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Green Jobs For California's Communities: Laney College Environmental Control Technology Program, Nick Kyriakopedi

Sustainability Conference

We will discuss how to create more jobs and move people from low income to middle class jobs through training in sustainability. CSU Chico will be presenting on employment and training opportunities for tradesmen and contractors in the solar installation sector. There will also be a presentation from Laney College on their Environmental Technology Program, which prepares building technicians with the necessary skills to succeed in this rapidly growing field. The Ella Baker Center will connect us back to the national movement.

Earth-Friendly Cuisine: Greening Your Dining Facility, Bonnie Crouse

Sustainability Conference

This session will include lessons learned from campus operators on putting ‘Green’ practices to work in dining facilities, Green Dining certification efforts, and challenges faced. This roundtable format will focus on ways dining managers have used resources available to them, and how specific data is collected and measured. Energy savings through equipment modifications such as demand ventilation and pulping machines will be addressed. Attendees will come away with a practical ‘Green Energy’ Checklist and a list of potential funding opportunities.

Number 2 - August 2008

Annual Report for the Institute for Global Citizenship

No abstract provided.

Gordie News, August/September 2008, West Chester University Of Pennsylvania

Gordon Natural Area History & Strategic Plan Documents

No abstract provided.

Employee Guidebook, 2008-2009, Lindenwood University

Employee Handbooks

Information and guidelines for Lindenwood University employees.

Geoarchaeological And Paleolandscape Reconstructions In The Lower Ohio River Valley: Late Wisconsin And Early Holocene Landforms In Knob Creek Bottom, Nathan Christopher Scholl

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study examines a paleolandscape model that focuses on alluvial landforms that date to the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene in Knob Creek bottom of the lower Ohio River valley. The study tests and refines a landscape model based on geoarchaeological data from the Caesars Archaeological Project. Analysis centers on the relationship between late Wisconsin and early Holocene Landform Sediment Assemblages (LSA), including early paleochannels. For this analysis a series of soil cores was extracted from the LSA understudy and described using standard USDA terminology. Additional analysis included particle size analysis using a hydrometer to determine textural composition of core …

Indiana Wildlife Disease News, Volume 3, Issue 3 - August 2008

Indiana Wildlife Disease News

Inside this issue:
Cautionary tale about rabies
USGS Disease Manual
Newcastle disease in MN
69th Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference
CWD in captive deer in Michigan
Midwest Wildlife Disease Update

Special points of interest:
• Newcastle disease
• Botulism
• Michigan Wildlife Disease Manual
• 69th Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference
• Newcastle disease in Minnesota cormorants
• First case of CWD in a captive Michigan deer herd

Species Richness Of Vascular Plants In The Riparian Transition Zones Of The Quebrada La Cruz And The Quebrada Socorro In Monteverde, Costa Rica, August 2008, Rhiannon Cook

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

While many studies have been performed to determine the effects of urbanization in the later stages of development on biodiversity, little is known about how biodiversity is affected by urbanizations in its early phases. This research evaluates how the biodiversity of herbaceous plants in the riparian ecotones of two rivers is affected in the transition from a rural to town setting. Morpho species diversity was sampled on two rivers of the Monteverde, Costa Rica area; the Quebrada Socorro, relatively unaffected by human influence, and the Quebrada La Cruz, which is greatly influenced by both the growth of town infrastructure and …

Environmental Forensics For Characterization Of Unexploded Ordnance In Soils At The Dolly Sods Wilderness Area, Amy Richmond Aylor

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The West Virginia Maneuver Area includes locations within the Dolly Sods Wilderness Area, the Canaan Valley National Wildlife Recreation Area, and private land holdings in Grant, Randolph, and Tucker counties of West Virginia. Between 1943 and 1944, the military trained troops in a 50,000 acre area which is now the Dolly Sods Wilderness area. This training was conducted by the U.S. Department of the Army and involved artillery and mortar training for troops destined for World War II combat in the mountains of Italy. This project focused on characterization and investigation of the environmental contamination resulting from military ordnance existing …

August 2008 Commencement Program, Bowling Green State University

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

2008 Uc/Csu/Ccc Sustainability Conference Program

Sustainability Conference

UC/CSU/CCC Sustainability Conference 2008. Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. July 31st - August 3rd, 2008.

