Stories about "Sustainability"
To succeed in an environmental career, pick a problem and become an expert, say Bates alumni
Thursday, March 12, 2020 5:35 pm
Dive deep into your chosen field by getting involved both locally and internationally, and by keeping tabs on a rapidly changing world.
Worms ate my coffee cup! and other Green Innovation Grants for 2019–20
Tuesday, February 25, 2020 4:36 pm
From plastic-eating worms to stapleless staplers, Bates' Green Innovation Grants support surprising — and surprisingly effective — sustainability projects.
This Month in Bates Outing Club History: January
Thursday, January 9, 2020 2:57 pm
Throughout 2020, as the Bates Outing Club celebrates its centennial, we'll share monthly highlights about what's made the club distinctive and beloved.
My Last Year: Semester’s end is a time of firsts and finalities for Jane Costlow
Tuesday, December 17, 2019 1:15 pm
The last few weeks of the semester represent the beginning of the end of Jane Costlow's 34-year career on the Bates faculty.
Video: Maddie Hallowell ’20 and the lows and highs of data collection
Friday, December 13, 2019 9:13 am
Inspired by her childhood in a Maine island community, Hallowell is developing sensors to track climate change. For fun, she sends balloons into the stratosphere to see what's there.
Slideshow: From rubbish to runway at the 2019 Trashion Show
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 2:15 pm
At the 2019 Trashion Show, student models and designers posed for portraits and explained the creativity behind their outfits made from campus trash.
My Last Year: ‘Trying to get too much done in too little time’
Thursday, November 14, 2019 3:16 pm
It's trying, says Jane Costlow, trying to excel at the triad of faculty responsibilities — teaching, research, and service — sometimes all at the same time.
My Last Year: Jane Costlow, a professor-activist ‘in solidarity with others who really care’
Friday, October 11, 2019 11:00 am
A teachable moment during the Global Climate Strike prompts a veteran Bates professor to examine her history of activism.
‘We have to take action’: Bates students, faculty join in Global Climate Strike
Friday, September 27, 2019 11:07 am
The words are right there in the Bates mission statement: a call to "informed civic action." And it played out in Portland last week as Bates students took center stage at the Global Climate Strike.
Q&A: It’s time for a new paradigm in our view of how to live, says Ethan Miller
Thursday, September 26, 2019 3:45 pm
In a 2019 book, Bates lecturer Miller calls for a fundamentally new approach to the conversation about living sustainably.