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Dear Future President of Davidson College, Thank you for your commitment to our school. Over the coming year, you will be laying out your positions on major issues relevant to the school’s needs and our collective future. I am writing to argue that one of your top priorities as a president should be the sustainability …
This is a paper written for a public sector economics course at Davidson College taught by Dr. O’Keefe. Written on December 2, 2021. The US is the second-largest emitter of carbon emissions in the world. Businesses are significant contributors to US’s Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions, but they are not currently mandated to report those emissions. …
This is an academic paper for Computational Economics Course at Davidson College with Dr. Shyam Gouri Suresh. Written December 10th 2021. Introduction Climate change is a severe global problem that needs to be addressed immediately. Fashion – especially fast fashion – is a significant contributor to environmental degradation. Research by McKinsey & Co. indicates that …
Reporting is fundamental to maintaining goals — It helps to build clarity around expectations and goals right from the beginning. As the adage goes, what gets measured gets managed, and when done well reporting helps Davidson achieve benchmarks towards clear goals. Davidson College’s Climate goal is carbon neutrality in 2050. Reporting is not the goal. …
This is an academic project for the Computational Economics course at Davidson College with Dr. Professor Gouri-Suresh. This is a group project with Sena Hur, Ian Rolls, and Brooke Whitcomb written on 21st October 2021 Introduction Mycorrhizal fungi are known to sustain all terrestrial ecosystems by transferring vital resources through root networks (Watkinson 2015, Simard …
This is my proposal for research on Food Waste Reduction strategies at Davidson College. My proposal was accepted and implemented in the Spring of 2020. The final research was not completed due to Covid-19. Introduction I want to evaluate the effectiveness of different strategies for food waste (FW) reduction in higher education campuses. I will …
This paper is my final project in my introduction stats class Abstract This study focuses on the relationship between descriptive social norms and pro-environmental behavior. I evaluate visual cues in the form of the fullness of a compost bin as evidence of others recycling behavior. I measured pro-environmental behavior in the form of an individual’s …
Imagine a mountain of trash piling up in a warehouse, a conveyor belt in the ceiling delivering a constant snowfall of discarded materials mostly plastics. Like magic, an endless supply of plastics dropped starting as a small pile growing to an overwhelming mountain only moveable by large trucks. That is the scene you walk into …
When the American people have the awareness of what this [climate change] means for their children, and for their grandchildren, that all of civilization is at risk here, then they will demand that whoever is running for office, whoever is elected to serve, will have to respond to this. — Al Gore, said during a …
