Graduation is approaching (Sunday!) and if you’re anything like me, you’ve been noticing some changes to your computer. I received my computer the summer before freshman year of college, and it is approaching its fourth birthday in August. Like all electronics, it grows slower and more incompetent with age. At the moment, it functions adequately, but as the screen continues to flicker and die without warning, and the USB ports similarly ending their functionality, it comes time to think about buying new computer – and how to responsibly dispose of the old.
If you are going to be around in October, there’s always …
The picture above is, surprisingly, not a consequence of the Keystone XL pipeline. Instead, it is due to Exxon Mobil’sPegasus pipeline, which similarly brings Canadian tar sands oil to refineries in the American Southwest. The above spill, which happened in Arkansas on March 31, 2013, required evacuation of 22 homes and spilled between 4,500 and 12,000 barrel equivalents of crude oil.
The Pegasus pipeline carries over 90,000 gallons of crude oil from Illinois to Texas per day. The carg0 originated as Canadian Wabasca Heavy crude.US Gulf Coast refineries are able to process the heavy tar sand oil, which is one of the …
I found this interesting image the other day:
According to the website where this image was found, the two photos were taken by protesters who had confined themselves within the Keystone XL Pipeline and were shocked by what they found at dawn. This compromised area of pipe is only a few yards away from a Winona, TX home and swingset.
The Keystone XL pipeline intends to transport sands/diluted bitumen from tar sands in Alberta, Canada to refining fields in Oklahoma and Texas. Currently only Phase I (Alberta to Illinois) and Phase II (Nebraska to Oklahoma) have been completed. In that time, the pipeline has …
On Wednesday, October 26, 2011 The Center for Environmental Initiatives (CEI) announced the University of Rochester won the 2011 Hugh E. Cumming Environmental Quality Award for making “a significant contribution to environmental protection, improvement or education in the Rochester-Genesee-Finger Lakes Region.” CEI honored the many efforts of the University of Rochester overseen or coordinated by Amy Kadrie, UF&S Recycling Coordinator. Events include education, community awareness, and specific programs such as E-Cycle Day, the household electronics recycling event for staff and students, as well as the Personal Documents Roundup held for the first time this past July. Congratulations to Amy and her crew for …
We often think of recycling as the number one way to help reduce waste. But did you know it only ranks third in the hierarchy of waste minimization (reduce, reuse, recycle)? The best possible way to keep trash from a landfill is to not create trash at all. The second best way is to find a way to reuse materials instead of throwing them away. This requires putting a little thought ahead into our daily activities, and often making a shift in our thinking. Take paper, for example. Before printing a document out, the best thing to do is ask yourself, “do I REALLY …
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