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David Still II photoLOU CATALDO DAY – For those who weren't aware that Dec. 22 was Lou Cataldo Day in Barnstable County, don't worry, Lou himself was unaware until just before the County Commissioners presented him with a proclamation to that effect Wednesday morning.
Dec. 22 was Lou Cataldo Day
When Lou Cataldo entered the Dec. 22 meeting of the Barnstable County Commissioners, he thought he and wife, Laura, were joining them for the annual county holiday party. While that would be the case. The commissioners had a little business to attend to before those festivities began.
Dec. 22 was designated by the commissioners as Lou Cataldo Day throughout the county, much to his surprise.
"Well, I'll be damned," Cataldo said, then corrected himself, "Darned."
County Commissioner Bill Doherty corrected him again: "You'll be blessed."
Cataldo has been working on the county's archives, supplying much of the material from his own collection. To recognize that, the commissioners also named the present and future archives facility the Lou Cataldo Barnstable County Archives Facility.
The Proclamation:
WHEREAS, Lou Cataldo has worked tirelessly in preserving the history of Barnstable County through the Barnstable County Tercentenary Committee, The Tales of Cape Cod, the Trayser Museum, the John F. Kennedy Museum and the Barnstable County Archives; and
WHEREAS, he has contributed to the Arts of Barnstable County through his efforts to construct the James Otis statue, Mercy Otis Warren statue, and the John F. Kennedy Memorial; and
WHEREAS, his dedication each year to the Mercy Otis Woman of the Year Committee provides recognition to an outstanding Cape Cod resident for her contributions to the Arts, Education, Business and Patriotism in her Community;
NOW, THEREFORE, We, Mary Pat Flynn, William Doherty and Sheila Lyons, County Commissioners of Barnstable County, do hereby proclaim December 22, 2010, as "LOU CATALDO DAY" in Barnstable County, and do hereby name the present and future Archives facility as the "LOU CATALDO BARNSTABLE COUNTY ARCHIVES FACILITY."
Nickerson to step down as regional clerk
Scott Nickerson told the county commissioners this week that he will no longer serve as their regional clerk, but will stay on as long as necessary to assist with the transition to a new clerk.
Nickerson said that the demands of the position, as well as his demands as the father of three teenagers, is such that he does not feel he can or should continue.
Nickerson has served as the county's elected Clerk of Courts for the past 10 years, and the practice has been for that position to assume the uncompensated role of county clerk, as appointed by the commissioners.
Nickerson said that the dual role poses logistical problems. As Clerk of Courts, he is a state employee, which restricts his activity as county clerk to off hours and weekends.
"I really think that the regional clerk should be someone who works for the county, who can do it on county time," Nickerson said. He added that it's important for citizens to be able to access the services of the clerk during business hours, "which they can't do."
The position gained attention in August when five would-be candidates for assembly of delegates learned that their nomination papers were incomplete after the filing deadline, despite being told everything was in order by the clerk's office.
Nickerson was on vacation at the time, and members of his court staff took in the nomination papers.
It's possible that the position could be rolled into the soon-to-be-filled position of Assembly clerk.
"It really would be a nice fit having both … in one person," Nickerson said.
County Administrator Mark Zielinski supports the idea. He said that county counsel raised questions about possible conflicts of interest with the clerk handling election papers for the Assembly, which would be the clerk's employer. The county charter does indicate that the county and Assembly clerks could be the same person.
Zielinski and the county commissioners thanked Nickerson for serving as clerk for the past decade. Zielinski reiterated that the position is uncompensated.
"He's doing it for public service sake, and I think people should know that," he said.
Nickerson will still be on duty to swear in the new assembly members and Doherty for new terms.
39 apply for Assembly clerk
The selection group to find a new Assembly clerk is reviewing 39 resumes from qualified candidates.
The position has been filled on a temporary basis since the death of longtime clerk Diane Thompson in September.
The list will be culled to a set of finalists to be interviewed.
The selection group expects to present a final candidate to the Assembly shortly into the new year.
Commissioners to put Falmouth DCPC request on hold
The Barnstable County Commissioners assumed the same holding pattern as the Assembly of Delegates on calls for a wind turbine district of critical planning concern (DCPC).
The commissioners received a request from the Falmouth Planning Board to consider nominating the four upper Cape towns as a DCPC to address turbine construction.
Last week, the Assembly learned that the Cape Cod Commission expects to bring another set of regulations for consideration as early as February. Last month, the Assembly rejected the initial regulations to incorporate turbines into the Regional Policy Plan as too lax.
County Administrator Mark Zielinski is expected to prepare a letter to the Falmouth board on this, and also seek comment from the upper Cape boards of selectmen on how they would view such a DCPC.
Registry of Deeds to remain open Dec. 31
While the rest of the Barnstable County Complex will be closed New Year's Eve, the Registry of Deeds will remain open for business.
As the final day of the month and year, Register Jack Meade said it's important to be open and available.
"There's no getting that back," Meade said of a missed end-of-the-year deadline.
He does not expect to be too busy this year, as no significant tax changes are in line for 2011. He said when there are changes in capital gains taxes, there can be rushes to close on properties by the end of the tax year.
The Registry of Deeds will be open regular hours Dec. 31, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. for recording purposes.
Energy-saving updates, for free
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. fought for basic economic rights as well as civil rights, so it's good that Community Action Committee of Cape Cod & Islands, Inc. will join with Barnstable County AmeriCorps on his birthday to provide free energy-saving home "weatherizations."
On Jan. 17, teams will fan out through Barnstable, Dennis and Yarmouth to install window caulking, draft stoppers, water-saving showerheads, and faucet aerators. Seventy households will be assisted; if you'd like yours to be one, call 508-771-1727.
Generating savings
This may shock you, but electric rates are still going down.
Cape Light Compact announced new rates for the first six months of 2011 that the power supply purchaser says represents the "fourth consecutive price reduction … for residential and small commercial customers."
