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Catawba Ecological Preserve Named for Fred Stanback in Surprise Ceremony
Catawba College’s 189-acre environmental preserve was named for environmental champion Fred Stanback on November 8 in a special surprise ceremony honoring the longtime benefactor and advocate of the Center for the Environment.
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Fred Krupp & Miriam Horn: Hope for Environment & Economy
David Peden: Environmental Pollutants & Health
Environmental Partners - Designing a Sustainable Future
Peter Forbes: Community-based Conservation
Amory Lovins: A Sustainable Future
Christopher Magryta: Nutrition, the Environment
News from the Center
by John Wear
Creating a Climate of Possibility
I recently watched a TED Talk by Ken Robinson, an English author and advisor on education, creativity and innovation. In it, he stressed the importance of creating a “climate of possibility” for students.
The minute he used that phrase, images of our National Environmental Summit for High School Students popped into my head. This week-long experience, which will be held this year from July 9-13, does just that: It creates a climate of possibility for high school students who come from all over the country to Catawba College in Salisbury, N.C., to work on innovative solutions to environmental challenges.
by Rebecca Rider
Author Francis Koster Shares Simple Solutions to Big Problems
Author Francis Koster told audience members May 16 that the way to get people to change is to provide them with an alternative.
He spoke at the Center for the Environment at Catawba College on his new book, Discovering the New America: Where Communities are Solving National Problems, stories of proven cost-effective solutions that communities and organizations have adopted to address challenges.
Read more … Author Francis Koster Shares Simple Solutions to Big Problems
by Juanita Teschner
Cleaning up the Mississippi River One Refrigerator, One Sink, One Tire at a Time
Seven million pounds of garbage – 961 refrigerators, 143 sinks, 67,000 tires, 3,700 55-gallon barrels, 63 messages in bottles and much, much more. That’s how much trash Chad Pregracke and his organization have dredged up from the Mississippi and 16 other major rivers over the past 15 years.
Read more … Cleaning up the Mississippi River One Refrigerator, One Sink, One Tire at a Time
by Juanita Teschner
Q&A Pete Myers
Dr. Pete Myers: ‘Science on Endocrine Disruption Offers Opportunity to Improve Public Health’
Dr. Pete Myers, a noted scientist involved in primary research on the impacts of endocrine disruption on human health, spoke April 9 at the Center for the Environment facility on the Catawba College campus in Salisbury. The founder, CEO and chief scientist of Environmental Health Sciences, he co-authored Our Stolen Future, a book about how contamination threatens fetal development. Juanita Teschner, the Center’s director of communications, talked with Myers after his visit to the Center. This is an edited transcript of that conversation.