Tag: Student
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Nitrate Monologues: Stories From Water and Farm Frontlines in Iowa
Iowa is ground zero of the corn-belt. Corn has become the sole embodiment of many, if not most Iowan …
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Water Is Wide: Women, Climate Change and the Iowa River
Do we think about the role of women when we think about our natural resources, our land, our water?…
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F&M College’s Composting Adds to Campus Sustainability
Most interesting on my tour of Terra-Gro wasn’t the compost or the anaerobic digestor that powers the whole dairy farm …
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Celebrating the Power of One in Fight Against Climate Change
Suleiman Khan is a freshman student at Montgomery College Rockville. He is an international student from Saudi Arabia who is studying medicine. He aspires to be a doctor, more specifically a general surgeon who can help people in third world countries. He is planning to attend University of Maryland within the next year to continue his bachelors degree.…
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An Island Divided: What We Must Learn From the Tragedy of Hispaniola
My last image of Haiti: a faded guard tower standing amidst a dry and desolate landscape, blocking the way to green mountains beyond. [caption id="attachment_330592" align="alignnone" width="500"] Haitian border tower.[/caption] Traveling over roads that were nothing more than rutted ditches and dried creek beds, we were heading for the Haitian border. Our plans to fly…