http://thepointnews.com Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:22:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://thepointnews.com/2009/11/student-activists-to-demonstrate-in-denmark-for-climate-change-at-un-meeting http://thepointnews.com/2009/11/student-activists-to-demonstrate-in-denmark-for-climate-change-at-un-meeting#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:58:41 +0000 Peter Sparklin, Sports Editor http://www.thepointnews.com/?p=1470 Read More ]]> http://thepointnews.com/2009/11/student-activists-to-demonstrate-in-denmark-for-climate-change-at-un-meeting/feed 0 http://thepointnews.com/2009/10/students-go-against-the-flow-to-take-back-the-tap http://thepointnews.com/2009/10/students-go-against-the-flow-to-take-back-the-tap#comments Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:34:16 +0000 Lara Southgate, Editor-in-chief http://www.thepointnews.com/?p=1197 This semester, the students of St. Mary’s Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC) are running the “Take Back the Tap” campaign in order to raise awareness about the problems associated with bottled water.
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Read More ]]> http://thepointnews.com/2009/04/earth-day-fair-educates-students/feed 2 http://thepointnews.com/2009/03/82-st-mary%e2%80%99s-students-get-eco-active-at-power-shift http://thepointnews.com/2009/03/82-st-mary%e2%80%99s-students-get-eco-active-at-power-shift#comments Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:59:08 +0000 Caroline Selle, Features Editor http://www.thepointnews.com/?p=206 On Feb. 27, over 11,000 people, most between the ages of 18 and 24, congregated in D.C. for the largest conference on energy and climate change in the nation’s history.  Power Shift 2009, run by the Energy Action Coalition, was held at the DC Convention Center from Friday, Feb. 27 to Monday, March 2. The College [...]
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