Web Surfing, Searching Can Be Green
By Anne Dreyfuss, The BreezeFebruary 16, 2009
A Jan. 11 article published in the Times of London about Google’s energy consumption has created quite a stir in the blogosphere. The Times, reporting on a Harvard researcher’s study of the environmental impact of computing claimed that, “performing two Google searches from a desktop computer can generate about the same amount of carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle for a cup of tea.” According to the Times’ article, a typical search generates about 7g of CO2, while boiling a kettle generates... Read more »
Home is Where Your Teepee Stands
By Anne Dreyfuss, The BreezeJanuary 29, 2009
Student experiments with alternate housing in effort to be green HARRISONBURG, Va.— For eight months, JMU student Aaron Childs woke up to the morning sun filtering through the canvas of his teepee. “I’d make a pot of coffee, go sit outside and watch the sun rise,’’ Childs said. “Everything would just be glowing…and at night, when you had the fire going, [the teepee] would shine like a Chinese lantern.” Childs is studying psychology at JMU. His goal is to be a wilderness therapist.... Read more »
A Green Thanksgiving
By Anne Dreyfuss, The BreezeNovember 20, 2008
For many college students, Thanksgiving Break is a chance to take refuge from the end-of-semester stresses in a warm, familiar blanket — mom’s home cooking and maybe flag football with friends. Of course, that’s not all Thanksgiving is about. There’s also the “thanks” part. For the Pilgrims newly arrived in Massachusetts, Thanksgiving was about giving thanks for surviving and beginning to prosper. They were celebrating the bounty of the earth — their environment. Times have changed,... Read more »
Go Take A Hike
By Anne Dreyfuss, The BreezeOctober 27, 2008
Everywhere I look I see advertisements for companies that are “going green.” I can’t go a day without hearing the words “stewardship” or “sustainability.” From a quick glance at our generation, it looks like we are the most environmentally aware bunch since the Neanderthals. But in treating “the environment” as an external resource that we must protect, we lose sight of what we are protecting and why it is so important to us. Have we plastic-wrapped nature and put it in a dead-bolt... Read more »
No Drive Day Should Live On
By Anne Dreyfuss, The BreezeOctober 13, 2008
I love JMU in the fall. Football games, fiery sunsets over the Shenandoah Valley, and the first golden leaves falling from the trees make our campus feel the way college is supposed to feel. But my favorite part of JMU in the fall is the overwhelming amount of bicycles throughout campus. They overflow the bike racks outside the library and ISAT. They line the fences at the entryways to buildings. They’re locked to tree trunks, lampposts and stair railings. They’re everywhere. And why not? The... Read more »
GREEN, PURPLE & GOLD: A Mouse in The House
By Anne Dreyfuss, The BreezeSeptember 18, 2008
An everyday situation sheds some light on the practical limits of being eco-friendly After a summer living in caravans and yurts on organic vegetable and cactus farms in Spain, I was looking forward to returning to Harrisonburg and settling in to a place I could call my own. I arrived a few days before school started to clean my room in my off-campus house. As I crouched on my hands and knees, scrubbing layers of grit off the hardwood floor, I heard a scratching noise. The closer I listened, the... Read more »
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