Archive for "Sep 2011"

How should we talk about climate change?

By Emily Bowers (This is Part 3 of a three-part series on climatologist, Dr. Cameron Wake. Read Part 2 here.) Part 3: On Sustainability Dr. Cameron Wake has been heavily influenced and inspired by the University of New Hampshire’s chief sustainability officer, Tom Kelly, who leads the university’s sustainability programs. Started in 1997, the UNH [...]

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Monadnock Literary & Arts Festival

If you gave a 250 acre farm over to a group of writers, artists, actors, musicians and filmmakers for three days, you might well get anarchy. Or you’d get an amazing festival… September 16-18 Glen Brook’s annual Monadnock Literary & Arts Festival invites writers, artists, musicians – and participants – to celebrate the effects of [...]

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What ice cores tell us about our past and future

By Emily Bowers (This is Part 2 of a three-part series on climatologist, Dr. Cameron Wake. Read Part 1 here.) Part 2: The Ice Cores of Research Dr. Cameron Wake’s research started with the analysis of ice cores from the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau and evolved to include cores from Arctic glaciers. He studied [...]

From mountaineer to climatologist: a profile of Dr. Cameron Wake

By Emily Bowers Part 1: The Ascent from Mountaineer to Climatologist A childhood adventure in the Canadian Rockies completely altered the course of Dr. Cameron Wake’s life. He was 14 when he traveled, on the suggestion of his older brother, from his hometown in Montreal to Banff National Park to complete a mountaineering course. He [...]

New Terrain award for undergraduate writers

Whole Terrain, the nationally renowned literary journal of Antioch University New England, has established an annual award for outstanding undergraduate writers. We’re seeking environmental essays from current undergraduates for this year’s volume. The writer of the winning essay will receive the New Terrain Award of $500 and have his or her work published in the [...]

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