dr. Watts' Brilliant Savings, oil prices, energy myths debunked, and other conservation news. 2 pages.