Unh On "Green Honor Roll" Of Top 11 Sustainable Colleges, Beth Potier

Media Relations

No abstract provided.

Iwu Students Intern For A Cause, Teresa A. Sherman

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.

A Defense Of Jiang Rong’S Wolf Totem, Timothy Weston

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

I have a confession to make: I was moved by Jiang Rong’s Wolf Totem, think it’s an important novel and that it’s well worth reading. The reason I say I feel a need to “confess” as opposed to just being able to state this is because recent postingson The China Beat, as well as some of the reviews referenced in those postings, attack the book with a sharpness and thoroughgoingness that initially made me question my own taste and to think that I was politically incorrect for liking and being impressed by the novel as I read it. But after …

Water Levels Effects On Overall Customer Satisfaction:, Crayton Pruitt

All Theses

Abstract The combination of hydroelectric power generation and the amount of precipitation results in fluctuating water levels on the United States Army Corps of Engineers: Lake Hartwell. Beginning in 2002 and continuing to the end of survey year 2004, water levels ranged from approximately ten feet below full pool to within half a foot under full pool. These fluctuations created difficulty for adjacent landowners to access sufficient water depths for recreational needs. The problems were magnified by a common perception that neighboring lakes', Lake Keowee and Lake Thurmond, water levels had not dropped as dramatically. This study examined the effects …

The Educational Green: Researching Ways Of Combining Professions, Susan Wilks, Dominique Hes

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The Educational Green was an innovative 3rd year design studio held in 2007 in the faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne. The studio both informed and was informed by the authors' involvement in a Research Council (RC) grant (ongoing 2007-2010). It involved collaboration between university staff and students, a teacher educator and staff and students at a local secondary school as a case study and the studio leader wished to experiment with her teaching, evaluate it and respond to her evaluation immediately.

Legislative Committee On Public Lands, Margaret N. Rees

Presentations (PLI)

The Public Lands Institute is dedicated to strengthening the national fabric that is essential for the protection, conservation, multiple use, and management of public lands.

What's Regulation Got To Do With It? : Examining The Impact Of Regulatory Intensity On Facility Environmental Management And Performance, Cody Jones

Dissertations and Theses

Understanding the influence of regulation on environmental management is important—studies typically find regulation to be a significant influence on environmental activity. However, studies typically assess regulation together with a suite of other influences such as investors and customers, which are often also found to be significant influences on environmental management. This research, on the other hand, suggests that regulatory constraints form a framework within which organizations operate, and therefore are associated with organizations' views of other motivating factors, as well as environmental management and performance. Additionally, this study assesses the influence of management attitudes toward environmental protection and attitudes toward …

Summer Mustang, July 10, 2008

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.

Timing And Cause Of Water Level Fluctuations In Kluane Lake, Yukon Territory, Over The Past 5000 Years, Janice Brahney, John J. Clague, Brian Menounos, Thomas W. D. Edwards

Watershed Sciences Faculty Publications

We reconstructed late Holocene fluctuations of Kluane Lake in Yukon Territory from variations in bulk physical properties and carbon and nitrogen elemental and isotopic abundances in nine sediment cores. Fluctuations of Kluane Lake in the past were controlled by changes in climate and glaciers, which affected inflow of Slims and Duke rivers, the two largest sources of water flowing into the lake. Kluane Lake fluctuated within a narrow range, at levels about 25 m below the present datum, from about 5000 to 1300 cal yr BP. Low lake levels during this interval are probably due to southerly drainage of Kluane …

Vol.36 N.03 July 3rd 2008, Brown Publishing Company

Black Voice News

No abstract provided.

