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Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Throughout history, farmers' markets have often served as the only alternative to farming as a means of obtaining food for nutritional, education, and socialization. Unfortunately, farmers' markets have lost their richness and popularity, often finding themselves only in affluent communities, serving people who are already informed about their food system and the farmers and food within them. Given proper founding, planning, and organizing, farmers'...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Our community of place is wherever we happen to live, right now. From this vantage point, where we can begin to learn the needs of the systems in which we actively participate day-by-day, we can begin to implement system interventions, to make local changes which can begin to add up to a more resilient system. We begin the process of rewriting our story by restoring our relationships to the land and to each other as our primary measures of wealth...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Used oil management in Texas provides significant and unique compliance challenges. In an effort to assist those that are involved in or contemplating participation, this guide has been developed to provide an overview of used oil management environmental compliance requirements associated with Used Oil Handlers (UOH) in Texas. The typical facility covered by this guide would store from 50,000 gallons to 1,000,000 gallons, and perform used oil collection...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In 2002, a representative from an organization called Living Routes spoke in my environmental ethics class at Green Mountain College. She was there to speak about study abroad opportunities that involved taking classes while staying in communities that practice living in harmony with nature, otherwise known as Eco Villages. She spoke about the curriculum at the Findhorn Foundation, an educational center started back in the 1960's by Peter and Eileen...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Fitness indicators of honeybees in man-made hives have been explored by looking at bee behavior, pest loads, absconding rates, diseases, weights, and by honeybee by-product production of wax, honey, propolis, and royal jelly. Scientists have concluded that bees have hive preferences according to the cavity volume, their entrances, and their hive location. Both a colony's ability to regulate temperature and humidity levels in the hive and to defend...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
There are inspiring efforts being put forth by NGOs (non-governmental organizations) and other groups to confirm, analyze, and communicate the value of their work. As the data surrounding NGO impact is standardized, funders, investors, and other stakeholders will gain a level of transparency into the performance of NGOs that was previously unavailable. As research shows, an NGO's ability to prove value and impact is pivotal to securing funds (Berg...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The use of cover crops in agriculture to enhance soil health, and, thus, increase crop health, is a well-known practice and has been a part of agriculture for thousands of years. Over the past century, however, cover crop usage diminished in America, due in large part, to the adoption of many modern farm technologies. Recently, the numbers of farmers using cover crops and the number of acres being planted in cover crops have been on the rise. The...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The challenge to the food system is due to rising populations, increased urbanization, and the exportation of high animal protein western diets. Food fish show promise for relieving some of the supply issues surrounding high input animal protein food sources for humans, yet there are lingering concerns about aquaculture's sustainability. Some advances in aquaculture methods including recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) have emerged, however, critical...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
This capstone project aimed to empower Sustainable Agriculture and beginning farmers as experiential learners while teaching them necessary technical skills for livestock management success. I prepared ten experiential sheep learning modules and taught these during the lab sessions of Animal Science and Livestock Management courses at Kennebec valley Community College (KVCC). These courses are part of the established Sustainable Agricultural associates...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
This paper will examine evidence-based research, literature, theories and trends in popular thought that either directly address spirit and nature or touch upon it in meaningful ways. It will begin with a review of relevant evidence-based research in conservation and environmental psychology, move on to a discussion of what writers, thinkers, religious leaders and community-based non-denominational spiritual organizations have to say on the subject,...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
For most consumers, navigating the modern food system to access good quality and affordable fresh foods has proved challenging. This has created a number of problems directly affecting collective health and wellness, including an increase in chronic diseases. Much research has been performed on the content of food in the modern human diet which has found an imbalance of nutrients: carbohydrates, fats, and proteins and a link to chronic food-related...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
This paper discusses habits and their role within the environmental domain. The implications of habitual behavior include the good, the bad, and the ugly. In order to amplify the good, diminish the bad and eliminate the ugly, certain plausible solutions already in hand can be applied to human behaviors in a practical manner that can potentially lead to wider spread environmentally responsible behavior. Approaches can be implemented on a personal level,...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
This article is a study to ascertain an open system nonprofit entity's ability to develop leaders who can effect positive social change within their host communities. The primary method of research is based upon a comprehensive multidisciplinary literature review that spans various sectors. This transdisciplinary evaluation is an approach to alleviate complicated issues and inspire nuanced solutions in a shared power environment: "as systems become...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Currently Heifer International is in year three of the application of Theory of Change, giving this research enough time to evaluate performance while allowing for early stage input into the process. Planned and evaluated change can generate a strategic design that incorporates the inevitable environmental and social shifts through tracked assumptions and calculations; this is the basic premise of TOC methodology. Heifer International is a 70 year...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This is a coyote management plan for the Southeast Region (SER) of the National Park Service (NPS). This plan sets goals and objectives to manage coyote populations within the SER park units. The plan was finalized after thorough literature review, best management practices review, and analysis of regional staff solicited survey responses. This management plan will be vital to the region as the coyote's geographic range spreads and their behavior...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An ecocritical lens allows for the interpretation of the role of the environment within a literary text. Five novels by Herman HessePeter Camenzind, Beneath the Wheel, knulp, Siddhartha, and Narcissus and Goldmundas well as several poems, are read from an ecocritical perspectice to show how Hesse's main characters interact with the natural world. Each of these characters forms connections with nature in his home place, on a journey away from home,...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
The Inuit of Canada used to be nomadic subsistence hunters. Following World War II, however, the Canadian Government created settlements into which they relocated most Inuit. With few job opportunities, members of these communities lacked ways to make money and survive. The arts became a vital form of income for them when, in 1948, an artist from the South taught printmaking to residents of Cape Dorset, Canada. Now, One in every four people in Cape...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Educating people on environment has been an ongoing process for many years. However, now educators and science professionals are beginning to realize that, if Environmental Education (EE) is started earlier in a student's life, then students will have a better chance of grasping and implementing the knowledge into their everyday life. In this study, one section of second grade special education students, students with an Individualized Education Plan...