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Craving something sweet this month? Sweetgreen’s Sweetlife Festival will satisfy that hunger.
AU currently ranks first in RecycleMania’s waste reduction competition, but it’s not over yet.
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Ryan Flores and Ganbayar Sanjaa each recorded sixth-place finishes for the AU wrestling team at the 2012 NCAA Wrestling Championships in St. Louis March 15-17.
AU’s chapter of STAND protested at the Syrian Embassy March 4 over the country’s ongoing human rights abuses. STAND is a nationwide, student-run organization dedicated to fighting genocide and mass atrocities.
Maybe Shawn Streiff is at fault. Maybe the truck that crashed into him tried everything possible to avoid him. Maybe the driver didn’t see him at all. Maybe Streiff was cycling recklessly and is responsible for the accident.
On the walk north on Massachusetts Avenue toward campus, the sidewalk, grass and bushes are littered with cigarette butts, empty cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon and torn plastic bags.
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According to sources within Student Government, SG and AU administrators are seriously considering a campus-wide smoking ban.
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The National Day of Education is coming up this Thursday, March 1. Students from all across the country will converge in their respective cities and towns to participate in a day of direct actions targeted toward the severely broken state of our current education system.
What do a rabbi, a GE official and an oil independence specialist have in common? They all presented at a conference for AU’s Center for Israeli Studies and Kogod School of Business Feb. 7 in the School of International Service building. The conference, “Greener, Cleaner, Better: Israeli Innovation in Greentech,” presented advancements in renewable energy, electric cars and the global impact of green technology. It featured three separate panel presentations. Michael Granoff, the oil independency policy head for Israeli company Better Place, gave a keynote address on electric cars. Granoff explored why electric cars have not caught on in the United States, while they are a major innovation in Israel. “U.S. politicians will lump all energy solutions into one energy conflation, and then say there is no silver bullet to the situation,” Granoff said. However, Granoff said he believes companies like Better Place are providing energy solutions. Better Place, an electric car company that is looking to accelerate the transition to sustainable transportation, sees the future of cars and the planet directly linked to transitioning from fossil fuels to electricity, Granoff said. The average American household spent $4,000 on gasoline in 2010, approximately $2,000 more than a decade ago, Granoff said. Better Place’s electric cars run on 100-mile rechargeable batteries that can be exchanged at “battery switch stations” that are robotically run, Granoff said. In Israel, a 100-mile battery allows consumers to drive a sizable distance and has prompted a high demand for the cars. However, the same cannot be said for the United States, Granoff said. Better Place builds their system similar to a cell phone network system: •Build up a network of charging stations in urbanized areas, •Focus on the main arteries to-and-from the cities and •Reach the surrounding regions. Better Place looks to make electrification both practical with its battery switch stations and affordable with monthly pay plans that are set at a fixed price until 2016. “Transportation is indispensable, but cost has not always been predictable,” Granoff said. “This makes it predictable.” Panel members at the conference covered a wide gamut of other green technologies including solar and water. Joshua Bar Lev, co-founder of the solar and thermal energy company Brightscource, spoke about the potential of power plants that utilize natural reusable resources such as the sun. “Combine geography and policy to get your projects underway in a way that makes sense and is marketable in that area,” said Bar Lev, referencing solar fields in the southwestern deserts in the United States that Brightscource is looking to install. Eilon Adar, director of the Zuckerberg Institute of Water Research, presentation’s theme was that academia is not implementing enough of its research in the field of green technology. Less than 4 percent of academic ventures reach the consumer, and, more often than not, ideas get published in journals and then die on shelves, Adar said. However, the final panel, Rabbi Fred Sherlinder-Dobb, Eco-Sense’s past president Scott Berman and AU alumna Allison Gold, tried to end on a more positive note. “Kermit the Frog said it best: ‘It’s hard to be green,’” Sherlinder-Dobb said.
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The Environmental Protection Agency’s Green Power Partnership ranked AU No. 12 for clean energy usage among colleges and universities in the United States.
One ballot is certain in the 2012 election: Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus will not be voting for President Barack Obama.
Imagine an AU without trashcans.
I recently discovered that I have an unhealthy, love/hate relationship with the show “The Best Thing I Ever Ate.”
AU will transition to a paperless payment system for all employees in February, in its continued effort to become a more environmentally conscious and sustainable campus in February.
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