Investigating Environmental Change Due To Hypoxic Conditions On The Louisiana Continental Shelf: A Geochemical Approach, Marianne E. Dietz

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The Louisiana (LA) shelf is chronically affected by seasonal hypoxia that has been shown to be spatially expanding and growing progressively more severe. Hypoxic conditions on the shelf have been closely linked to the large quantities of nutrients delivered to the Gulf of Mexico via the Mississippi River. Multiple geochemical proxies on a suite of sediment cores from the LA shelf provide a record of environmental change that parallels the onset of hypoxic conditions over the last century and prior to anthropogenic influences. The sedimentary record for the last century shows a shift from terrestrial to algal sources to the …

Word Problems: Reflections On Embedding Quantitative Literacy In A Calculus Course, Gizem Karaali

Numeracy

Even though Quantitative Literacy (QL) programs are currently being developed and implemented in several colleges and universities, most schools still depend on traditional mathematics courses to reach their quantitative literacy goals. This note is a case study of how a traditional mathematics course sequence intended for students majoring in social and life sciences may be modified and adapted to at least partially fulfill the need in the absence of a stand-alone QL program. In particular, we focus on a freshman-level mathematics course sequence that serves various client departments. This sequence covers the traditional content of a first-year calculus sequence along …

Quantitative Literacy Across The Curriculum: A Case Study, Benjamin Steele, Semra Kiliç-Bahi

Numeracy

We describe a quantitative literacy (QL) program at Colby-Sawyer College, a small, residential, liberal arts college in New Hampshire. This program has grown rapidly from a traditional math curriculum to a college-wide understanding of quantitative literacy and voluntary participation by many faculty members in all departments. More than 80% of the faculty agreed that it would be useful for students to be able to use quantitative skills in their courses, but only 24 % thought students were capable of doing very well in mathematics. Twenty-three faculty members attended a summer workshop, funded by NSF, DUE # 0633133, in which they …

Camas, Summer 2008

Camas

One Year In A Janitor’s Closet / Brooke Havice -- Ten Years of Stony Sleep / Nathaniel Miller -- Sand / Craig Childs -- Everything I Know About Red Canyon Red / Chavawn Kelley -- Abandoned / Mike Quist Kautz -- Range-Finding, Western-Style / Mike Quist Kautz -- Rushing to Meet Dawn / Brant Cebulla -- Stealthwalkers / Katherine E. Standefer -- Bones / Bryce Andrews -- Sweat / Jessica Babcock -- The Springs at Night / Jessica Babcock -- The Blue Nun / Jeanine Stevens -- Replacing the Stairs / Aleria Jensen -- To Sacrifice an Ideal / Matthew …

A Prairie Rendezvous, Vol. 10, No. 3 (Summer 2008), Grand Prairie Friends

Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Estimates For Worldwide Laboratory Animal Use In 2005, Katy Taylor, Nicky Gordon, Gill Langley, Wendy Higgins

Laboratory Experiments Collection

Animal experimentation continues to generate public and political concern worldwide. Relatively few countries collate and publish animal use statistics, yet this is a first and essential step toward public accountability and an informed debate, as well as being important for effective policy-making and regulation. The implementation of the Three Rs (replacement, reduction and refinement of animal experiments) should be expected to result in a decline in animal use, but without regular, accurate statistics, this cannot be monitored. Recent estimates of worldwide annual laboratory animal use are imprecise and unsubstantiated, ranging from 28–100 million. We collated data for 37 countries that …

You've Gotta Read This: Summer Reading At Musselman Library (2008), Musselman Library

You’ve Gotta Read This: Summer Reading at Musselman Library

Each year Musselman Library asks Gettysburg College faculty, staff, and administrators to help create a suggested summer reading list to inspire students and the rest of our campus community to take time in the summer to sit back, relax, and read. These summer reading picks are guaranteed to offer much adventure, drama, and fun!

Insider Vol. 9 No. 3 Summer 2008, College Of Arts & Sciences

College of Arts and Sciences news

A Publication for Friends of the College of Arts and Sciences

Emeriti News, Summer 2008, Emeriti Council

Emeriti News

Contents from Volume XIII, Number 2:

• Review of the 2007-2008 Activities of the Emeriti Council
• Wednesdays II for Fall 2008 and Winter/ Spring 2009
• Other Events
• Emeriti Council Forum for Fall 2008
• The Council's New E-Mail List
• The Emeriti Council Website
• The 2008-2009 Members of the Council
• Sindecuse Health Center Pharmacy Wanted
• Emeriti Flu Clinic
• Emeriti Textbook Scholarship
• Emeriti Medallion Scholarships
• Invest in Your Health at the Student Recreation Center
• WMU Emeriti November Afternoon Outing
• The Annual Emeriti Breakfast