Stories about "Environment and Sustainability"
Traditional garments, elegant gowns, and out-of-this-world outfits: Bates has a passion for Trashion
Friday, November 22, 2024 12:36 pm
At the Bates Trashion Show, one person’s trash is not just another’s treasure, but perhaps even another’s trend.
Bates biology professor and three young graduates publish ‘worrisome’ research findings of a common industrial chemical’s harmful effects
Tuesday, August 13, 2024 8:22 am
New research from Bates reveals that daily exposure to triphenyl phosphate, a chemical used in many fire retardants as well as nail polish, harms developing zebrafish and, perhaps, humans.
Beegone! From discovery to relocation, Hathorn Hall’s honeybee hive had Bates buzzing
Wednesday, July 31, 2024 1:46 pm
Historic Hathorn Hall is home to faculty offices in English, neuroscience, and mathematics, plus several administrative offices and classrooms. And until last week, it was also the residence of around 50,000 honeybees.
Basking turtles, annoyed birds, 16 animals you might meet at Lake Andrews
Thursday, June 6, 2024 12:57 pm
Whether you’re an alum here for Reunion weekend, or a daily Puddle walker, here are 15 animals we’ve seen at Lake Andrews recently and over the years — and that you might see when you swing by the popular Bates pond.
A welcoming bus stop and bird-safe windows are among 2024 Green Grant initiatives
Friday, May 31, 2024 1:18 pm
This spring, three of four $2,000 Green Innovation Grants — totalling $8,000 — helped fund or start three new sustainability initiatives at Bates: a bus stop, bird-safe window treatment and recycling signs for residence-hall rooms.
Bates professor Sonja Pieck authors award-winning book about German conservation, memory, and wounded land
Friday, April 19, 2024 4:30 pm
Sonja Pieck’s book "Mnemonic Ecologies," about the once-militarized inner German border becoming a Green Belt, tells a story of how "something healing could come out of the pain."
Picture Story: Bates MLK Day is rich with song, poetry, discussion, and, most of all, food
Friday, January 19, 2024 2:54 pm
Enjoy this immersive photo and video presentation of the 2024 Bates MLK Day celebration, full of presentations, discussions, and workshops, all on the topic of food justice in America.
13 cooking tips from James Beard Award–winning chef and author Bryant Terry
Friday, January 19, 2024 12:33 pm
During this year's MLK Day keynote, Terry prepared a dish of tofu curry with mustard greens, along the way offering a baker's dozen of cooking tips and insights.
Bates MLK Day keynote: Food justice is ‘one of the most important movements of the 21st century’
Friday, January 19, 2024 8:37 am
MLK Day keynote Bryant Terry, an artist, author, chef, and activist, says Martin Luther King Jr's fight against food apartheid is still relevant today.
Slideshow: Plastic-bag swan, name-tag kilt, and cardboard giant on stilts elevate the Trashion Show
Thursday, November 16, 2023 5:00 am
See Bates students on the Trashion runway in fashions crafted from cardboard boxes, name tags, plastic bags, transit cards, zero-balance gift cards, face masks, newspapers, paper banners, bubble wrap, sticky notes, and paperback book pages.