Our field trip to Hobson Memorial Forest on Thursday offered a chance to spend part of the morning in nature’s classroom. Prior to the field trip, I didn’t know that BSU owned a piece of the forest, so it goes without saying that I had never been there. But any day in the woods is a good day. [...]
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Hobson Forest
Posted in It's Homework, People and the Environment, tagged Bemidji State University, Hobson Memorial Forest on June 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Campus Environmental Tour
Posted in It's Homework, People and the Environment, tagged BSU, Butterfly Garden, Green Power Partner, Habitat Restoration, Lakescaping, Native Plants, Natural Capital, Presidents Climate Commitment, Rain Garden, Shoreland Restoration, Sustainability, Talloires Declaration, ULSF, Wind Power on June 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On Tuesday we took a little stroll around campus discussing some of the ways Bemidji State University demonstrates its responsibility as an institution for higher education by creating an educational environment that pledges to work towards sustainability. As a public educational institution producing tomorrow’s leaders, the university needs to set an example for the generations of [...]
Thoughts on “How Much is Clean Water Worth?”
Posted in It's Homework, People and the Environment, tagged Ecological Economics, Global Ecosystem, Natural Capital, Natural Resources, Stewardship on June 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“How Much is Clean Water Worth?” is a fascinating feature article written by Jim Morrison for the Feb./Mar. 2005 issue of National Wildlife, the magazine of the National Wildlife Federation. There are some staggering, almost unfathomable, numbers in the form of dollar amounts calculated when it comes to the value of our global ecosystem – something that [...]
Thoughts on “How Nature Nurtures”
Posted in It's Homework, People and the Environment, tagged Firearm Safety, Hunter Education, Nature-Deficit Disorder, No Child Left Indoors, Outdoors Heritage on June 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The online article “How Nature Nurtures”is a book review by Connie Matthiessen of the book Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv. Matthiessen explains: Louv presents a compelling argument that children, and the rest of us for that matter, require regular contact with nature to maintain physical and [...]
“Environment”
Posted in It's Homework, People and the Environment, tagged Bemidji State University, Camping, Environment, Environmental Impact, fishing, hunting, Liberal Education, Outdoors, People and the Environment, Small Town, Sustaining the Earth on June 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed. – Excerpt from the Seventh State of [...]
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