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Oregon: Wallowas, northeast Oregon
A popular place for family backcountry skiing and snowshoeing, the Wallowas offer beautiful mountain scenery. For accommodations, the wing-ridge huts are considered an ideal place to lodge for day trips into the Wallowas. They contain two sleeping tents, a cook tent, sauna and latrine. It is advised to make reservations in advance, [...]
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Approximately 650 Whitman students received an e-mail from Whitman College Technology Services (WCTS) in early November notifying them of their paper consumption.
“To raise awareness of paper consumption on campus, we are contacting everyone who exceeds the median amount of printing among students,” the e-mail read; it also included printing statistics collected by WCTS over the [...]
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It’s Christmas time again: time to find presents for every single person on your list. The stores are usually a madhouse, and often presents bought at major department stores won’t be as environmentally friendly, due to the excess plastic used in packaging. Here are a few eco-friendly alternatives to regular gifts like sweaters and scarves, [...]
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Recycling has gotten a dirty rap as of late. And it’s not just greedy, anti-environmentalist aluminum and timber executives trying to make a buck and screw over the environment while they’re at it.
Environmentalists, politicians, climate change activists and the E.P.A. have all begun to question the merits of recycling.
And it’s true—recycling isn’t perfect. Most of [...]
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In 1996, John Tierney wrote in the New York Times Magazine, “Americans have embraced recycling as a transcendental experience, an act of moral redemption. We’re not just reusing our garbage; we’re performing a rite of atonement for the sin of excess.”
This is the article that Bob Biles, who works for Whitman’s physical plant as a [...]
