The Point News » Green Campus http://thepointnews.com Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:22:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Students Support Referendum to Raise Fees for Green Projects http://thepointnews.com/2010/04/students-support-referendum-to-raise-fees-for-green-projects http://thepointnews.com/2010/04/students-support-referendum-to-raise-fees-for-green-projects#comments Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:10:53 +0000 Lara Southgate, Editor-in-chief http://thepointnews.com/?p=3296 Read More ]]> http://thepointnews.com/2010/04/students-support-referendum-to-raise-fees-for-green-projects/feed 0 Student Chronicles A Day in the Life of the Campus Farm http://thepointnews.com/2010/04/student-chronicles-a-day-in-the-life-of-the-campus-farm http://thepointnews.com/2010/04/student-chronicles-a-day-in-the-life-of-the-campus-farm#comments Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:05:09 +0000 Kyle Jerigan, News Editor http://thepointnews.com/?p=3276 The community garden isn’t the only farming project in the area. A plot at Chancellor’s Point is also being turned into a farm through the environmental studies course “Leave No Trace,” according to Historic St. Mary’s City Administrator Mike Benjamin. In order to create this farm, students in the class and in the Chancellor’s Point Project club will be doing independent projects under the umbrella “Permaculture” approach, which is a way of designing farms and other agricultural systems that mimic natural environments. Senior Kate Pollasch designed the layout of the plot as her senior art project; in another senior project, senior Bryan Alexander is also building an outdoor kitchen next to the plot. The plot has just recently been cleared of Wisteria trees and invasive species that nevertheless have left the soil in good shape for farming. According to Benjamin, this plot is the beginning of what will hopefully become an entire environmental studies field school at Chancellor’s Point. Tilling and planting will begin very soon. (Photo by Kyle Jernigan)Right off of Route 5, immediate South of Rosecroft Rd., lies a beige-brown house that is about as inconspicuous as one can imagine. Next to that house is a little plot of land that used to look just as unremarkable. Recently, however, it has experienced a transformation with the dedication and hard work of the [...]
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Read More ]]> http://thepointnews.com/2010/03/smc-gets-serious-about-organic-farming/feed 1 38.1908607 -76.4263992 Campus Blacks Out for Earth Hour http://thepointnews.com/2010/03/campus-blacks-out-for-earth-hour http://thepointnews.com/2010/03/campus-blacks-out-for-earth-hour#comments Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:53:25 +0000 Amanda Zelaya, Arts & Entertainment Editor http://thepointnews.com/?p=3030 During Earth Hour, members of the campus community had the opportunity to band together in multiple venues.On Saturday, Mar. 27, St. Mary’s students gathered for an hour and turned off all of their lights and electronics in honor of the energy conservation movement, Earth Hour.
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Read More ]]> http://thepointnews.com/2009/10/students-go-against-the-flow-to-take-back-the-tap/feed 0 Students Plant ‘Smoking Hot Sycamores’ and Other Trees around Campus Paths http://thepointnews.com/2009/10/students-plant-%e2%80%98smoking-hot-sycamores%e2%80%99-and-other-trees-around-campus-paths http://thepointnews.com/2009/10/students-plant-%e2%80%98smoking-hot-sycamores%e2%80%99-and-other-trees-around-campus-paths#comments Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:17:27 +0000 Jamie Haydel, Staff Writer http://www.thepointnews.com/?p=1186 Students braved the cold and the rain to plant trees like this one along campus paths to create ecologically sound wildlife buffers. (Photo by Brendan OIf there’s one thing that can be said of St. Mary’s students, it’s that we don’t lack concern for the environment.  While the rest of the community was huddled inside early Saturday morning avoiding the cold, rainy weather, about 15 students met at the Campus Center to take action and support the environment by getting [...]
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Read More ]]> http://thepointnews.com/2009/04/earth-day-fair-educates-students/feed 2 Students Save Endangered Trees http://thepointnews.com/2009/04/students-save-endangered-trees http://thepointnews.com/2009/04/students-save-endangered-trees#comments Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:17:15 +0000 Amanda Zelaya, Arts & Entertainment Editor http://www.thepointnews.com/?p=622 St. Mary’s students collaborated with Historic St. Mary’s City to plant trees on Mattapany Road. (Photo by Dave Chase)Several weekends ago St. Mary’s students in conjunction with Historic St. Mary’s planted chestnut trees on Mattpany Road, behind the Artist house. “The American Chestnut tree was one of the most indigenous trees in the American forest. Sometime in the 20th century a blight was introduced–a fungus that kills the trees,” said junior Kyle Wichtendahl, who [...]
Read More ]]> http://thepointnews.com/2009/04/students-save-endangered-trees/feed 0 Usage of Solar Panels to Cut Energy Costs http://thepointnews.com/2009/03/usage-of-solar-panels-to-cut-energy-costs http://thepointnews.com/2009/03/usage-of-solar-panels-to-cut-energy-costs#comments Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:54:46 +0000 The Point News http://www.thepointnews.com/?p=442 Read More ]]> http://thepointnews.com/2009/03/usage-of-solar-panels-to-cut-energy-costs/feed 0 Trays Taken Out of the Great Room http://thepointnews.com/2009/01/trays-taken-out-of-the-great-room http://thepointnews.com/2009/01/trays-taken-out-of-the-great-room#comments Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:50:20 +0000 Caroline Selle, Features Editor http://www.thepointnews.com/?p=79 Read More ]]> http://thepointnews.com/2009/01/trays-taken-out-of-the-great-room/feed 0