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10/30/09--13:33: Students waste more food during no-tray meal (chan 2669667)

By Gabriel Weinstein CG News Staff gw711008@ohio.edu While results from the Oct. 5-8 Nelson Dining Hall food audits showed that student waste habits have slightly improved, the results from the “no-tray” meal at Nelson Dining Hall last night did not reflect this trend. The 1,077 diners at Nelson generated an average of 6.02 ounces of [...]


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11/05/09--19:22: Commentary: A Walk along the Great Hopewell Road (chan 2669667)

By Joe Brehm Commentary Following the Footsteps of the Ancients On Oct. 10, about 30 people set out to do something that had not been done in hundreds of years. They began a 7-day, 70-mile walk from Hopewell Culture National Historical Park in Chillicothe to the Octagon Earthworks in Newark. This same pilgrimage was undertaken [...]


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11/13/09--05:22: Forest Carnivore returns to Southeast Ohio (chan 2669667)

By Audrey Rabalais CG Science A small predator stalks its way through the night in Wayne National Forest, spotting a turkey feather on a tree and further enticed by the scent of beaver castor oil and catnip. It approaches the alluring trap, relieving an itch against blunt nails under the feather. With two quick camera [...]


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11/20/09--07:58: Bluegrass: Raising the Voice to Lower the Footprint (chan 2669667)

By Becca Cochran CG Lifestyles and People If you walk into Casa Cantina any Monday night, you’ll find yourself surrounded by a crowd of Birkenstock-clad, lively folks. Some are students, and some are Athens residents, but all are groovin’ to the sounds of Athens’ own Rattletrap Stringband. As you sit enjoying your food and beverage [...]


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11/27/09--08:48: Buying Secondhand: Good for the Wallet and the Environment (chan 2669667)

By Elyse McConnell CG Commentary In the world of fashion, one day you’re “in.” And the next day… You’re in a landfill.  Every year, each American sends 68 pounds of clothing to a landfill. Just like tie-dye t-shirts and MC Hammer pants, today’s styles typically end up buried (literally) before they have a chance to [...]


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12/04/09--05:53: Green Culture: Ways to Stop Energy Waste (chan 2669667)

By Sierra Legrier CG Commentary The issue of everyday electronic devises and their impact on energy consumption has evolved from a small round table discussion into a massive movement for conservation. Among those responsible for energy waste are the gadgets that we have incorporated into our everyday lives: cell phones, computers and television sets. According [...]


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12/11/09--06:44: Reclaiming Starry Nights: A local campaign to reduce light pollution (chan 2669667)

By Swati Ramanathan CG Commentary One of the unique and enduring pleasures of humankind is the ability to gaze up at the night sky in rapt wonder. Astronomy was the television of its day, with the stars and moon providing most of the night-light required by our ancestors. Finding patterns in the stars and familiarizing [...]


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12/20/09--08:17: Butternut squash soup – Fall recipe a good idea for the holidays (chan 2669667)

By Elyse McConnell CG Commentary There are hundreds of butternut squash recipes, but this particular one is my favorite. It became a family recipe, so much that we were unable to find it in any of our cookbooks — the only copy of it now is written on the back of a receipt, covered in [...]


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12/20/09--09:58: Long-awaited Copenhagen talks yield uncertain results (chan 2669667)

By Swati Ramanathan CG Commentary The 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference was held Dec 7-18 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The days leading up to the Copenhagen talks had all the usual ingredients for high drama: hacked E-mails that purportedly throw climate change into question, protests from individuals demanding tangible results, and last minute announcements by [...]


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01/31/10--09:22: College Green has a new web address (chan 2669667)

Hello College Green readers, I want to thank you all for your support and readership and the wonderful comments you have been leaving us. Over the year we have been working on improving our web site. We are still in this process so the design is not entirely complete. However, we are still publishing many [...]


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