tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35546240.post7628068425740891063..comments2023-08-20T02:55:42.721-05:00Comments on Welcome to the Rachel Carson Centennial Blog: Comments by Moderator Jim LynchNCTC Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16160333822375645632noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35546240.post-64484749245946881402007-11-29T23:13:00.000-05:002007-11-29T23:13:00.000-05:00Like the three previous bloggers, I too am part of...Like the three previous bloggers, I too am part of the Honors class from Shippensburg University. I have always thought of myself as environmental-conscious. I grew up a Girl Scout and so I was always recycling, reducing energy and water usage, and trying to get others to do the same. It's not until this college class that I fully understand how big of an impact just one person can have. I had Diffident Girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07473976962847115950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35546240.post-44797624308436251102007-11-28T22:06:00.000-05:002007-11-28T22:06:00.000-05:00As part of the Shippensburg class project of propo...As part of the Shippensburg class project of proposing an Honors Green Living Learning Center, I had the chance to research the benefits of a building being green and LEED certified. I expected to find many environmental benefits, but I was surprised to find so many benefits for the residents of those Green buildings. For me, reading Rachel Carson's book and working on this project has really Jung07https://www.blogger.com/profile/01552540840213429573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35546240.post-64130789156593728482007-11-27T13:22:00.000-05:002007-11-27T13:22:00.000-05:00Rachel Carson is inspiring in her work, particular...Rachel Carson is inspiring in her work, particularly her encouragement of activism. As Amy mentioned, Shippensburg's class is now taking what we learned about Rachel and applying it to our campus community. We have been attending meeting after meeting the past few months to encourage the university to build a green honors living-learning center that would promote guidelines for green living. Jesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01452460781786113498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35546240.post-41345005647670838332007-11-14T12:47:00.000-05:002007-11-14T12:47:00.000-05:00One part of Shippensburg's class deals with design...One part of Shippensburg's class deals with designing a living-learning center for the Honors Program. Our campus will be undergoing a great deal of change in the next few years. During this time, all of the current residence halls will be demolished and new ones erected. It is the goal of our group to secure space in one of these residence halls specifcally for Honors living-learning space. Amy Harmonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14296651206805317612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35546240.post-38582362619120349992007-10-12T15:15:00.000-05:002007-10-12T15:15:00.000-05:00Reading the chapter entitled The Birth of an Islan...Reading the chapter entitled The Birth of an Island gives an appreciation for unique, fragil habitats, as well as for unique, fragil flora and fauna. I had not really thought of one of the less fragil life forms -- the rat -- as being so closely associated with man, and as being so destructive to island habitat.<BR/><BR/>While considering Jim's helpful commments about Rachel Carson thinking big,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35546240.post-9996656174807369582007-10-11T11:12:00.000-05:002007-10-11T11:12:00.000-05:00In a geology class a long, long time ago, I rememb...In a geology class a long, long time ago, I remember a discussion about something called a Sloss Sequence. These are great thickness of sedimentary rocks that were deposited on top of what is now land. These rock sequences are distributed pretty much from coast to coast and in many cases are full of ancient marine organisms. Each sequence, however is demarcated by erosional surfaces that show Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35546240.post-14657218382633570042007-10-10T20:07:00.000-05:002007-10-10T20:07:00.000-05:00Congratulations to the originators and participant...Congratulations to the originators and participants in the Shippensburg service learning project on the Chesapeake Bay. Rachel Carson would be proud that her books are inspiring such tangible efforts decades after publication. <BR/><BR/>Jim Lynch asks how her work inspires us to bigger things today. Carson's books, and this blog, remind me of the enduring power of printed words and how their Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com