For meter-read dates January through June, residential customers would pay 7.71 cents per kilowatt hour, small commercial accounts 8.02 cents, and large industrial operations (January to April only) 7.94 cents.
Residential and small business customers can secure a full year of service for 8.60 cents per kWh or two years for 8.70 cents/kWh. The Compact's power supplier, ConEdison Solutions, may withdraw that offer at any time.
Cape Codders who want their power a little greener can sign up for Cape Light Compact Green, which taps renewable energy-generating resources. The price is higher, but the full premium is tax-deductible.
Sign-ups are through ConEdison Solutions at 800-381-9192.
Good news for municipalities
The Town of Barnstable will save $200,000 a year in energy costs through a new three-year Cape Light Compact contract with ConEdison Solutions.
Town Manager John Klimm announced the news at last week's council meeting, saluting the town's member of the Compact, chief procurement officer David Anthony, and assistant town attorney Charles McLaughlin for "a piece of good work." Klimm said that he and Yarmouth Town Administrator Bob Lawton had encouraged the Compact to go out to bid early on the current contract for municipalities, which expires in June.
Starting July 2011, towns will pay 7.57 cents per kWh, according to a Compact press statement. That's down from 9.67 for a total savings of $1.8 million per year.
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When customers are unhappy, respond quickly, communicate frequently, and keep calm.
Whatever a business sells or does, it's probably not the only game in town. If customers are unhappy, they can easily take their trade elsewhere—and they very well might.
In one survey by the Better Business Bureau serving Chicago and Northern Illinois, researchers found 30% of unhappy customers will simply not return to the business. Twenty percent would verbally warn others not to patronize the business.
Those are high stakes. With so much on the line, business owners need a solid strategy for dealing with unhappy customers.
For Jon Byrum, president of employee scheduling software company Hello Scheduling, making good means digging deep. When a large customer complained about tweaks made to the software, Byrum invested more than $2,000 in development to undo the problem. "Now while we may lose money on this one specific customer, they've been a huge advocate for us, bringing in much more than $2,000 worth of new business," he says.
Just what does it take to satisfy an unhappy customer?
1. Respond quickly.
"In the ancient fable, it is the slow, steady tortoise who wins the race, but in customer service it is the fast response that wins the hearts. People like to know that someone is paying attention and the faster your response, the stronger the message that you are doing just that. Difficult customers especially are time-sensitive and an immediate response will go far to reduce their angst," says Mike Samson, co-founder of web design firm crowdSPRING.
2. Keep them in the loop.
Don't just fix the problem quietly in the background. "If you keep customers aware of what steps are being taken to rectify issues, they will appreciate it. That doesn't mean just emailing a customer once or twice. It means communicating regularly and personally," offers Lynn Daniel, president of The Daniel Group, a customer service consulting group in Charlotte.
RELATED: Profitable Ways to Follow Up with Customers, Without Annoying Them
3. Listen.
"Do not try to talk over the customer or argue with them. Let the customer have their say, even if you know what they are going to say next, and even if they may not have all the information or be mistaken. As you listen, take the opportunity to build rapport with the customer," said Mike Effle, CEO of ecommerce solutions provider Vendio.
RELATED: Why You Shouldn't Apologize to Customers
4. Keep calm.
"Lower your voice. If the customer gets louder, start speaking more slowly and in a lower tone. Your calm demeanor will reflect on them and will help them to settle down. As you approach the situation with a calm, clear mind, unaffected by the customer's tone or volume, anger will generally dissipate," Effle says.
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5. Collaborate.
Customer dissatisfaction can be especially challenging if you really believe in your work, but at the same time, don't want to make bad blood. "We never want to show a lack of faith or belief in the work we've done for a client. At the same time, we never want to blame the client for an issue they're having with the work," says Nickolas Duarte of video production boutique company Crown Chimp Productions. "So instead of blaming ourselves, the client or the work itself, we try to approach it from a problem-solving point of view. Creative work is all about problem solving. We angle their issue as if it's just part of the process, alleviating anxiety and tension." In short: Instead of us versus them, make this an "all in this together" situation.
Is the customer always right? Well, it doesn't really matter anyway, so long as the customer is happy at the end of the day. All our experts caution against the instinct to win, to defend oneself and one's work. Don't bother. Listen thoughtfully, remedy where possible, and apologize when you're wrong.
A final note: Don't be afraid to cut someone loose. There are customers who will never be happy and you'll spend far too much time and energy on them. When the situation seems hopeless, walk away. Your business will be all the stronger for it.


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Carl E. Landwehr , University of Maryland
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Competition, in the form of survival of the fittest, has been around far longer than humans, but humans are unique in setting up artificial competitions and awarding prizes for success. The Olympic Games is perhaps the oldest competition that continues to this day (albeit with a hiatus of two millennia), though no doubt it wasn't the first. Technological competitions are more recent but not young.
from the editors, survival of the fittest, competition
Carl E. Landwehr, "Revolution through Competition?", IEEE Security & Privacy, vol.5, no. 6, pp. 3-4, November/December 2007, doi:10.1109/MSP.2007.174


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Stopping the outbreak of a disease hinges on a wealth of data such as what makes a suitable host and how a pathogen spreads. But gathering these data can be difficult for diseases in remote areas of the world, or for epidemics involving wild animals. A new study led by Princeton University researchers and published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface explores an approach to studying epidemics for which details are difficult to obtain. The researchers analyzed the 2
It's easy to think of plants as passive features of their environments, doing as the land prescribes, serving as a backdrop to the bustling animal kingdom.
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Princeton researchers join 14 academic institutions and partners to address challenges threatening urban water supplies.
Researchers at Princeton University have for the first time directly calculated the rate at which water crystallizes into ice.
Ramanan Laxminarayan explains why our antibiotics no longer work as well as they used to and discusses what we can do about it.
Phil Hannam, former Princeton Energy and Climate Scholar, writes about China's emergence as a key partner in India's coal power development, and the broad implications for India's climate change strategy.
