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Nurturing Environmental Literacy At Colby College: Higher Education And The Environmental Crisis, Molly Nash
Nurturing Environmental Literacy At Colby College: Higher Education And The Environmental Crisis, Molly Nash
Honors Theses
The environmental crisis will affect all people, career paths, and academic disciplines. Acknowledging this, does higher education have an obligation to educate all students for environmental literacy (EL)? This study reviews literature on how to effectively assess and implement EL initiatives and highlights how other colleges successfully nurture EL in all students. This study also uses quantitative and qualitative survey measures to understand student levels of EL at Colby College and to highlight specific programming or curriculum that leads to high EL levels in students. Findings include significantly different EL scores between environmental studies student respondents and respondents in all …
Designing A Green Graduation At Colby College, Alaina J. Clark
Designing A Green Graduation At Colby College, Alaina J. Clark
Honors Theses
Lately, there has been a growing trend of “green” events. The increase in understanding and discussions about the future climate has caused people throughout the world to become concerned about their contribution to climate change. This is true in the Northeast United States as well. Many New England colleges and universities, including Colby College in Waterville, Maine, are becoming leaders in climate change mitigation. As a teaching institution, Colby has recognized that public education is an important part of the solution to the climate crisis. Colby also understands that commencement weekend is an ideal opportunity for climate change education. As …
Carbon Neutrality At Colby College, Jamie K. O’Connell
Carbon Neutrality At Colby College, Jamie K. O’Connell
Honors Theses
Carbon neutral is a term used to describe any organization, entity, or process that has a net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions level of zero (Dautremont-Smith et al. 2007a). Since carbon neutrality only requires a net greenhouse gas emissions level of zero, organizations do not need to eliminate all carbon pollution to become carbon neutral. Net emissions differ from gross emissions in that gross emissions are the sum of all emissions released by the individual or entity, whereas net emissions are equivalent to the gross emissions minus any carbon offsets. A carbon offset is any activity that reduces carbon emissions so …