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Fall Breaking in the Mountains
This past weekend was fall break and I got to go home to Highlands, North Carolina, a small town lost in the woods in the mountains. It’s been said that sometimes it takes leaving a place to recognize...
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Who I Voted For
Last week I voted early on campus. I was undecided until the day before but in the end it all made sense. Okay, so I want to get a job in renewable energy when I graduate from Duke and, selfishly, I...
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Global Warming is like Baseball
Last week, I heard somebody say, “Hurricane Sandy totally proves that global warming is real!!” I knew it! Pack your bags and Bibles because it’s the end of civilization as we know it:...
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Coffee and the Environment 1: The World Loves the Stuff
Free to Share License at: http://shiftingpixel.com/2007/01/17/more-coffee-seeds/ I like coffee. In fact, I may go as far as to say that I love coffee. Considering that I am in the Environmental School...
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Run for It! (“It” Being the Environment)
I suppose it was only a matter of time, as a Nicholas School student, before I did something sort of crazy in the name of the “environment.” But this past weekend I: Shelled out 40 bucks, woke up early...
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Pigs and Renewable Energy?
Next time you eat barbecue in the state of North Carolina, you’ll be supporting renewable energy. Bet you didn’t know. North Carolina is the number two hog producer in the nation after Iowa. If you...
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California, here we come!
This past weekend, I arrived to California as part of the Energy & Environment field trip. Every year, the department leads a trip to visit renewable energy companies in the Bay Area. This year...
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500 terawatts of instantaneous laser energy is shot at a 1-cm gold cylinder!
The first big common theme we’ve heard across several energy organizations here in Silicon Valley is the way people take an idea from mind to money: going from an experiment in a lab to a profitable...
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What happens when a start-up gets hot?
In the heart of Silicon Valley, land of entrepreneurship, we visited two companies that are in the exciting hot seat of discovering how to successfully grow from their start-up origins into a serious...
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Divest Duke Movement
This past week I attended the kickoff meeting of a new initiative on campus called “Divest Duke.” This start-up movement, composed of mainly undergrads (and a few grads), aims to convince Duke’s...
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