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Eat Your Invasives: A Practical And Historical Analysis Of Foraging For Invasive Foods, Grace Hartman

Honors Projects

This paper discusses both the historical and modern role of foraging and why people may decide to forage, as well as barriers new foragers may face and how they can be overcome. Furthermore, the paper discusses how foraging for invasive species can be used as a method of conservation and how simple foraging can be encouraged for this reason.

An Exploration Of A Year At The Ursinus Food Forest, Victoria Bearden

Environment and Sustainability Presentations

The Ursinus Food Forest began a commitment to a new form of sustainable land management at Whittaker Environmental Research Station. This management integrates lessons from urban agriculture, urban forestry, and agroforestry (see Clark & Nichols 2013) with principles of permaculture (Jacke et al 2005). Begun in 2017, and this past fall marked 2 years since the planting of phase one in 2019. In the fall of 2021 students, faculty, facilities, and volunteers planted the second phase of the food forest site, which added 7 new food producing species. Including this, many projects were created to enhance the site throughout the …

Future Energy: Opportunities & Challenges, Thomas W. Kerlin

Open Educational Resources and Course Materials

Future Energy: Opportunities & Challenges was originally published in 2013 by the International Society of Automation. Rights for this work have been reverted to the authors by the original publisher. The author has chosen to license this work with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Click the blue Download link on this page to download the full book PDF. Individual chapters are also listed and available for download in the list below.

Table of Contents

Part I. GETTING STARTED

Chapter 1 – Introduction to the Energy Story

Chapter 2 – Fundamentals

Chapter 3 – Energy Production and …

Sustainable Solutions, Fall/Winter 2020, Issue 41

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Environmentally Responsible Land Use, Spring/Summer 2010, Issue 22

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Sustainable Communities, Fall/Winter 2010, Issue 21

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Sustainable Building, Spring/Summer 2009, Issue 20

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Environmental History, Fall/Winter 2009, Issue 19

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Student Research, Spring/Summer 2008, Issue 18

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Evolving Pollution Prevention, Fall/Winter 2008, Issue 17

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Climate Change, Spring/Summer 2007, Issue 16

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Land Conservation, Spring/Summer 2006, Issue 14

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Green Cities, Spring/Summer 2005, Issue 12

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Global Sustainability, Fall/Winter 2005, Issue 11

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Environmental Justice, Spring/Summer 2004, Issue 10

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Kentucky's Environmental Future, Fall/Winter 2004, Issue 9

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Urban Ecology, Spring/Summer 2003, Issue 8

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Urban Regeneration, Fall/Winter 2003, Issue 7

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Urban Air Quality, Spring/Summer 2002, Issue 6

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Sustainability Of Industrialized Agriculture, Fall/Winter 2002, Issue 5

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Urban Design For Environmental Protection, Spring/Summer 2001, Issue 4

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Stream Restoration, Spring/Summer 2011, Issue 24

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Renewable Energy, Fall/Winter 2011, Issue 23

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Biodiversity, Fall/Winter 2012, Issue 25

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Active Transportation, Spring/Summer 2012, Issue 26

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Heat Islands, Fall/Winter 2014, Issue 29

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Sustainable Behavior, Spring/Summer 2013, Issue 28

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Campus Sustainability, Spring/Summer 2014, Issue 30

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Zero Waste, Spring/Summer 2017, Issue 36

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Environmental Clearinghouse Of Schenectady, Kate Van Patten

Honors Theses

This paper analyses Environmental Clearinghouse of Schenectady, a local nonprofit environmental organization. The paper investigates the history of the organization as well as the effectiveness of its organizational and funding habits. A literary review was conducted to analyze the success of ECOS mission as well as the positive effects ECOS has on society using elements such as environmental education, the importance of early environmental education, how well the organization connects urban residents with the outdoors and the effectiveness of environmental programs. This research promotes the importance of early environmental education on our future generations health and environmental conditions. Additionally, through …