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Making
Change Through the Environment
By
Rachel Moulton ’97
EFP photos
by Twyla Clark ’04 and Anna Johanson ’00
A parade at Norco, LA. |
Students at Antioch want
to make change. It is what brings them to campus, and it is what
keeps them engaged while they’re at Antioch. Nowhere is this desire
more apparent than in concern for the environment. New steps to
inte- grate knowledge gained in the classroom with campus practices
are beginning to make Antioch College a more sustainable campus.
On a campus subject to an ever-changing student body due to Cooperative
Education (co-ops) and terms spent studying abroad, stability and
continuity become necessities. Consequently, despite a
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deep-rooted concern for
environmental issues, Antioch hasn’t always been able to practice
what we preach. All that is about to change. Now discussions housed
within classroom walls have found their way into conference rooms
and organized groups focused on making sure the curriculum coincides
with the college’s environmental practices. With the creation of
a brand new administrative position focused on environmental practices,
Budget and Environmental Projects Manager; the Green Council (GreenCil);
student and faculty plans for ecological campus renovations; eight
new curricular foci in Environmental Studies; and a long legacy
of experiential and interdisci- plinary educa- tion, there is no
better place to be studying the environment. click
here for more
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After
50 Years, Missouri Forest Has Grown into a Model of Timber Management
By William
Allen
Reprinted
with permission of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, copyright 2001
SALEM, MO. – Leo
Drey ’39, the man behind the forest and the state’s largest private
landowner, is credited with proving that harvesting timber through
individual-tree selection works to preserve the woodlands. As woodpeckers
and nuthatches flitted overhead, Leo Drey stepped softly through his
Pioneer Forest in the Ozarks and took satisfaction in the changes
he’s fostered in the woods over half a century. Since he bought the
first piece of the 160,000-acre forest in 1951, it has grown strong
and full, even while he made money from its timber. “We’ve demonstrated
that you can cut trees in such a way that the forest is always here,”
Drey said last week, barely audible above the steady patter of raindrops
on leaves. “It’s a way that is not only economically beneficial but
the forest remains aesthetically pleasing, and people can still use
it for hiking, camping and other recreation.” Drey, 84, of University
City, is widely viewed as a quiet pioneer – and by some as a living
legend – for what he and his colleagues have accomplished in Pioneer
Forest. click here for more
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