environment

Armed with shovels and environmental initiative, eco-friendly students gathered outside of Pupin Friday afternoon for the groundbreaking of Columbia’s new community garden. The project aims to raise student awareness about sustainability, agriculture, and food-related issues.

As we all know, unsustainable living is having such a detrimental effect on wildlife that is hovering on the edge of irreparable destruction. What I did not know, however, was the concept of "hotspots."

At Columbia, we have at least five restaurants that serve sushi within a five-minute walking distance, but not many of us are aware that the demand for fish has forced fishermen to put profits before long-term economic and environmental well-being.

The kickoff of RecycleMania, a nationwide recycling competition found on 88 college campuses across the country, has highlighted Barnard’s recent attempts to “Go Green” and to follow Columbia’s lead with its recent addition of EcoReps to its college.

In the early 1960s, Manley Natland initiated a plan to nuke much of northeastern Alberta. The purpose of this nuclear landscaping project was to superheat and compress the oil in the Athabasca region’s bitumous soil so that it would become less viscous and then pool into the cavities left by the underground explosions.

The debate is over: climate change is a reality. Without a serious effort to reduce carbon emissions within the next decade, the consequences could be staggering.

“Since when does Barnard care?” asked a Barnard College senior after the first class council meeting of the year. The question was in response to a goal of the Student Government Association: to “Go Green at Barnard.” This year, the SGA hopes to bring about meaningful change on our campus.