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Letter from Rachel Colby to John Muir, undated
No full textDear Mr. Muir, Please do not feel distressed over your informal departure on Sunday. I have seen Mr. Colby do just such things and know the reasons, either mental fatigue, or concentration in the subject uppermost in his mind. I truly enjoyed the trip to Del Monte, and my hope that Marian and I were not so bothersome as “John Burroughs’s Ladies.” If Mil [?] can get […] we are hoping soon to visit you on a Sunday-to go up I Mother’s [?] automobile. Yours most cordially, Rachel […] Colby […] […] May 27t
Letter from Rachel Colby to John Muir, undated
No full textDear Mr. Muir, Please do not feel distressed over your informal departure on Sunday. I have seen Mr. Colby do just such things and know the reasons, either mental fatigue, or concentration in the subject uppermost in his mind. I truly enjoyed the trip to Del Monte, and my hope that Marian and I were not so bothersome as “John Burroughs’s Ladies.” If Mil [?] can get […] we are hoping soon to visit you on a Sunday-to go up I Mother’s [?] automobile. Yours most cordially, Rachel […] Colby […] […] May 27t
Colby News
No full textPulver Opens
Reorientation
Celebrating a Century of Rachel Carson
An Oak From Colombia
Lovejoy Goes to Times Correspondent
Wit & Wisdom
Colby Raises Campaign Goal
Colby Grad is Ambassador
Goodwin Remembers Lady Bird
Colby Jack Coombs Enshrined
Tara Allain, Miss Maine
Faculty Farewells
First Time Through
Hallway Hubbub
Point of View: Oil and Religion: Threats to a New Democracy, by Caroline Riss \u270
Letter from Rachel Colby to John Muir, undated
No full textDear Mr. Muir […] changed the date of our evening from Dec 31 to Wednesday, Dec 29th. I hope you can come on the 29th just the same. Cordially, R V Colby […] […] Monda
Letter from Rachel Colby to John Muir, undated
No full textDear Mr. Muir […] changed the date of our evening from Dec 31 to Wednesday, Dec 29th. I hope you can come on the 29th just the same. Cordially, R V Colby […] […] Monda
Gay and Lesbian Life at Colby 1969-1974
No full textThe history of a gay and lesbian student community at Colby seems to point to the difficulty of visibility. For students who were able to find others like themselves, their group of lesbian and gay friends had to remain underground. For students who were grappling with their newly found, socially stigmatized sexuality, the experience was isolating if they did not know where to find others like themselves. This paper seeks to address the social forces that kept sexually variant students from expressing their sexual identities openly on campus. Part of this difficulty is attributable to the compulsory heterosexuality assumed by general American society at the time, manifested in the silence or outright hostility directed against homosexuals. Naturally, Colby students replicated this assumption. Some of the students we interviewed seemed to internalize compulsory heterosexuality, while it was forced upon others. Religion and psychology were two methods of enforcing heterosexuality that were relevant to the people we interviewed. Another significant obstacle to visibility was Colby\u27s location and the nature of Colby\u27s student body. Waterville, unlike more urban cities, did not have a history of gay life, and thus an established gay community or gay identity into which one could be socialized. Colby, as a small, homogeneous and isolated space, posed difficulties in establishing a gay community as the population to draw from was small and regulated
2018 Senior Exhibition Catalog
No full textThis catalog was published on the occasion of the Art Department’s 2018 Senior Exhibition, May 10-27, at the Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine.
The Art Department is proud of the unique partnership this catalog represents. Seniors participating in the 2017-18 studio capstone seminar, coordinated by Professor Bradley Borthwick, crafted artist statements illustrated by their artworks. Art history students taught by Professor Daniel Harkett interviewed the artists about their studio practices and responded to their work in creative texts. Although only in its second year, it is hard to imagine our curriculum without this collaboration, as it enriches the two halves of the Art Department, disseminates our students’ work to a broader audience, and preserves it long after the Senior Exhibition closes at the Colby College Museum of Art.
