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Keystone Protests Continue with “Die-in” on Steps at Frist
Friday, 07 March 2014
by Spencer Parts
Roughly thirty-five students simultaneously laid down on the Frist stairs Thursday night, silently protesting the Keystone XL pipeline and expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure. Led by Mason Herson-Hord and some of the other campus activists who had tied themselves to the White House gates last weekend protesting the pipeline, the students laid on the steps
- Published in Goings On, Politics, Princeton in the News
IN PRINT: Sustainable Princeton plans six-month Pilot Curbside Food Waste Composting project
Wednesday, 19 January 2011
by Abby Greene
We’ve all been there – being kinder to our environment looks great on paper, but sometimes it just seems out of reach. It’s all too easy to get caught up in the daily grind and forget all about how much our planet needs our help. That’s why Sustainable Princeton has jumpstarted a Curbside Composting Pilot
- Published in In Print
IN PRINT: Not too preachy about the planet
Friday, 30 April 2010
by Miriam Geronimus
PRINCETON BOROUGH — Though he had been concerned about the environment since his childhood, Derek Gideon, now a sophomore at Princeton University, never thought he could have an impact on it. “I read a lot about environmental issues but I always thought about it as something scientists and engineers would need to worry about,” he
- Published in In Print
IN PRINT: Sundaram on Climate Change
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
by Samantha Pergadia
United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development Jomo Kwame Sundaram said the international community needs a “big push” effort to address climate change, during a speech in 016 Robertson Hall Monday evening. “Rather than see [climate change] as a problem that should be solved incrementally and gradually, what is really needed is a ‘big push’
Jeffrey Sachs: Everybody hates the poors
Tuesday, 05 May 2009
by Angela Wu
Princeton’s American Whig-Cliosophic Society awarded Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and sustainable development professor Jeffrey Sachs the James Madison Award for Distinguished Public Service tonight. Sachs, who also serves as a special adviser to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon told the audience that rich nations need to remember that they have a
- Published in Goings On
Muldoon goes green with Obama
Tuesday, 17 March 2009
by Samantha Pergadia
Professor Paul Muldoon, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, will rediscover his Northern Ireland roots as he spends St. Patrick’s Day with President Obama and 400 other Irish guests for celebrations at the White House. Lets hope the green-dyed fountains and Irish whiskey provide Muldoon with all the poetic inspiration he needs for some more “Moy Sand