Feeding the Future and the Future of Food: Panel Discussion and Screening of the Film "Modern Nature"
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Termites can keep desertification at bay by adding nutrients and helping water infiltrate soil, but the vegetation patterns that result can be confusing.
A team of researchers has found that greenhouse gasses a million years ago were only slightly higher than they were between 450,000 and 800,000 years ago.
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Princeton University-led research provides a new weapon in the struggle against the devastating wildlife trade: the very markets where animals are bought and sold.
Researchers at Princeton University have found that the common test of bouncing a household battery to learn if it is dead or not is not actually an effective way to check a battery's charge.
PEI postdoc William Anderegg and colleagues publish new findings about the role of drought in contributing to aspen trees' death.
In an opinion piece in the journal Nature Lars Hedin discusses the need to better understand whether carbon uptake in forests worldwide is slowing.
For the first time, Princeton University researchers and colleagues have conducted a broad assessment of antibiotic consumption in livestock around the world.
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When a 7.9-magnitude earthquake struck central China's Sichuan province in 2008, seismic waves rippled through the region, toppling apartment houses in the city of Chengdu and swaying office buildings 1,000 miles away in Shanghai.
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Scientists say that the catastrophic wildfires in the US West offer a preview of the kind of disasters that human-caused climate change could bring.
Taking their cue from the humble leaf, researchers have used microscopic folds on the surface of photovoltaic material to significantly increase the power output of flexible, low-cost solar cells.
Lin will join the civil and environmental engineering department on July 1, 2012. She earned her Ph.D. from Princeton in 2010 and is now a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was a member of the Princeton and Energy Climate Scholars group from 2008 to 2010.
Ask Andrew Bocarsly about the innovation behind Liquid Light, a New Jersey startup company that turns carbon dioxide into fuels and industrial chemicals.
On June 6th, Bess B. Ward, William J. Sinclair Professor of Geosciences, Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, was presented the 2012 Procter & Gamble Award in Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
Four graduate students have been awarded 2012 PEI-STEP Environmental Policy Fellowships by the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI) and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
David Medvigy has released a study showing that day-to-day weather variations are growing more erratic and more extreme for at least one-third of the global climate.
National Geographic's Emerging Explorers Program recognizes and supports uniquely gifted and inspiring adventurers, scientists and storytellers, who are pushing the boundaries of discovery, adventure and global problem-solving.
Four Princeton University faculty members have been named recipients of the Graduate Mentoring Awards.
Understanding what changed at a million years B.C. could help climate scientists, like Michael Bender, better understand the climate system overall.
Established in 2009, the $25 million endowment fund supports the development of new technologies that have the potential to enable significant scientific and technological advances.
The National Academy of Sciences today announced the election of 84 new members and 21 foreign associates from 15 countries in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
An expansion of hydropower planned for the Mekong River could have a catastrophic impact on the river's fishery and people who depend on it. Photo: P. Deetes/Creative Commons
Bonnie Bassler, the Squibb Professor of Molecular Biology, was inducted into the American Philosophical Society's biological sciences class.
Led by principal investigator Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo, researchers have used microscopic folds on the surface of photovoltaic material to significantly increase the power output of flexible, low-cost solar cells.
Study Led by Christina Paxson Shows Hurricane Katrina Survivors Struggle with Mental Health Years Later
Survivors of Hurricane Katrina have struggled with poor mental health for years after the storm.
Sigman receives the 2012 European Association of Geochemistry (EAG) Science Innovation Award.
Issac Held receives the BBVA Foundation's "Frontiers of Knowledge Award" in the Climate Change Category.
Students in the seminar "Global Environmental Change: Science, Technology and Policy" are examining the issue of climate and sustainability through the lens of many disciplines.
Princeton researchers reported in Science that tropical savanna wildfires combined with climate conditions maintain the border between savannas and forests.
Yes, science is being distorted. But, much more dangerous, it is being rejected.
Craig Arnold has found a surprising link between battery life and the day-to-day physical forces acting on an overlooked battery component.
The study will be conducted by researchers at the Meadowlands Environmental Research Institute (MERI); Rutgers-Newark, led by Karina Schafer and Princeton University, led by PEI's Peter Jaffe.
Increasingly, many scientists are puzzling over how best to present what they know and don't know to a broader audience.
Robert Socolow reflects on the need for the global community to find a new starting point for action on climate change.
Earthquakes have nothing to do with climate change — but nuclear power does.
A proposal from an interdisciplinary group of Princeton faculty has been selected by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) executive committee to become the first PIIRS research community to receive funding under an initiative announced earlier this year.
In the latest issue of Nature, Onstott and several colleagues announced the discovery of a creature one step up on the food chain from bacteria.
U.S. biologists, including PEI associated faculty members Daniel Rubenstein and Ian Couzin, worked with computer scientists to invent a scanner that can identify an individual zebra.
Lars Hedin, Director of the Program in Environmental Studies (ENV Program), charts a new course
Kelly Caylor, PEI associated faculty member, collaborates on a new project: "Coupling Hydrological Forecasts and Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa and China."
Jennifer Rexford, member of PEI associated faculty and Siebel Energy Challenge faculty, receives McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning Graduate Mentoring Award.
Technologies for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere unlikely to slow climate change in near term, according to American Physical Society study led by Robert Socolow.
This report is a review of the fish and fisheries section of the Feasibility Study (FS) and of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of the Xayaburi hydropower project, with a particular focus on the fish passes proposed as an environmental impact mitigation measure.
Francois Morel is recipient of ACS Award For Creative Advances In Environmental Science & Technology
Francois Morel, Albert G. Blanke, Jr., Professor of Geosciences and former director of PEI honored at award ceremony on March 29 at the 241st American Chemical Society national meeting.
"The middle class ... in the U.S. and other industrialized nations spend money on things we do not need. We could instead donate that money to organizations that make a huge difference in the lives of the world's poorest people."
