Center For Environment News 2011

PowerHouse Recycling finds new uses for old electronics

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:05:00 -0500

SALISBURY — Once constructed in near-sterile conditions with precision and care, old PCs meeting their end at PowerHouse Recycling are dismantled in a flurry of power tools and destruction.

Center for Environment at Catawba Accepting Applications for National Environmental Summit

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:58:00 -0500

SALISBURY – The Center for the Environment at Catawba College is now accepting applications for its 2012 National Environmental Summit for High School Students. The event, “Redesigning Our Future,” is an intensive experience which is open to high school students who will be juniors and seniors in the 2012-2013 academic year.

Sustainable Catawba Examines Recognition Program to Encourage Green Practices

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:53:00 -0500

The Sustainable Catawba initiative is examining ways to encourage faculty, staff and students to make changes that will move the college further down the path of sustainability. Research indicates that raising awareness and providing recognition can change behaviors in ways that will make the campus “greener.”

Marty Pickett of Rocky Mountain Institute wrote about the Center's 15th anniversary celebration in her blog.

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 21:07:00 -0500

‘Sustainable Catawba’ to Coordinate, Strengthen Environmental Efforts

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:22:00 -0500

Students – and prospective students – are placing more importance on colleges’ sustainability record than ever before. Environment & Energy, a publishing firm, recently noted that “colleges are…beginning to see that environmental initiatives have impacts on how their peers, along with their current and past students, perceive them. A school’s reputation may hinge as much on its green credibility as it does on conference titles and championships.”

Catawba Graduate Gives Students Advice during Center’s Anniversary Celebration

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:33:00 -0500

Catawba College graduate Ben Prater gave students advice on marketing themselves November 29 as part of the Center for the Environment’s 15th anniversary celebration.

Eradicating Hunger in the World

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 08:55:00 -0500

Dr. John Coonrod, executive vice president of The Hunger Project, encouraged the 70-plus people gathered at the Center for the Environment facility November 15 to “sustain their enthusiasm” in working to eradicate hunger and other problems in the world today.

Center for the Environment Celebrates 15th Anniversary

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 09:03:00 -0500

The Center for the Environment’s 15^th anniversary celebration on November 10 elicited a host of praise and appreciation for the work of the Center and for those who have brought its mission to life. Among the 80-plus people at the celebration included Catawba officials and professors, members of the Center Advisory Board and supporters. “The Center is all of us,” said Executive Director John Wear, “and we all feel very proud of what we have accomplished.”

Summit Participant: “My generation must fix the problems of the world”

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 10:55:00 -0500

Claudia Meyer left the Redesigning Our Future National Environmental Summit for High School Students this summer with a sense of urgency about the planet that she didn't have before.

Environmental Stewardship & Empowering Villagers around the World to Meet their Needs

Sat, 05 Nov 2011 14:00:00 -0400

Dr. John Coonrod, executive vice president of The Hunger Project, will speak on “The Frontline of Sustainability” at 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 15, in Room 300 of the Center for the Environment facility on the Catawba College campus. He talked recently with Juanita Teschner, Center director of communications, about his organization and how its work is related to environmental stewardship. This is an edited transcript of that conversation.