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James Webb Space Telescope Releases Its First Images

July 14, 2022 Wally Boston

By now, it’s likely that hundreds of millions of people around the globe have seen the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope. The pictures are impressive, yet the science behind the technology as well as the science involving the observations is incredible.

The first picture that NASA showed the world at large is titled Webb’s First Deep Field.

American College & University Presidents' Climate Commitment

Creating a Better Environment: The ACUPCC 14 Years Later

April 21, 2021 Wally Boston

I heard about the American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC) shortly after it was initiated. The concept was that many politicians, business leaders, and citizens in the United States continued to ignore the signs of global warming. A group of college presidents signed a commitment to develop a plan for their institutions to achieve carbon neutrality as soon as possible by creating a workable plan, completing a comprehensive inventory of all greenhouse gas emissions, initiating tangible actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and making all plans publicly available.

Sustainability in Higher Education: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going

April 18, 2012 Wally Boston

In celebration of Earth Day, and in the spirit of giving more than just one day to the consideration of our planet and our impact on it, this is the first in a series of articles which I’ll post this week and into next related to sustainability in higher education.

In September 1962 Rachel Carson published her groundbreaking work, Silent Spring, documenting the negative impact of pesticides on the environment, specifically on birds.