Darren Samuelsohn reports that scientists and other advocates for acting on climate change are returning to a fight for public opinion they thought they'd won.
The Toughest Job in the World? The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Seeks Its First Communications Chief
In the highly politicized world of climate science, public relations can win or lose battles that shape the Earth's future.
What precisely about warming is unequivocal: that it has been ocurring? That it will occur in the future? That the entire problem we call "global warming" is unequivocal in all aspects?
Negotiations this year are smaller and more subdued than last year's climate conference in Copenhagen, with fewer heads of government attending the meetings -- and far fewer protests. But some, like climate expert Michael Oppenheimer of Princeton University, say that less attention may translate to more progress on some important issues. In Copenhagen, expectations were raised so high that they obscured reality, he said.
Almost anywhere he looks, Princeton professor Craig Arnold sees energy. "Plants convert light to sugar -- this is chemical energy," Arnold told students in his freshman seminar on "Science and Technology for a Sustainable Future." "Cars take chemical energy and convert it to linear motion. We convert electrical energy into visible light by using a light bulb."
An interview with Emmanuel Kreike, associate professor of history, Princeton University.
The University of Cantabria has announced the award of a Honorary Doctor's Degree to Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe.
On Sept. 23, 2010, Michael Oppenheimer briefed the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, U.S. House of Representatives, on extreme weather in a warming world.
Various efforts are underway to find a cheap, efficient and scalable way to recycle the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide back into the hydrocarbons that fuel civilization
Tanzania's iconic national park must not be divided by a highway, say Andrew Dobson, Markus Borner, Tony Sinclair and 24 others. A route farther south would bring greater benefits to development and the environment.
Researchers at Princeton University are spearheading a project funded by the U.S. Department of Energy to study the risks and economics of capturing carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, and storing it underground.
Oppenheimer Receives Heinz Award for Assessing the Impacts of Global Warming and Air Pollution, and Working for Policies to Prevent Future Harm
Teresa Heinz and the Heinz Family Foundation today announced the winners of the 16th annual Heinz Awards, honoring the contributions of 10 innovative and inspiring individuals whose work has addressed environmental challenges. Each recipient receives an unrestricted cash prize of $100,000.
Princeton University researchers will participate in a $122 million research project sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to develop technologies and educational programs to make buildings more energy efficient.
Michael Oppenheimer, David Wilcove, and others publish "Climate change: helping nature survive the human response" in Conservation International.
The paper Climate change: helping nature survive the human response, published in the scientific journal Conservation Letters, looks at efforts to both reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and potential action that could be taken by people to adapt to a changed climate and assesses the potential impact that these could have on global ecosystems.
This summer's work builds upon PEI's multiyear environmental monitoring program to help improve water quality and ecological balance.
Levin was chosen for his fundamental contributions in theoretical ecology and for his ground-breaking research on integrating different scales in understanding ecological processes.
Climate change's impacts on crop yields may force as many as seven million Mexicans to emigrate to the U.S. over the next 70 years, according to research published July 26 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Climate change is expected to cause mass human migration, including immigration across international borders.
Robert Socolow, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, has received the Keystone Award for Leadership in the Environment.
Two members of the Princeton University faculty have been recognized for major contributions to ecological research.
Danny Sigman publishes Nature review article on the role of the Southern Ocean in driving glacial/interglacial changes in atmospheric CO2 concentratio
The oscillations during the past 2.5 million years between ice ages and interglacials were probably triggered by orbital changes, but the observed amplitude and timing of these climate cycles still awaits a full explanation. One notable correlation links lower partial pressure (or concentration) of CO2 with ice ages: changes in CO2 concentration may cause some of the ice-age cooling, but what causes the loss of CO2 is unknown. Daniel Sigman, Mathis Hain and Gerald Haug review the evidence in sup
Climate change is expected to cause mass human migration, including immigration across international borders.
Without aggressive action to reduce soot emissions, the time table for carbon dioxide emission reductions may need to be significantly accelerated in order to achieve international climate policy goals such as those set forth in last December's Copenhagen Accord.
Two PEI-STEP Environmental Policy Fellows, Ning Lin and Luke MacDonald, graduated in June 2010 with Ph.D.s from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and in addition were awarded the Graduate Certificate in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy (STEP) from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
Since Israel's deadly raid on the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara last month, it's been assumed that Iran would be the major beneficiary of the wave of global anti-Israeli sentiment. But things seem to be playing out much differently: Iran paradoxically stands to lose much influence as Turkey assumes a surprising new role as the modern, democratic and internationally respected nation willing to take on Israel and oppose America.
Anthropology Professor Carolyn Rouse Spearheads Effort to Build the First High School in Oshiyie, Ghana, with Support from PEI/Grand Challenges
When she teaches "Race and Medicine," Princeton professor Carolyn Rouse invites black students to leave class 10 minutes early. She explains that this time would be needed to make up for shorter life expectancy -- on average blacks live five to six years less than whites in the United States.
To understand why Himalayan glaciers are melting, Princeton Professor Denise Mauzerall looks for causes as far away as Europe and Africa.
As soon as it became clear that the Deepwater Horizon oil eruption was going to be gushing for a while, anyone with a basic understanding of regional ocean currents, from sea captains to oceanographers, began to wonder: what will happen if the oil gets into the Loop Current?
Despite the challenges and shortcomings, Bhutan's way of conserving the environment and wildlife is worth appreciating, according to participants attending an international conference in Bumthang on "Wildlife research techniques in rugged mountainous Asian landscape" which ended yesterday.
PEI Awarded Five Environmental Studies Prizes and Named 44 Environmental Studies Certificate Recipients on Class Day
At PEI's class day in June, 44 students graduating with certificates in Environmental Studies gathered with faculty and family to celebrate.
This has been one of PEI's most enterprising years. We are pleased to share our exciting news with faculty, students, staff, alumni and friends.
