Magazine article from our research archive:
|
|
The green nitty gritty: whittling down the college list.
- Article from:
-
E
- Article date:
-
March 1, 2008
|
Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2008 Earth Action Network, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
With all the posh accoutrements on campuses today, students are as likely to choose a school for its gourmet food and weight rooms as for its academic programs. The green-minded student has just as many factors to consider when facing the mountain of applications. Here are a few schools' green achievements to weigh when making your decision. Many colleges have hybrid cars in their fleets, recycling bins around campus and compact fluorescent lights. But others go much further, challenging the wasteful status quo:
1. Burn, Baby, Burn. This fall, Middlebury College in Vermont is set to start operating its $11 million biomass plant, which should cut the college's greenhouse ...
|
FYI; Get your wood chips.(NEWS)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);
July 23, 1998 ;
Brandt, Steve;
358 words
...Anyone in the market for wood chips - a lot of wood chips? How about enough to cover a football field more than...taking an entrepreneurial approach to the biggest supply of wood chips it has had in years. The chips, of course, accumulated...
|
|
Be careful with fresh wood chips in the garden
Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review;
April 5, 2008 ;
Jessica Walliser;
472 words
......good news is that you can use those new wood chips. The bad news is that I'm going to be...why you don't want to use those fresh wood chips in the vegetable or flower garden. First...and most importantly in my mind, fresh wood chips are very high in carbon, and in order...
|
|
Millions at stake in suit over West Allis cyanide cleanup Electric, gas...
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;
July 14, 1999 ;
FRAN BAUER;
605 words
......testimony probing who may have dumped cyanide-laced wood chips at two sites in West Allis. There are only two...but left a residue of cyanide to be absorbed by wood chips. Tainted wood chips wound up in the two West Allis sites -- a city-own...
|
|
Wood chips working for Springfield, Vt., as other schools look to sign up.
Eagle Times (Claremont, NH);
December 27, 2005 ;
398 words
......Vermont consider making the change from oil heat to wood chips, one local school in its third year using the renewable...school officials considering whether to go with wood chips, also known as biomass, as fuel prices soar and...spurred interest. Springfield is considering using wood ...
|
|
ENVIRONMENTALISTS SEE DANGER WHERE TOWN SEES JOBS; A GERMAN COMPANY'S...
The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC);
December 10, 1999 ;
Frago, Charles;
787 words
......company's plans to build a mill to convert wood chips to fiberboard in Mt. Gilead, plans which...the plant, arguing that its demand for wood chips will mean more clear-cutting in southern...Although Homanit has said it will buy its wood chips from area lumber mills and won't cut...
|
|
Eufores exports wood chips to Japan.
South American Business Information;
August 17, 2004 ;
138 words
......M'Bopicua, wood sawing mills, and a wood chips manufacturing plant at Montevideo, has started regular exports of wood chips to Japan to where it plans to sell...company already exports 400,000 mtpy of wood chips to its parent company Ence at Spain...
|
|
CITY OFFERS FREE COMPOST, WOOD CHIPS
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;
September 2, 2008 ;
225 words
......their yards ready for fall with free wood chips and compost from the City of Fargo. The...purchase. Residents can pick up the free wood chips and compost from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on these...nutrients. It acts as a natural fertilizer. Wood chips can be used around the base of newly...
|
|
Village offers deal on wood chips.(Neighbor)
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);
June 22, 2000 ;
Robeznieks, Andis;
256 words
......looking to make a dip in its supply of wood chips. The May 18 storm uprooted several trees...branches. A month later, the mountain of wood chips at Lake Zurich's old public works facility...public can help. It's offering to give wood chips to anyone who wants them, free of charge...
|
|
French winemakers hope to cash in on wood chips
Charleston Gazette;
July 23, 2004 ;
Laurence Frost;
393 words
...PARIS - Wine flavored with wood chips was, until recently, just the kind of...reliable supply, as well as higher capacity. Wood chips could also be added to the maturing Vin...Most of our global competitors are using wood chips, and we think we should be able to do...
|
|
Swedish Inventors Develop Wood Chips Inorganic Elements Removal Process
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;
December 6, 2007 ;
308 words
......and Peter Axegard of Solna, Sweden, have developed wood chips inorganic elements removal process. According to the...amp; Trademark Office: "In a process of treating wood chips for reduction of the concentration of undesirable...cooking in a production line for chemical pulp, the wood ...
|
|
COUNTY DISPOSAL FEE FOR WOOD CHIPS WAIVED.(Local)
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);
February 1, 2006 ;
60 words
...Add to the short list of things in life that are free: disposing of wood chips in Oswego County. The county's solid waste division, which uses wood chips to compost fish waste, is waiving the $20 per ton fee on wood chip disposal...
|
|
Adding to the Garden; With a Path of Wood Chips or Nitrogen Supplements
The Washington Post;
February 11, 1988 ;
Charles Fenyvesi;
787 words
......involving uncommon garden additives. Wood chips. Those large and noisy tree-service trucks...in a day. They produce huge volumes of wood chips that normally must be transported to...asking. A 3- to 5-inch-thick blanket of wood chips makes a soft, lovely garden path that...
|
|
Wood chips in that smoky taste
Chicago Sun-Times;
November 19, 1987 ;
Sharon Sanders;
477 words
......flavor when cured in brine and smoked over wood chips. As a main course for an uncoventional...skin before smoking. Different types of wood chips add flavor variations. Hickory is robust...cherry is especially good with dark meat. Wood chips are sold in The National Turkey ...
|
|
Evaluating the use of green wood chips processed from small-diameter trees...
Forest Products Journal;
April 1, 2003 ;
Mackes, Kurt H. Lightburn, Charles R.;
787 words
......evaluate the possibility of utilizing green wood chips processed from small-diameter trees as...Over 98 tons of green ponderosa pine wood chips were introduced into plant processes...coal. The remaining 70 tons of green wood chips were mixed with coke at a ratio of 1...
|
See all results.
Or, try our
Advanced Search.
|