EMU administration, students join forces to aim for sustainability
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On any given day at Eastern Mennonite University, you may see a young person riding a bicycle with an attached trailer piled with recyclables.
Search Results for environment
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Five local organizations to host two candidate forums
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Residents are invited to join candidates for Harrisonburg City Council on Tuesday, September 30 for the first of two candidate forums. The next is on Wednesday, October 15.
Ten-day village building convergence rocks small town Sebastopol
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Participants in the ambitious ten-day Sebastopol Village Building Convergence (VBC) painted murals on streets in this small Northern California town and filled the Grange Hall, the Permaculture Skills Center.
Charlottesville artist Isabelle Abbot to exhibit work at Bridgewater College
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Charlottesville, Va., artist Isabelle Abbot will exhibit paintings from the central Virginia Piedmont in the Cleo Driver Miller Art Gallery at Bridgewater College Sept. 22 – Oct. 15.
Virginians headed to NYC for largest climate event in history
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Over 80 activists from Richmond and surrounding areas began their journey to the People’s Climate March taking place today in New York City. The march, which starts at 11:30 a.m., is being hailed as the largest climate march in history.
Earth Talk: Palm oil production and rainforest deforestation
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Palm oil may be a good substitute for trans fats in that it stays solid at room temperature and is therefore useful as a food additive in things like snack bars. But it isn’t much healthier.
Virginia Department of Health updates closure of shellfish harvesting
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The Virginia Department of Health announced Friday that a portion of the James River will be opened to harvesting shellfish effective September 20, 2014.
Virginia’s power plants major global warming polluters
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A new study shows Virginia’s coal-fired power plants dump as much carbon pollution into the atmosphere as the entire nation of Croatia.
Report: Decades of coal ash pollution leaking Into Potomac
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Five coal ash ponds at Dominion’s Possum Point power plant have been illegally leaking toxic pollutants for decades into groundwater and two popular waterways near Washington, D.C.
Upcoming EMU events
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Below is a listing of the next three weeks of EMU related events. Please contact me if you have questions or need more information.
