Green News

Maine Gov. Paul LePage's comments about bisphenol A prompted a response from Environmental Studies Professor Gail Carlson, who explains the science on the Environmental Health Strategy Center's blog.

What do you do with an English major? Marshall Dostal '93 ended up in Entrepreneur magazine for starting a company that turns a byproduct of biodiesel production into high-end soaps.

A Bigelow Lab cruise studying the effects of climate change on phytoplankton in the South Atlantic was featured on Maine Public Radio. Coverage includes link to blog by Professor Whitney King (chemistry) and Annie Warner '11.

Blair Braverman '11, who's completing a senior thesis on environmental writing, won the Joseph Conrad essay contest sponsored by the Williams College-Mystic Seaport marine studies program. Her essay: "Useless Bay."

On track to be Maine's commissioner of marine resources, Norm Olsen '73 brings strong diplomacy skills from a State Department career and credibility on the docks as a fourth-generation fisherman, the Press Herald reports.

Nick Friedman and Brandon Pollock, both Class of 2010, developed their bottleless water cooler company while students at Colby. Now Blue Reserve provides filtered water to customers from Maine to Massachusetts. "We wanted to try to fix something, and we saw bottled water as the problem," said Pollock. Watch WMTW-TV8 clip;  read more in Colby magazine.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded Colby a $600,000 grant to support environmental studies, President William D. Adams announced Jan 4. The grant will provide funds for further development of a marine conservation track within Colby's signature Environmental Studies Program.

Colby has begun construction on a new biomass plant that will replace about 1 million gallons of heating fuel with about 22 thousand tons of locally sourced wood chips and forest waste annually. The initiative takes the College much closer to its goal of carbon neutrality by 2015.

The Atlas of Maine, developed by environmental studies classes studying GIS and remote sensing, has been featured by developers of Digital Commons as an example of what their product can do.

Economics and mathematics double major Tendai Mutunhire '13, an intern at The Nature Conservancy in Maine, discusses his work on the Penobscot River restoration project in a TNC video.