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Nation’s Top Green College Plans a New Green Building [Green Building Advisor]

The school ranked by The Princeton Review as the number one green college in the U.S. has announced plans for a new campus center that will be built to the German Passivhaus standard, a rigorous, voluntary standard for energy efficiency in a building which reduces its overall ecological footprint.
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Maine Colleges Offer Assistance to Students from Vermont School That’s Closing [Bangor Daily News]

College of the Atlantic welcomes transfer students from Green Mountain College as that school prepares to close after 185 years.
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Green New Deal Sets Stage for 2020 Debate on Costs of Fighting Climate Change [FOX 11 News]

College of the Atlantic global environmental politics professor Doreen Stabinsky says that now is the time for action if we are to keep climate change from becoming an insurmountable problem.
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College of the Atlantic Plans New $13M Academic Building, its First Since the 80s [Bangor Daily News]

Groundbreaking is expected this spring on a new $13 million, energy-efficient building that will house science laboratories, lecture halls, faculty offices, art and design studios, and a teaching greenhouse.

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American Teachers and Students Visit Cixi Farm [TOAF]

College of the Atlantic students in the Human Ecology Abroad in Taiwan course are among the first international visitors to the organic Danshui Cixin Freshwater Farm, where they drink tea, explore bee hives, and share a meal from food harvested on the farm.
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Students Strike for Climate Action

The Downeast Maine Youth Climate Strike gathers students from College of the Atlantic and nearby Mount Desert Island High School to demand immediate and appropriate action against climate change. The midday event mirrors simultaneous strikes and walkouts in more than 2,000 cities worldwide.
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COA Prof Co-Authors Foundational Textbook on Environmental Politics

In “Environmental Politics for a Changing World: Power, Perspectives, and Practice,” COA professor Doreen Stabinsky draws on her science background and decades of international policy work to teach students how to engage in local and global politics.
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Archiving for a More Informed Future

A passion for studying colonialism leads Aadityakrishna Sathish ’19 on an internship to the Royal Asiatic Society in London, England to archive the papers of Edward WIlliam West.

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