In a collaboration melding art with science, climate researchers and other members of the Princeton University community joined forces with The Civilians to help create a work-in-progress about global climate change.
Using ENV 307as a foundation.
Faculty in Princeton and Norway Collaborate to Teach Innovative Carbon Capture and Sequestration Course
Serving audiences across the ocean.
Straining between remnants of the old paradigm and integration into the new.
Now in its third year of funding, the Grand Challenges Initiative, administered by PEI in collaboration with the Woodrow Wilson School and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has created a diverse research and scholarship endeavor.
While exploring the Panama Canal in a small tourist boat, Steve Cosson and Michael Friedman were startled by a massive container ship suddenly passing by, rocking them violently in its wake. Painted on the hull in Chinese characters, its name was boldly inscribed as "The Great Immensity."
PEI Research and Center News from Spring/Summer 2010.
After the disaster the need skyrocketed, inspiring a team of Princeton researchers to launch a one-year effort to develop, deploy and test two novel disaster-relief technologies -- a rainwater harvester and filtration system, and a wind turbine for renewable energy production.
Princeton senior Ruth Metzel has been awarded the University's Henry Richardson Labouisse '26 Prize, which will fund her work with a nongovernmental organization to help address environmental issues in Panama.
Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe, an environmental engineer and pioneer in the field of ecohydrology, has been elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors in all areas of science.
Nine Princeton faculty members are among the 180 artists, scientists and scholars selected from a group of some 3,000 candidates for the 2010 Guggenheim Fellowships.
Burning plutonium and other fissile materials in nuclear reactors may be a good way to get rid of the dangerous materials.
Recently, an analysis of Essential Science IndicatorsSM from Thomson Reuters recognized the work of Dr. Lars Hedin as having the highest percent increase in total citations in the field of Environment & Ecology.
Freshman Sarah Bluher spent part of her spring break in the Florida Everglades collecting field samples from an airboat in a water conservation area.
An international group of scientists, ethicists, and governance experts meeting here this week has agreed that research into large-scale modification of the planet is "indispensable" given the "threats" posed by climate change.
A lot of scientists and conservationists find themselves questioning whether science got its due in the latest round of international negotiations on trade in endangered wildlife.
In order to be sure that agreed emissions reductions are taking place, the U.S. must deploy new monitoring technologies, according to a new report.
In its final and most powerful report, a U.N. panel of scientists meeting here describes the mounting risks of climate change in language that is both more specific and forceful than its previous assessments, according to scientists here.
Two professors and the entrepreneur in residence in Princeton's engineering school have been elected members of the National Academy of Engineering, a professional society whose members are among the world's most accomplished engineers.
Participants shared research findings in climate science, carbon capture and storage and policy from the past year and discussed prospects of future domestic and international climate policy.
If you want to save the planet, think for a minute about the simple plastic cup. Eight or 12 ounces, perhaps emblazoned with a Princeton logo — the University goes through thousands of them each month.
Effective Feb. 1, 2010, Lars Hedin, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, will assume the role of Director, Program in Environmental Studies (ENV) at Princeton Environmental Institute.
The recipients, Craig Arnold, Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Lars Hedin, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, will receive funding for projects that will be integrated teaching and research initiatives within the Siebel Energy Grand Challenge.
Rising acid levels in the world's oceans appear to be robbing the tiny animals that form the bedrock of the marine food web of a vital nutrient.
Since childhood, junior Jason Baum has been aware of environmental issues, switching off lights when leaving a room and turning off the water while brushing his teeth.
The failed terrorist attack on an American aeroplane by a Nigerian man trained by al Qa'eda in Yemen has rapidly focused the world's attention on the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula.
Though experts may dispute the role of human activity in climate change, evidence is mounting that temperatures and sea levels are rising.
The Officers of the James S. McDonnell Foundation today announced more than $14 million in grants in their ongoing program, the 21st Century Science Initiative
At PEI we are approaching 2010 with a fresh sense of optimism. The Institute is strong and vital, as this issue of PEI News clearly illustrates.
Filling the ENV lab to capacity, students were eager to learn about the environmental studies program.
Now in its third year of funding, the Grand Challenges Initiative, administered by PEI in collaboration with the Woodrow Wilson School and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has created a diverse research and scholarship endeavor.
When the more than 100 students completed internships this summer, they had at least one more commitment.
Regarding his plans for the Oil, Energy and Middle East Initiative, teaching and research.
Baker is in residence at PEI for the fall 2009 semester. A native of Texas, she is Director, Well Planning and Geotechnical Operations at BP.
On June 1, 2009, PEI held it's 15th annual Class Day celebration.
A summary of the University's many campus sustainability initiatives.
PEI Research and Centers News from Fall/Winter 2009.
Franz, a third year Ph.D. student was awarded a $10,000 grant to continue his research.
"Is Copenhagen the watershed or just another missed opportunity — there's no way to tell yet," said Michael Oppenheimer, a Princeton University climate scientist who attended the talks.
The question is a potential deal-killer: If nations ever agree to slash greenhouse gas emissions, how will the world know if they live up to their pledges?
Global warming in this century might raise sea levels more than expected in future centuries, says a study that looked at what happened at a time when Neanderthals roamed Europe.
An additional 2 degrees of global warming could commit the planet to 6 to 9 meters (20 to 30 feet) of long-term sea level rise.
Hoping to help fix the Earth's atmosphere, Catherine Peters recently found herself 4,100 feet underground.
Margaret Martonosi, a Princeton professor of electrical engineering, has been named a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and of the IEEE, an international professional association for the advancement of technology.
How much good can this amount of aid do? How much would be enough if the industrialized nations can't come to a climate change agreement? Should the United States throw in with this approach if it's unlikely that Congress will approve any greenhouse gas reduction plan?
The climate problem is caused by prosperity.
If patterns of globalization over decades could be plotted on a world map, what might they look like and what deeper insights might they reveal, wondered Miguel Centeno.
