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"Sustainability"
Enviance, Inc. and Environmental Leader recently named Montana
State University as one of the “Sustainable 16,” a group of 16 colleges and
universities exemplifying excellence in environmental academics in the
first-ever March Madness Tournament for Environmental Studies.
“The ‘Sustainable 16′ has been selected from a highly competitive field of
colleges and [...]
Older buildings often carry a reputation as costly to heat in the winter, inefficient in their overall use of energy and difficult to make substantial energy-saving gains in. When considered across the spectrum of environmental factors, however, retention and adaptive reuse of historic structures is a very “Green” endeavor. If you really want to “go [...]
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Do any of the following exclamations apply to you? I get a headache when I clean. I can’t have my son clean the bathroom because it aggravates his asthma. My dog won’t go in the room when our oven is self-cleaning. That stainless steel cleaner from the manufacturer smells nasty. I don’t want my kids [...]
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What could be better than a day of celebrating the earth, except possibly an entire week of activities centered on the environment and sustainability? The City of Bozeman in collaboration with Montana State University and the Associated Students of Montana State University (ASMSU) have come together to present the fourth annual Gallatin Earth Celebration (GEC) [...]
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The Emerson Garden Tour showcases vegetable gardens and fall harvest plantings. It takes place on August 19th and 20th. Dates have been changed from June to August to provide more time for growing. Nominations and suggestions for gardens are now being accepted! Please call the Emerson office to suggest a garden or help with the tour [...]
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I am often asked what to do about various items, if they are recyclable? Well yes and no. The market is constantly changing, but currently the following items are recyclable because there are end markets for them:
Plastic: 1-7, clean and free of food contamination. You can crush the air out of the milk /juice [...]
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Bill Stoddart
Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity. ~Goethe
There is a bit of a paradox in thinking endless growth can be sustainable. After all, the idea of something growing forever suggests it will inevitably become all-encompassing and all-consuming. Low-budget horror flicks come to mind, like Independence Day 2026: The Hibiscus [...]
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Carolyn Hopper
What’s that swimming in your soup? Shark fins? Is the next course orange roughy? Bluefin tuna sushi? And how, one might ask, is the orange roughy and the shark’s fin the ocean and the ocean us?
It’s all about hydrogen bonds, or chains, and food chains and how they are as inextricably [...]
