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5 Ways Dartmouth College is a Sustainability Leader
We are really excited to be able to run our Environmental Leadership Academy at Dartmouth College. We think it’s a really unique way for high school students interested in sustainability to explore that interest, enhance their understanding of the subject matter, develop an idea for a sustainability initiative, and have a lot of fun while… Read More
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Who Are Sustainable Summer Students?
Anyone who has been to college will tell you their fellow students were every bit as, if not more, important as their professors, classes, and other aspects of the college experience. In other words, the students make the school, not the other way around. We’ve long maintained one of the three things that makes Sustainable… Read More
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High School Film Intern Wanted
Summer Film Internship in Ecuador for One Lucky High School Student Sustainable Summer (www.sustainablesummer.org) is accepting applications for a film intern to direct and shoot a series of short videos about our summer program in Ecuador for high school students. Sustainable Summer is an environmental study abroad program that teaches high school students about sustainability…. Read More
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Why Send Your Teen on an Environmental Leadership Program?
There are dozens of different varieties of summer enrichment programs on the market for high school students, from language and cultural immersion to adventure travel and service learning, so why should you send your teen on an environmental leadership program this summer? Here at Sustainable Summer, we believe there are few things more important than… Read More
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Earth Day Sustainability News
As we approach Earth Day 2013, I thought it would be a fun idea to share some of the sustainability news that has caught my attention in the last couple of months. I get most of my news from the NYTimes and NPR. The Times is more heavily represented here because it is just a… Read More
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A Failure to Future Generations
Today Barack Obama was sworn into the office of president of the United States for the second time, and he laid out an ambitious plan for what he plans to accomplish in the next four years. Unlike his first inaugural address, which focused largely upon the financial crisis that was then unfolding, this time he… Read More
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Why Summer is the Perfect Time for Adventure
Jeff and I have already attended several study abroad and summer opportunities fairs for high school students this fall, and we have quite a few more on the horizon. These fairs offers students a chance to investigate a broad range of different camps and programs, and to decide what type of experience they’d like to… Read More
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New York State of Mind
The New York Times reports that officials in New York City are already contemplating major investments to mitigate damage from future weather events like “Superstorm” Sandy that threaten the city’s infrastructure, which are expected to occur with greater frequency due to climate change. First of all, if cities worldwide recognize the threat of global climate… Read More
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The Political Dimensions of Sustainability
Too often when people think about the concept of sustainability it is associated with ‘the environment’ or some related idea, like climate change. But the environmental consequence of non-sustainable behavior are symptoms of economic and social causes. Similarly, when we think about specific environmental problems, we (the proverbial ‘we’ as in ‘global society’) tend to… Read More
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Sustainability
Anytime a movement gains traction within a culture, it develops its own vocabulary, and as those key words and phrases become increasingly widespread, their meaning often becomes blurred. In the late nineties, as Silicon Valley was positively exploding, there pre-fixes ‘e,’ ‘i,’ ‘techno’ and ‘cyber’ seemed to pop-up in the unlikeliest of places. I worked… Read More
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