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Written & Spoken Word
Wilma Dykeman's Letters from Northwestern - October 27, 1938
October 27, 1938
"Saturday is the big Homecoming Celebration for the football team, and we play Minnesota, which will probably be the toughest game of the year..."
Written & Spoken Word
Wilma Dykeman's Letters from Northwestern - Introduction
Introduction
"I know that you're being taken good care of now, and if you will enjoy yourself, and not worry about filthy lucre, everything will be hunky dorey."
Environmental Integrity
Nature-Based Solutions for Water - Part Four
Nature-Based Solutions for Droughts and Floods
Water-related risks and disasters...result in immense and growing human and economic losses globally.
Environmental Integrity
Nature-Based Solutions for Water - Part Three
Nature-Based Solutions for Water Pollution
Non-point source (diffuse) pollution from agriculture - notably nutrients - is a major problem worldwide. It is also one of the most amenable to NBS.
Environmental Integrity
Nature-Based Solutions for Water - Part Two
Nature-Based Solutions for Water Scarcity
"An estimated 3.6 billion people (nearly half the global population) live in areas that are potentially water-scarce at least one month per year."
Social Justice
A Day Of Listening
How can active listening be used to heal and improve our community?
Charles Fischer - High School English - Charlottesville VA
Social Justice
Building Community Brick by Brick
Can building a wall create a more inclusive community of both "insiders" and "outsiders?"
Rachel Reaves - Erwin Middle School - Asheville NC
Written & Spoken Word
Changing the World One Poem at a Time!
How can we promote social justice through poetry?
Aeryalle Coward - Pamlico County High School - Bayboro NC
Environmental Integrity
Nature-Based Solutions for Water - Part One
What are Nature-Based Solutions?
Water resource management remains dependent on human-built ('grey') infrastructure. Nature-based solutions support green growth or the green economy.
Environmental Integrity
Partnerships and Cooperation for Water
The United Nations World Water Development Report 2023
The three planetary crises of (1) climate change, (2) nature (biodiversity) loss, and (3) pollution are central to the UN's environmental strategy.
Environmental Integrity
Ozone Layer Recovery is On Track
Ozone Layer Recovery is On Track
"Nearly 99% of banned ozone-depleting substances" have been phased out.
Written & Spoken Word
Moby Dick - Chapter Three
As read by Rick Kisner
"...and an exasperated whale proposing to spring clean over the craft as in the enormous act of impaling himself upon the three mastheads."