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Turkeypalooza 2010
November 25, 2010 | Community, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Student, Sustainability, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Wake Forest students have taken the holiday to those most in need. Volunteers cooked traditional Thanksgiving day meals on campus and delivered them to local agencies as part of Turkeypalooza.
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Called to act
November 12, 2010 | For Alumni, For Parents, National, Pro Humanitate, Provost, Speakers, Sustainability, Top Stories
Across the U.S., racial minorities and the economically disenfranchised suffer disproportionally from the ill effects of assaults on the environment and often lack access to the power to protect their communities. Leaders in environmental justice discuss what can be done.
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Is your neighborhood killing you?
November 8, 2010 | For Alumni, For Parents, National, Research, Sustainability, Top Stories
Numerous studies reveal that communities with people of color have borne greater health and environmental risk burdens than society at large. The University will host a discussion on the issues surrounding environmental injustice.
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Thoughtful about food
October 13, 2010 | Life on Campus, Student, Sustainability, Top Stories
The Office of Sustainability is experimenting with ways to reduce food waste. One possible solution is an organic waste recycling system that works as a dehydrator.
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Peace Haven
October 6, 2010 | Alumni, Community, For Alumni, Sustainability, Top Stories
Buck Cochran (’82) found his calling — and his own inner peace — in a community where sustainability is about more than farming.
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Brazil nut harvesting
October 4, 2010 | International, Student, Sustainability, Top Stories, Wake Forest College, Working Together
Two Wake Forest seniors, Cate Berenato and Katherine Sinacore, spent four weeks in Peru this summer helping to determine which programs are best at helping sustain Brazil nut harvesters, their families and the rainforest.
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Green means go
September 21, 2010 | Community, Life on Campus, Student, Sustainability, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Wake Forest is working to find alternative transportation solutions that are more environmentally sustainable, like car-sharing and shuttle services. Participation in the Zipcar program is rising, and fewer freshmen purchased parking permits this year.
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New South Residence Hall models sustainability
August 16, 2010 | Life on Campus, Student, Sustainability, Top Stories
With solar panels on the roof to heat water and touch screens in the hallways for monitoring energy usage, Wake Forest’s newest residence hall has the latest in green technology.
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Seniors leave behind lasting projects that will continue to have an impact on campus and beyond
May 14, 2010 | Pro Humanitate, Student, Sustainability, Wake Forest College
Some seniors, in the spirit of Pro Humanitate, have left legacies at Wake Forest that will last long after the last tasseled cap falls on Hearn Plaza.
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A passion for parks: History’s Emily Wakild receives NEH grant to study Mexican national parks
May 4, 2010 | Humanities, International, Research, Sustainability
History professor Emily Wakild is passionate about Mexican parks.
She has spent more than a decade researching and writing about the legacy of the Mexican Revolution in the early- to late-1900s, a period in which government planners created a system of national parks to achieve both social goals and environmental conservation.
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