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An essay by Alison Smith of Portland, the co-chair of Maine Citizens for Clean
No full textAn essay by Alison Smith of Portland, the co-chair of Maine Citizens for Clean Elections, advocating campaign finance reform . Smith discusses Maine\u27s landmark Clean Election Act and describes how it is being enacted by the state
Other Voices piece by Alison Smith, co-chairwoman of Maine Citizens for Clean
No full textOther Voices piece by Alison Smith, co-chairwoman of Maine Citizens for Clean Elections and member of the U.S. League of Women Voters board, on campaign reform and Maine\u27s Clean Election Act
Letter to the editor from Alison P. Smith, of Portland, co-chair of Maine Citize
No full textLetter to the editor from Alison P. Smith, of Portland, co-chair of Maine Citizens for Clean Elections, in response to a July 23 News & Issues article on the Clean Election Act
Something Smells Fishy A Look into the Sustainability of Smith College’s Seafood Consumption
No full textPressure on the world’s oceans for economic gain and consumption has led to a rapid and unceasing decline in marine wildlife. Unsustainable fishing practices continue, as regulation is lax on enforcement around the world. Many species are on the verge of extinction and most fisheries on the brink of collapse, if extinction or collapse has not happened already. Health risks of seafood consumption due to mercury and other contaminants has become a notable reason for ceasing fish consumption. Despite health detriments and environmental degradation, seafood demand is high and increasing as the world population grows. In its increasing commitment to sustainability, Smith College should address its own impact on the world’s oceans, and if continuing to buy seafood, the college should buy the seafood that is recommended as sustainable.
Through email questionnaires to Dining Services, personal interviews with local fish suppliers in Northampton, and surveys to students, the actual sustainability of Smith seafood was assessed, and recommendations made to better our purchasing and consumption behavior. While currently Smith’s ocean impact is drastic, Dining Services is committed to making the best seafood choices possible. Already they are listening to student feedback and removing some of the unsustainable seafood, though it is just the beginning. Students seem interested in being included in the decision-making process regarding the seafood they consume, either by survey or taste-test. With appropriate recommendations of local, sustainable seafood sources, and student input to determine what we, the primary consumers want to eat, Smith’s impact on the world’s oceans can change for the better
Anna Deavere Smith
No full textStolpa, Alison. (2005). Anna Deavere Smith. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/166329
William Pulteney Alison : activist philanthropist and pioneer of social medicine
No full textThe thesis looks in detail at three inter-related aspects of
Alison's life. It examines, firstly, his role in the development
of Edinburgh's rudimentary 'health' network, achieved through the
expansion of the existing medical charity structure and the
introduction of a more interventionist and coordinated approach to
the city's health problems. It traces, secondly, the development
of Alison's social thought - in 1820 he believed that medical and
practical relief for the poor could and should be supplied through
the voluntary charities and only when that proved unsatisfactory
through the poor law, whereas by 1840 he argued that public health
should be the responsibility of government and that the excessive
increase in poverty and disease in Scotland, which he believed had
occurred, was proof that the charitable and legal relief provided
was inadequate. Finally, Alison's influence on the passage of
Scottish poor law and public health legislation in the 1840s and
1850s is examined - the latter involving an assessment of how far
he was responsible for the legislative delay. The poor law debate,
1840-1845, which reveals the forces shaping the reform and the
prevailing attitudes to poverty, highlights the challenge which
Alison's opinions represented and the resulting turmoil in Scottish
social thinking, while his reasons for opposing health legislation,
which established London control are of great importance. They
reveal differences in the rationale behind, and way in which, the
concept of public health was developed in Scotland and England.
Unlike Chadwick and his supporters, Alison emphasised poverty
amelioration and sanitary reform. Part of the explanation for the
differing opinions lay in their respective miasmatic and
contagionist theories for fever generation, but it also reflects,
perhaps more significantly, the impact of European medical police
ideas on Scottish medical opinion - Alison's view of public health
closely resembled that of the French hygienists
Organic Gardening and Possibilities for its Implementation at Smith College: An Exercise on the Sustainable Use of Limited Resources
No full textThe focus of this paper lies in the comparison of conventional agriculture methods versus those of sustainable alternative or organic farming, in terms of their impacts on the environment and the sustainable use of limited resources. By looking at the economic, environmental, and social dimensions of sustainable agriculture in comparison to conventional practices, there is an emphasis on approaches that Smith College students could take to further educate themselves on this topic. Specifically, I have investigated possibilities for the implementation of an organically grown student-run garden at Smith College, and the benefits that it would produce for Smith College from a systems level perspective. This paper encourages Smith College students to become involved in what the Five-College Consortium has to offer in terms of educational opportunities geared towards the merits of sustainable alternatives to mainstream, conventional agricultural. The detrimental consequences of conventional agriculture are pervasive and widespread, and this is important for students to understand. Finally, the author urges for the eventual involvement of Smith College students in an alternative methods, student-run community garden on the Smith College campus or in the nearby vicinity
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