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College of the Atlantic students don't just study the major issues of our day - they also try to do something about them. Action and Reflection, two poles of life for the COA activist.
Action: Carbon Net-Zero
- College of the Atlantic is now carbon neutral. Those emissions we can't reduce or avoid, we have offset. For 2006-2007, COA's offsets are obtained through an investment in Climate Trust's traffic control project in Portland Oregon.
Action: Youth Activism
- COA students have been youth leaders at the last four United Nations Protocol Conferences on Climate Change, leading and uniting the international environmental youth movement.
- From 2005 to 2007, Juan Pablo Hoffmeister '07 served as one of two elected youth delegates from North America to the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP).
- COA students have been very active in SustainUS, among the most influential environmental youth organizations in the United States, organizing conferences and environmental actions.
Reflection: Courses taught at COA
- Environmental Chemistry: Air, Don Cass
- Environmental Law and Policy, Ken Cline
- Global Environmental Politics: Theory and Practice, Doreen Stabinsky
- Kilowatts, Crude Oil, Caribou: Science and Politics of US Energy, Doreen Stabinsky
- Polar Ecology and Exploration, Sean Todd
Action: New Dorms
- Air-tight
- Triple-paned windows
- Renewable heating through wood pellets
- Composting toilets
- Grey water recovery
Action: Historic Preservation
- Creative reconstruction of historic Sea Urchins into new campus center
Reflection
- Land Use Planning, Isabel Mancinelli and Gordon Longsworth
- Historic Landscape Preservation
- Shelter: Humans, Landscape, and the Built Environment, Isabel Mancinelli and Todd Little-Siebold
Action: Union River Watershed Coalition
Action: Plum Creek
Reflection: Courses taught at COA
- Conservation Biology and Policy, Ken Cline, Chris Petersen
- Creation & Management of Protected Areas, Ken Cline
- Environmental Chemistry: Water: Don Cass
- Envisioning the Land: Land Protection Union River Watershed, Ken Cline
- History of the American Conservation Movement, Ken Cline
- Human Ecology of the Union River Watershed, Ken Cline
- Hydropolitics in a Thirsty World, Ken Cline
- International Wildlife Policy and Protected Areas, Ken Cline
- River Conservation / River Ecology, Ken Cline and Helen Hess
- Marine Policy, Ken Cline and Chris Petersen
- John Anderson - Conservation of Marine Species
Action: Beech Hill Farm
Action: Food Service
Reflection: Courses taught at COA
- Agriculture and Biotechnology, Doreen Stabinsky
- Agroecology, Suzanne Morse
- Agroecology of the Yucatan, Suzanne Morse
- Contemporary Culture of Maine Organic Farmers Elmer Beal
- Corn and Coffee, Todd Little-Siebold
- Fisheries and their Management, Sean Todd
- Food and Culture, Suzanne Morse
- Food Systems, Suzanne Morse
- Getting our Food, From Farm to Fork, Suzanne Morse
- Marketing Artisanal Food: Research Seminar/Cultural Context Elmer Beal
- Salmon: History and Policy of North Atlantic Fisheries, Todd Little-Siebold and Ken Cline
Action: Youth Activism
- In 2007, Elsie Flemings '07 served on the official United States delegation to the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development, the first officially appointed youth representative to a US delegation since 2000.
Action: Big Box
Reflection: Courses taught at COA
- Development and Globalization, Doreen Stabinsky
- Theories of Development, Doreen Stabinsky
- Introduction to Global Politics, Doreen Stabinsky
- Critiquing the Global Economy, Davis F. Taylor
- International Trade and the Global Monetary System Davis F. Taylor
- Rural and Community Sustainability. Davis F. Taylor
- Hydropolitics in a Thirsty World, Ken Cline
Action: Carbon Offset study group
Action: Methane research
Reflection: Courses taught at COA
- A range of business courses taught by Jay McNally
- Business as Unusual: Understanding Soc. Responsible Business, Davis F. Taylor
- Green Technology, Davis F. Taylor
- Economics of Environmental and Social Issues, Davis F. Taylor
- Environmental Issues in Developing Countries, Davis F. Taylor
- Ecological Economics, Davis F. Taylor
- Ecological economics is the economics of sustainability, Davis F. Taylor
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