Melting ice caps. Retreating glaciers. Carbon emissions. Global Warming means all this and more . Is this "inconvenient truth" also an undeniable fact? Not so, according to some outside the "Go Green" mainstream. Amy Davis talks to members of the Dartmouth community to find out why one person's fluke heat wave is another's sign of impending environmental destruction. More »
In the past week, my life's very foundation has been shattered. You see, over the course of seven days I went from dreams of the biggest, bestest ice sculpture ever to nightmares of yet another Winter Carnival decorated with Thompson Arena's leftover ice shavings. In short: damn, it got hot out. More »
It wouldn't be early January in the media without some sort of nod to the New Year, whether looking backwards to the year that was or forwards to what will be. Choosing to be "edgy" rather than staid, the Mirror presents predictions for 2008, brought to you by the ever-imperiled Alex Howe. More »
Is Dartmouth getting hotter or colder? Does the number on the thermometer even matter to the students? Southern belle-turned-New Englander Jean Ellen Cowgill explores the ins and outs of the weather and whether or not it keeps Dartmouth students bundled up. More »
Green isn't just a color or shorthand for "sustainable" -- now it's a trend. Katherine Gorman looks at how the prospect of a warmer world is bringing reality into the closet. More »
You might not wear black leather to class or stage makeup to the frats, but you probably like the musical genre of metal more than you think. Divya Gunasekaran explains. More »
__Ruth Hupart '08, Co-chair of Sustainable Dartmouth__ _Do you think that our knowledge of the environment has changed in the past decade? _ As a freshman, I wasn't an activist; at that point it was still very much a fringe interest. But then the next year "An Inconvenient Truth" came out, and now technical terms don't need to be defined anymore. "Carbon offsets" used to be a very technical term, but now there's enough general awareness about it -- not general action yet, but awareness. More »
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