Americans' day-to-day lives won't change noticeably if President Barack Obama achieves his newly announced goal of slashing carbon dioxide pollution by one-sixth in the next decade, experts say.
The online publication of sensitive e-mails and documents from a British climate centre is brewing into one of the scientific controversies of the year, causing dismay among affected institutes and individuals.
In its first report since adopting a Sustainability Plan in February 2008, Princeton University states that on-campus greenhouse gas emissions have decreased for the first time since the University's energy-efficient cogeneration plant was installed in 1996.
When the more than 100 students who completed internships this summer through the Princeton Environmental Institute and the Grand Challenges Program returned to campus, they had at least one more commitment. As a culminating experience, they were required to report on what they learned during their experiences with faculty, research labs, governmental agencies, nongovernmental organizations, nonprofit organizations and industry enterprises in more than 20 countries. On two Fridays this fall,
Bernard Haykel, Principal Investigator of EGC program, publishes article "Al-Qaida stumbles in Saudi"
Although al-Qaida's leadership, beliefs, and ideology are rooted in Saudi Arabia, the organisation has been all but crushed in the kingdom by a government policy that combines a big carrot and an even bigger stick. The attempted assassination in Jeddah last month of Prince Muhammad bin Nayef, the deputy interior minister for security affairs, demonstrates both elements of the Saudi strategy, and how a bold attempt by al-Qaida to revive its fortunes has failed.
Daniel Sigman, a Princeton University biogeochemist who has conducted pioneering work exploring the large-scale systems that have supported life on the planet throughout the millennia, has been selected as a 2009 MacArthur Fellow.
As part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), Princeton University has received more than $17 million in research funding from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.
Filling the ENV lab to capacity, the enthusiastic students were eager to learn how to incorporate environmental studies into their undergraduate coursework.
After more than a decade of inquiry, a Princeton-led team of scientists has turned the tables on a long-standing controversy to re-establish an old truth about nitrogen mixing in the oceans.
Catherine Peters to lead a University project to evaluate carbon storage, newly funded by the Department of Energy
Catherine Peters, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Acting Director of the Energy Grand Challenge program, is leading a university project to evaluate carbon storage, newly funded by the Department of Energy.
Emily Carter, the Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Applied and Computational Mathematics, has been elected a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science.
In his new book, "The Princeton Guide to Ecology," Princeton professor Simon Levin has tapped more than 130 experts to compile a concise, authoritative one-volume reference to the major subjects and concepts in ecology.
At the moment, the roof above Dormitory A of the redeveloped Butler College complex is a "green" roof only in the most technical sense of the phrase.
The new dormitories at Princeton University are already covered in green -- but not the traditional green ivy of the Ivy League.
The United States could meet projected growth in energy demand through 2030 with existing technologies, but the nation's long-term energy sustainability will require an enduring commitment, by both the public and private sectors, to developing, demonstrating and deploying new technologies and energy sources, according to a National Academy of Sciences committee chaired by Princeton Professor and President Emeritus Harold T. Shapiro.
Biofuels derived from renewable sources can be produced in large quantities and address many problems related to fossil fuels, including greenhouse gas emissions, but only if they are made from certain sources, according to a new article by a team of scientists and policy experts that included several Princeton researchers.
Princeton's Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, will receive the 2009 William Bowie Medal, the highest honor awarded by the American Geophysical Union.
Princeton University's Peter and Rosemary Grant, whose legendary explorations on the bleak Galapagos island of Daphne Major over nearly four decades have produced an array of dazzling insights into evolutionary theory, have been named recipients of the Kyoto Prize.
Deutsche Bank Launches World's First Real-Time Carbon Counter that Displays Greenhouse Gases in the Atmosphere
Deutsche Bank's Asset Management division (DeAM) today launched the world's first scientifically valid, real-time carbon counter, a nearly 70-foot-tall digital billboard displaying the running total of long-lived greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Christina Paxson, a Princeton faculty member since 1986 who is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of Economics and Public Affairs and chair of the Department of Economics, has been selected as dean of the University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Her appointment is effective July 1.
Kelly Caylor, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, has been awarded a Faculty Early Career Development award from the National Science Foundation.
Robert Socolow, a Princeton professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, will receive the American Society of Mechanical Engineers' Frank Kreith Energy Award for his pioneering contributions in energy research. The award recognizes Socolow's research on energy conservation, renewable energy and technologies to reduce CO2 emissions, which has influenced international policies on energy and the environment.
Robert Socolow, a Princeton professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, will receive the American Society of Mechanical Engineers' Frank Kreith Energy Award for his pioneering contributions in energy research.
Princeton University will be home to a new $20 million energy research center for combustion science as part of a federal initiative to spur discoveries that lay the groundwork for an economy based on clean replacements for fossil fuels.
The second round of initiatives seeking to improve sustainability on Princeton's campus have been funded under the auspices of the University's Sustainability Plan.
For Trenton Franz, the one drawback to being a football star at the University of Wyoming -- he helped lead his team to its first bowl victory in 38 years -- was missing out on the chance to study abroad. His graduate work at Princeton has more than filled the gap. Working with civil engineering professors Michael Celia and Kelly Caylor, Franz studies the interactions among climate, water and vegetation in dryland ecosystems in central Kenya. By the time he earns his Ph.D., he will have spent
A team of researchers led by Princeton University scientists has found for the first time that tropical rainforests, a vital part of the Earth's ecosystem, rely on the rare trace element molybdenum to capture the nitrogen fertilizer needed to support their wildly productive growth.
Grand Challenges collaborations focus on development, energy, health solutions.
Ask Princeton ecologist David Wilcove about the largest threat to the greatest number of species in the next 25 years, and he'll give you a two-word answer. Global warming? No, oil palm.
Energy company BP has committed to a five-year renewal of a joint research partnership with Princeton University that identifies ways of tackling the world's climate problem.
An interdisciplinary group of scholars will examine the ethical dimensions of the challenge presented by climate change in a fall lecture series sponsored by the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI) and the University Center for Human Values.
