The good feeling you get when you donate to your favorite charity could be your brain patting you on the back. A team of psychologists and economists from the University of Oregon has found that donating to charity activates a part of the brain associated with pleasure. The study, published in the journal Science, represents… Read more »
The Issue The New Zealand Mud Snail is an invasive species that has been spreading through Western United States rivers and lakes for over a decade now. Recently, this species has been detected in a section of Boulder Creek and one other river in Colorado. Because this species is so resilient both in and out… Read more »
This quarter’s CAP class’ action project focused on educating people about the practice of being “carbon neutral” and supporting renewable energy sources. In order to do this we studied conventional energy sources, alternatives to these, and what it means to be carbon neutral. In order to fully understand carbon neutrality you have to know how the… Read more »
If every U.S. household replaced one roll of regular paper towels with 100 percent recycled ones, we’d save 544,000 trees. Source: Green Life – http://sierraclub.typepad.com/greenlife
As the quarter comes to a close, I want to get some open and honest feedback from the 4th Quarter 2007 CAP class to improve the CAP for future students. This information will not affect your grade, but please take it seriously. It will be reviewed by the school, the Cottonwood Institute, and this information… Read more »
The Issue The New Zealand Mud Snail is an invasive species that has been spreading through Western United States rivers and lakes for over a decade now. Recently, this species has been detected in a section of Boulder Creek and one other river in Colorado. Because this species is so resilient both in and out… Read more »
"Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am– a reluctant enthusiast…a part time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it is still… Read more »
"Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world." Immanuel Kant
"We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot-stove lid again, and that is well; but also she will never sit down… Read more »
The Cottonwood Institute recently showed Who Killed the Electric Car? at our Change the World Movie Night at the Fluid Coffee Bar in Denver. I really enjoyed how this film presented and analyzed the various suspects that contributed to the life and death of GM’s Electric Vehicles (EV). Suspects included the California Air Resources Board,… Read more »
