Scuppernong talk brings community together
Abigail AbantoHollans, Features Editor
March 29, 2019
On Wednesday, March 27 at 7:00 p.m., Scuppernong Books hosted a Green Drinks discussion about the Green New Deal. This discussion brough students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and Guilford College to speak about various sustainability efforts that they have been inv...
Guilford announces end of Theme House Program on campus
Jenni Camhi, Copy Editor
November 30, 2018
Earlier this month, Guilford announced the discontinuance of the campus' Theme House Program starting in Fall 2019. These residential areas in the community will no longer be housing students after the 2018 to 2019 academic year, and those who are living in them now will be relocated to a different sort...
Guilford College earns high green rating
Navya Belavadi, Staff Writer
November 16, 2018
In The Princeton Review’s 2018 “Guide to 399 Green Colleges,” Guilford was named one of the most environmentally responsible colleges with a score of 88 on a scale of 60 to 99. The schools chosen for the 2018 edition of the guide were based on data from hundreds of four-year colleges and each school’s...
Elon Musk plots underground tunnels
Ethan Santana, Staff Writer
November 2, 2018
In his steady effort to revolutionize transportation and make it more eco-friendly, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, has proposed and developed a series of underground transport tunnels as a more time and resource-efficient mode of public transportation. On Oct. 21, Musk said in a series...
California Senate Bill 100 to reduce emissions
Brendan Shoemaker, Staff Writer
September 21, 2018
California Gov. Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 100, on Sept. 10th to remove carbon emissions from the state’s electric grid by the year 2045. Along with the bill, Brown signed an executive order designed to completely eliminate carbon emissions from the state in the same time frame. Greenhouse gas...
Guilford should say goodbye to plastic straws
Hannah Shoemaker, News Editor
March 16, 2018
Let me set the scene for you. You’re at a restaurant. Your server brings you a glass of ice water and sets a straw on the table. You nod gratefully, unwrap the straw and use it to sip your drink. This action may seem insignificant and commonplace, but according to the National Parks Service, Americans...
EU sets recycling goal for 2030
Laura Hay, Staff Writer
February 9, 2018
The European Union is prioritizing international sustainability by pledging to make all plastic packaging in Europe recyclable and reusable by 2030. Residents of Europe produce 25 million tons of plastic yearly, but less than 30 percent is recyclable. “If we don’t do anything about this, 50...
Sustainable Food Systems faculty presents curriculum
Laura Hay, Staff Writers
November 17, 2017
On Monday, Nov. 6, the Office of Student Leadership and Engagement and the Honors Program hosted a dinner and discussion about Guilford’s sustainable food systems program within the environmental studies department. This included the courses Guilford offers and the professors who teach them. Several...
Organizations abroad and at home act to save environment
Maksym Kosachevskyy, Staff Writer
September 18, 2015
“The environmental crisis is extremely severe, and the effects could be ominous, threatening decent human survival, in the not very distant future,” said Noam Chomsky, an organizer of the call-to-action movement, in an email interview with The Guilfordian. On Nov. 30, the 2015 United Nations Climate ...