In one corridor, a faculty member was having an animated discussion on the future of the oil supply with two students. At a table, a Dining Services staff member was helping a local high school student with a project on recycling. Behind a bicycle that powered a light bulb, a student organization officer was signing up a new member.
A gift from Currie and Thomas A. Barron, a 1974 alumnus, offers new support for work at the intersection of environmental issues and the humanities at Princeton University.
As a venture capitalist, Paul Maeder recognizes that investing in new ideas can enable tremendous progress in the business arena.
You have to love nature, rising junior Stephanie Hill said, when you grow up, as she did, in a remote, pristine village on the shores of a glacier-fed lake in British Columbia.
President Shirley M. Tilghman comments on Princeton's focus on energy and the environment.
After a competitive review process, Princeton University's Cooperative Institute for Climate Science has been selected as a collaborative research partner by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Princeton ecologist Simon Levin, who has made major contributions in the areas of biological conservation and ecosystem management, has been selected as a foreign member of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, a venerable Italian academic institute.
If you were a zebra, how would you spend your days? Daniel Rubenstein, director of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University, has been pursuing this question for years.
A conference on environmental justice scheduled for Monday and Tuesday, April 28-29, will cap a yearlong collaboration between the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI) and the Center for African American Studies that has enabled Princeton students and scholars to thoroughly explore the topic.
In many ways, H. Vincent Poor, a 1977 graduate alumnus who became dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science in June 2006, epitomizes Princeton's tradition of the teacher-scholar.
A new report should spur public debate about how science and technology can best sustain the earth while furthering the goals of humanity, according to Robert Socolow, one of 18 maverick thinkers convened by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) to map the greatest technological challenges of this century.
Snorkeling practice in DeNunzio Pool may be an unusual activity for a freshman seminar, unless the class is going to the Sargasso Sea.
David Wilcove, one of world's leading experts on endangered species, discusses his new book, No Way Home, which chronicles the decline of the world's animal migrations.
Scientists are developing a new branch of network theory to understand zebra communities.
Humanity can't go on like this. Earth's climate is shifting, and it is all but certainly civilization's fault for burning fossil fuels and spewing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
Eleven Princeton faculty members have been involved in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, Oct. 12.
Claire Kremen studies honeybees and the extinction of species. Saul Griffith is an inventor who is trying, among other things, to develop a process that will bring corrective eyewear to people in the Third World.
Princeton Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Fred Dryer has a lofty goal: end the nation's reliance on oil for jet travel.
Princeton faculty members have been invited to submit proposals by Monday, Sept. 17, for seed grants for projects under a new teaching and research program focused on important issues that share dominant environmental, political, social and engineering dimensions
The earth is growing warmer, thanks to elevated concentrations of greenhouse gases, and the vast majority of scientists now believe that human activity, especially the burning of fossil fuels, is primarily responsible.
Michael Oppenheimer, David Wilcove, and others publish "Climate change: helping nature survive the human response" in Conservation International.
The paper Climate change: helping nature survive the human response, published in the scientific journal Conservation Letters, looks at efforts to both reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and potential action that could be taken by people to adapt to a changed climate and assesses the potential impact that these could have on global ecosystems.
David Wilcove, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Public Affairs, has been named a recipient of the 2011 Pioneers of Science Award.
PEI Professor François M.M. Morel has received the Einstein Chair Professorship from the Institute of Urban Environment (IUE), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
PEI Researchers Combat Climate Change through Land Rehabilitation and Carbon Sequestration in Northern Kenya
Researchers from Princeton, in partnership with other scientists, are launching a research project that will ultimately help improve the livelihoods of pastoralists in the Horn of Africa region.
For the second consecutive year since adopting a Sustainability Plan, Princeton University's on-campus greenhouse gas emissions have decreased.
On his blog "Dot Earth," Andrew Revkin discusses "Wedges Reaffirmed," an article written by PEI's Robert Socolow and published by The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists and Climate Central.
David Wilcove has been named a 2011 Pioneers of Science Award recipient by the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute (HWI).
While Emily Carter was in Germany this week accepting an award from the German Chemical Society, she gave this lecture.
A network of dashboard-mounted phones can collect data on traffic lights and tell drivers how to avoid inefficient stopping and starting.
China, India and Saudi Arabia are trying to secure their food supply by leasing water-rich African land. Doing so is cheaper and easier than using water resources back home, but it could backfire.
Animal species all follow the same rule for how common they are in an ecosystem, scientists have discovered. And the rule is simple.
Have Chinese Coal Plants Been Keeping Global Warming in Check? It all sounds logical, and, says Hiram Levy,"the idea is physically sound." But he's not convinced that this is what's really happening.


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Drop and Swap 2016
It is that time of year again: EXAMS and MOVE OUT!
Before you throw away your old, unwanted items consider putting them in the drop and swap box located in each residence hall:
Donate your unwanted items during move out or swap an item that you intend to donate for a previously donated item.
The goal of the program is to divert waste from the local landfill, and provide non-perishable food to FACES, the local food pantry, and gently used items to non-profit organizations, such as Madeline's House, Goodwill, Tail Waggers, and the ReStore.
What to donate:
- Unopened, nonperishable food
- Clean, gently worn clothing and linens
- Furniture
- Small appliances
- Electronics
- Laundry detergent
- Cleaning supplies
- Books, CDs, DVDs, etc.
What not to donate:
- Opened, expired food
- Foam mattress pads
- Pillows
Collection boxes for Drop and Swap will be available beginning Monday, April 25 thru Saturday, May 14, 2016 in the lobby of all residence halls and the clubhouse/lounge of off-campus apartment communities and at the dumpsters.
What is sustainability?
Longwood has adopted the definition of sustainability from Our Common Future: The Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development, commonly known as the Bruntland Report:
"Sustainable Development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."
