Articles Tagged ‘ Climate Change ’
April 3, 201212:23 am
Students Fight Climate Change With S’mores and Bonfires
By Maria Smaldone, Assistant Editor
For one hour on the evening of March 31, students gathered around the crackling fire pit in Waring Commons (WC) amidst smoky wind and marshmallows as part of the international event known as Earth Hour. SEAC (Student Environmental Action Coalition) hosted the St. Mary’s Earth Hour event, which occurs when “people in over 130 countries [...]
September 27, 201112:16 am
Adler, Hovland, Williams Bring Global Climate Change Issues to Light
By Mary Beth McAndrews, Contributing Writer
Greenhouse gases, CO2 emissions and global warming are common words in today’s vocabulary. On September 14 in Schaefer Hall, Dr. Charles Adler of the Physic Department, Dr. Bill Williams of the Biology Department and Dr. Al Hovland of the Chemistry Department gave a panel discussion on those very topics. The talk was split into three sections, with each professor having their own section concerning the energy crisis. The panel was concluded with questions from the audience.
November 2, 201112:12 am
Debate on Climate Change, Environmental Effects
By Ariel Webster, Contributing Writer
As part of the Natural Science and Mathematics (NS&M) Colloquium series this semester, Nobel Peace Prize winner and Professor at Penn State University in the Department of Meteorology and Geoscience, Michael E. Mann came to St. Mary’s to discuss the reality and politics of climate change in Schaefer Hall on Oct. 26. Mann began his [...]
December 7, 20109:02 am
Climate Change, The International Issue
By Chelsea Howard-Foley, Contributing Writer
While those of us here at St. Mary’s are busy writing papers, working projects, and studying for exams, our world leaders are busy at the 16th Conference of the Parties (COP16) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
April 27, 201012:01 pm
Climate Change and Activists Won’t Delay, but United Nations Will
From April 9 to 11 I attended the United Nation’s Framework Convention on Climate Change interim negotiations in Bonn, Germany. This session was the first meeting of the convention since Copenhagen in December and the goal was to create a negotiating schedule for the months leading up to COP16 in Cancun. It was supposed to [...]
February 9, 20105:49 pm
Perspective From Inside of the Bella Center: Policy, With Some Protest
This opinion is a part of a Point-Counterpoint on the Copenhagen Conference, read Aaron French’s Opinion. In December of 2009 I attended the 15th Conference of Parties (COP15) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen, Denmark as a delegate of the Sierra Student Coalition (SSC). I was one of 500 [...]
February 9, 20105:48 pm
Perspective From Outside of the Bella Center: We Need Direct Action
This opinion is a part of a Point-Counterpoint on the Copenhagen Conference, read Chelsea Howard’s Opinion. In the months leading up to the COP 15 climate negotiations in Copenhagen this past December, I was confused about what my role would be. I had specifically planned to study abroad in the fall semester so I could [...]
November 3, 20098:58 am
Kolbert Talks Climate Change
By Caroline Selle, Staff Writer
On Wednesday, Oct. 21, reporter Elizabeth Kolbert lectured on the history and future of climate change as revealed by Arctic ice. The lecture was based on her book, Field Notes from a Catastrophe, in which she chronicled the stories of scientists researching the arctic.
March 31, 20099:57 am
Campus Turns Out the Lights to Celebrate Earth Hour
By Caroline Selle, Staff Writer
On March 28, lights went out across the globe at 8:30 p.m. local time. Starting with New Zealand, countries around the world began to turn off their lights as part of Earth Hour 2009. Las Vegas, Nevada, went dark, as did Times Square in New York City. As the official Flagship Campus of Maryland for [...]
March 31, 20099:54 am
Usage of Solar Panels to Cut Energy Costs
One reason St. Mary’s is not your run of the mill school is that students have a real say in a lot of the decision making that goes on (depending on the area of course). In the past year alone, amongst other initiatives, students have spearheaded movements to change the controversial “protest policy” in “To [...]
