Trash Talk: The Why and How of Sustainable Waste Disposal

Monday, October 5
4pm, Union 302
Refreshments provided!

Join Professor of Economics Dave Martin, Director of Purchasing Beth Christenbury, and Sustainability Fellow Kealy Devoy for a panel discussion about the ethics of trash. Hear about the social, environmental, and economic impacts of waste disposal, and what Davidson is doing about it.

Co-sponsored by the Vann Center for Ethics and the Office of Sustainability.

For more information, contact Kristina Johnson (krjohnson).

Saturday, September 19, 2009
2-7 PM

Nine farms, all located within 30 miles of Davidson, NC, have graciously agreed to open their barn doors to the public for our first annual farm tour. It’s a self-directed tour, which means you get to choose which farms, and in what order, you wish to visit. Read the rest of this entry »

Wired has a thought-provoking article, one that may help explain more than changes in current consumption patterns. Robert Capps looks at a number of seemingly disparate phenomenon – successful and widely popular products and practices such as netbooks, Flip digital videorecorders, MP3 format, and even the unmanned Predator military aircraft and Kaiser Permanente’s micro-clinics – as markers of a change in the way people think. Low-end products, with results that are “good enough” to be enjoyable, are well-suited to our contemporary culture, a culture that has been greatly structured by technology and socioeconomic and political stress.
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