Our Mission
The mission of the Office of Sustainability is to provide leadership and guidance in planning, developing, organizing, and implementing programs and activities that promote campus sustainability initiatives. The OFS will maximize the effectiveness and efficiency of the university's sustainability efforts and provide a comprehensive, university-wide approach that encompasses the three components of sustainability-economic security, environmental protection and social justice.
Farmville Area Farmer's Market
Buy fresh, buy local!
The Farmville Area Farmer's Market offers locally grown in-season fruits and vegetables and homemade and handcrafted goods.
Sat: 8:00 am - 12:00 pm
213 North Street
Farmville, VA 23901
Want to know the local weather conditions?
The WeatherBug Station, located on Jarman Hall, provides real-time, local weather conditions and forecasts. Click here for current conditions and a live image of Brock Commons.


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Finn mac Cool
Finn mac Cool
Finn mac Cool is one of the greatest warriors to come out of Ireland, but he's also a softie at heart (poor guy's fiancée, Grainne, ran out on him). He's also had absolute knowledge ever since he burned his thumb on the Salmon of Wisdom. That doesn't stop him from wanting to look good, though. As the leader of the Fianna warrior band, Finn loves to sculpt his abs and glutes with his buddies at the gym.
Basic Information
|Finn mac Cool (or Fionn mac Cumhaill)
|Finny. I was born "Deimne," but I got my nickname, "Finn," which means "blond," from my hair color.
|Current city
|Somewhere in the Otherworld, waiting for Ireland to be in danger so I can come back to life and rescue the Irish people.
Work & Education
|Professional warrior
|I trained with my personal war band, the Fianna, from age eight. I also got some insider training from my aunt, a Druidess, and her BFF, a female warrior.
|Political views
|I make the rules in the Fianna.
Family & Friends (& Enemies)
|My dad's name was Cumhall and my mom's name is Murna. Some people told me that my dad attacked my mom, then was killed in war by the hero Conn of the Hundred Battles. Other people said that, because he was chief of the Fianna, his rival warriors of Clan Morna got jealous and bumped him off.
|My son, Oisin, was a great warrior and poet, and my grandson, Oscar, was no slouch on the battlefield, either.
|Most of the Fianna
|Goll mac Morna, who killed my dad; Diarmaid, a warrior who stole my bride-to-be, Grainne
|Relationship status
|Married to Sadb, a princess who was a human, then turned into a deer, then became a human, then a deer again. Yeah.
I've got a few other wives, including Tasha of the White Arms and Aibe, daughter of the High King Cormac mac Airt. I was originally supposed to marry Aibe's sister, Grainne, but she skipped out on our wedding.
|Interested in
|Ladies of the Otherworld
|"I've done a lot of bad things. Use your imagination."
– Katy Perry
"Sometimes just when I say hello the right way, I'm like, 'Whoa, I'm so cool.'"
– Robert Pattinson
"Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible."
– Charles Haughey
"You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor."
– Aristotle
|All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
(Politics in ancient Ireland seem simple compared to this.)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
(Dr. Jekyll's like Diarmaid—my ex-BFF really turned on me.)
Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare
(What a great warrior he was!)
Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
(The awesome tale of my British cuz.)
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
Finn mac Cool by Morgan Llywelyn
(My semi-fictional autobiography—not bad.)
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
|...Baby One More Time by Britney Spears
(I love her dance sequence in that gym.)
Born This Way by Lady Gaga
(My wife loves this song; she was born human, then turned into a deer.)
Man in the Mirror by Michael Jackson
The Salmon Dance by My Chemical Romance
Cry Me a River by Justin Timberlake
(...especially if the Salmon of Wisdom comes out of that river.)
Somewhere Out There by James Horner
(Somewhere out there were Diarmaid and Grainne... hiding from me.)
Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
Over the Rainbow by Judy Garland
(Who said rainbows were just for the Irish?)
|The Men Who Stare at Goats
(A bit of magical thinking in war goes a long way.)
The Deer Hunter
(I love this movie... but the missus hates it.)
St. Patrick: the Irish Legend
(It's rumored that my son Oisin met St. Patrick.)
King Arthur
The Shawshank Redemption
A Knight's Tale
Conan the Barbarian
|TV Shows
|Spartacus: Vengeance
Once Upon a Time
(Fairy tales come to life in an awesome way.)
Band of Brothers
Adventures of Superman
(The original—and best—superhero.)
No Ordinary Family
Activities & Interests
|Bloodhound puppies
The beauty of untamed nature
My glorious blond hair
Epic Irish poetry
Lovely young maidens
|Salmon fishing
Riding mountain bikes through the forest
Taming wild deer
Keeping an eye on my girlfriend
Hanging with my Fianna buddies at the local pub
|Ichthyology (study of fishing)
Veterinary studies
Irish culture
Scottish geography (for tracking down the fleeing Diarmaid and Grainne)
|My Friend Stole My Fiancée and I Didn't Even Get a Lousy T-Shirt
Events in Irish History


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LeVar Burton�has launched a�Kickstarter campaign�to make�Reading Rainbow�a web series.
"Ever since�Reading Rainbow�began in 1983, I have dedicated myself to fostering a love of reading in children, just as my mother did for me," Burton writes on the website. "Over the past year, I have watched Kickstarter bring communities together to support artists and inventors. Again and again, I have been inspired by watching like-minded people team up to accomplish impossible dreams, and to change the world.�Now, I am hoping you will join me on my mission: to bring�Reading Rainbow�back for every child, everywhere."
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The PBS series ran from 1983 until it �was canceled in 2006, but continued to air�reruns until 2009. In 2012, Burton�announced�he was creating a mobile application through his site�RRKidz. At the time, Burton said the app was just the first step in a long-term plan that would include DVDs and streaming of classic episodes. Recognizing that not every child has a tablet, Burton hopes the website will bring his program to anyone with Internet access.�
As of this publishing, more than 9,000 people have become backers of the Kickstarter campaign, pledging just under $450,000. Burton has 35 days to reach his goal of $1,000,000.
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