Remember back in your high school history class when you learned about Meatless Mondays? Remember learning about how, during World War I and World War II, people were encouraged to limit their meat consumption to support the effort? Today Meatless Monday is still in existence as a public health awareness program that draws attention to the devastating effects of industrial farming.

One of the few arguments that can be made in favor of hydraulic fracturing is the fact that natural gas burns cleaner than other fossil fuels. Because of this, natural gas is being promoted as a “bridge fuel,” a source of energy to be used instead of coal until carbon-free energy sources like wind and solar power are capable of being more widely used.

Having someone find out that you’ve been slacking from your daily shower routine can be one of the most embarrassing things in the world. People may give you weird looks, take a few steps backward from you and maybe even ostracize you completely.

When I was at Wegmans the other day shopping for hair products, I found myself debating whether or not to purchase Pantene’s “Nature Fusion” shampoo, which comes in a plant-based bottle (“up to 59 percent excluding the cap”). Although it’s hard to imagine why someone would have to think twice about partaking in an eco-friendly action as simple as placing a bottle into a shopping cart, I was skeptical about how “green” the bottle actually was.

Some people may associate thrift stores with poverty, cheap clothing or those artsy vintage fashion types. As for me, I love thrift stores because they are one of the most direct forms of recycling in which I can participate.

I'm the kind of person who prefers reading something printed on a piece of paper to reading it on a computer screen.

I would like to bring to your attention that Monday Oct. 24th is Food Day. So what is Food Day, actually? No, it's not a magical day when CAS gives out free food, nor a day when people all over the country hurl their lunches at each other in a massive coast-to-coast food fight – although I do have to admit that that would be pretty fun.

How would you like to be able to light your water on fire? Sounds like some sort of spectacular magic act, doesn’t it? The great Josh Fox, director of the documentary Gasland, will now, for the audience’s enjoyment, perform a daring, mind-boggling trick in which he transforms ordinary water straight out of a kitchen faucet into flames before your very eyes.

It’s the morning after you’ve just pulled an all-nighter writing a paper for your 8 a.m. humanities class and you’re in desperate need of some good strong Starbucks coffee – the college student’s ambrosia.

There are many justifiable motives for adopting the vegetarian lifestyle – whether it be for health, ethical or religious reasons – but what finally got me enlisting in the ranks of the plant-eaters was a knowledge of the environmental impacts of meat production.