When it comes to the environment, there are some solutions that just make sense—and usually, they stem from problems that don’t. Food waste and food insecurity are two such issues that walk hand in hand. The USDA estimates that 30-40 percent of the US food supply, or about 133 billion…
Greta Hardy-Mittell
For the first time in over a century, Carleton’s utility system received a makeover. Starting in the summer of 2019, a new geothermal energy system has been providing heating, cooling and hot water to all east campus buildings, from Anderson Hall to the Recreation Center. The system’s implementation culminates Phase…
On Friday, January 31, environmental health activist Peggy Shepard gave a convocation talk entitled “A Community Perspective on Environmental and Climate Justice.” She began by addressing the audience as fellow climate activists, posing the question, “how do we move from challenge to opportunity?” Her answer was climate justice. Throughout her…
Folk singer-songwriter Katie Dahl ’05 may never have picked up a guitar if it hadn’t been for one icy Minnesota winter. During her first January at Carleton, she slipped on a sidewalk coming down the hill from Goodhue and broke her right wrist. Down one hand, she couldn’t play the…
On Thursday, November 7, the Gould Library Athenaeum was filled with students, faculty and community members eager to hear guest lecturer Mariana Hernández Burg present a talk entitled “Resistance to Counter-Insurgency in Southern Mexico.” Hernández Burg is a community organizer and public educator with a degree in anthropology who has…
On Friday, November 8, Barbara Allen, Carleton’s James Woodward Strong Professor of Political Science and the Liberal Arts, accepted the American Politics Group 2019 Richard E. Neustadt Book Prize. The prize was awarded to her latest book: Truth in Advertising? Lies in Political Advertising and How They Affect the Electorate,…
Let me paint you a picture: it is 2016 in the Green Mountain State. Hillary Clinton has won the Democratic presidential nomination. The streets are filled with signs, the cars are plastered with bumper stickers, Facebook feeds burst with endorsements—for Bernie Sanders. Don’t get me wrong. There are many in…
A grant that supported low-income students in times of financial crisis has just reached the end of its two-year term. Endowed by the Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation (now Ascendium Education Solutions) in the fall of 2017, the Dash Emergency Grant provided Carleton with $168,000 to cover students’ unexpected expenses.…
Early Saturday evening, I went to see a play. I did not take a bus to the Twin Cities or ride my bike to the Weitz; I walked to the Rec parking lot and was pointed into the Arb. For this play’s stage is the same as its subject and…