AR 401- 402 / STUDIO CAPSTONE STUDENTS Rachel Bird / Printmaking Daphne Maritssa Hernandez / Painting Scarlet Holvenstot / Photography Kaci Kus / Painting Nathan Lee / Painting Jake Lester / Photography Amelia Patsalos-Fox / Photography Annie Pease / Sculpture Cameron Price / Photography Adela Ramovic / Painting Molly Ann Wu / Photography Yanlin Zhao / Painting
AR 356 / WRITING ART CRITICISM STUDENTS Abigael Conran Sara Friedland Nora Hill Austin Lee Emily Martin Nina Oleynik Amelia Patsalos-Fox Katie Ryanhttps://digitalcommons.colby.edu/senior_exhibition/1001/thumbnail.jp
Biomass Energy at Colby College
No full textIn light of growing concern regarding the effects of global climate change, Colby College signed the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC) in 2008. Through this pledge, Colby has committed to reducing carbon emissions in its Climate Action Plan (IPCC 2007; CCAP 2010). The College seeks to be carbon neutral by 2015 (CCAP 2010). This will be accomplished through a variety of mechanisms, one of which includes the construction of a biomass facility to replace most of the oil currently used for heating (CCAP 2010).
Anthropogenic global climate change has been documented by many scientists, but was widely publicized in the late 1980’s by James Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Hansen testified in front of Congress in 1988, stating that the greenhouse effect has been observed in many cases and predicting a significant temperature increase in the next few centuries (Shabecoff 1988). His testimony was reinforced by the report he and his colleagues published that year (Hansen et al. 1988). Two years later, in 1990, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its first report on climate change (IPCC 1990). The IPCC has published three updates since the 1990 report, the most recent of which was released in 2007 (IPCC 2007). The numerous scientists that take part in these assessments have concluded that the global warming trend is caused by greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which are gases in Earth’s atmosphere that trap heat. These gases are emitted from many sources including deforestation, transportation and energy production.
In 2008, by far the largest contributor to GHGs emitted in the United States was fossil fuel combustion. The energy sector in the US relies heavily on fossil fuels; over 88% of total energy consumption comes from oil, coal or natural gas (EIA 2008). Given fossil fuels’ non-renewable nature, they are inherently unsustainable sources of energy.
Biomass energy has emerged as an alternative to fossil fuels. It is a renewable fuel source that can be used for the production of both electricity and thermal energy. Biomass facilities in the US run on a variety of fuel sources, including corn stalks, switchgrass, plantation-grown willow branches, construction debris, urban waste wood, and forest-harvested waste wood (Perlack et al. 2005). In the context of Maine and this thesis, I use the “operative definition” of forest biomass, which refers to fuel comprised of logging residues, previously un-merchantable stems, and other such woody material harvested directly from the forest for the purpose of energy production (Benjamin 2009).
In the state of Maine, forest resources are plentiful; nearly 90% of Maine is forested (Smith et al. 2009). Because of this fact, the logging industry is an important sector of the economy, with forest-related resources contributing $1.98 billion to annual state income in 2008 (BEA 2008). Given the extent of forest resources available in Maine, this thesis focuses on biomass projects that utilize only forest waste wood, representing the dominant trend in the state.
Biomass is a considerable part of Maine’s energy portfolio, comprising 35% of total energy produced, and in the near future is expected to provide a consistent source of renewable thermal energy (EIA 2010). There is debate in the literature over the relative advantages and disadvantages of biomass energy. In this thesis, I introduce the topic of biomass energy, outline the related policy, explore the debates within the scientific community regarding the carbon neutrality of biomass, analyze the differences between forest certification mechanisms, explain Colby College’s biomass facility as a case study, discuss Colby’s current plan and possible options, and then analyze the direction of Colby’s biomass facility into the future, including a matrix analysis of the different sourcing options and conclusions on the best options
Rachel Damon grew up on Chebeague Island. She attended Colby College in Watervi
No full textRachel Damon grew up on Chebeague Island. She attended Colby College in Waterville, where she collaborated on a film about lobstering called The Thrill of the Hand that was shown at the Maine International Film Festival last year. Through that project, she discovered a greater appreciation of her community network, and went on to complete another person\u27s unfinished film on Maine boatyards--a volatile issue on Chebeague, where a longstanding boatyard was sold. Damon balances her loyalty to the community with her documentary impulse
Rachel Carson
No full textThis presentation will focus on the life of Rachel Carson, a leader in environmental science in the 1960s. Her life was full of successes and these will be discussed in full alongside her personal life and motivation behind her work
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