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  • Climate Changers: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Reducing Personal Carbon Emissions

    Creator:
    Johnson, Carly A.
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    In an era of human-induced climate change, there is increasing interest in encouraging people to reduce their carbon dioxide (carbon) emissions by adopting low-carbon behaviors, or behaviors that reduce a person’s use of fossil fuels. I designed the Campus Carbon Challenge as a research and outreach project to gain a...
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    1.1). The OSU participants represented approximately 90 departments on campus (80% of departments

  • Defining the gap : a case study of the on campus residential options at Oregon State University

    Creator:
    Nelson, Rachel C.
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    The decision to attend a university creates many important decisions for a young adult, with one of the most important being the choice of where to live while they make the transition into independent adults. Many choose to live on campus during this critical time. The differences that exist, and...
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    , & Walkerdine 2003). In addition to the general changes, the ratio of women to men in the on-campus

  • Health literacy among end stage renal disease patients

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    Wolfe, RoxiAnn Blanche
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    This research examines the impact of low health literacy among patients with End Stage Renal Disease. The sample included individuals who participated in a health education class (Pre-Renal Education Program) offered at the Samaritan Dialysis Services in Corvallis, Oregon. Data collection techniques included participant observation, individual interviews, evaluation of the...
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    one of the local health facilities, Samaritan Dialysis Services in Corvallis, offers a pre-renal

  • A blank screen? : digital divide discourses and practices

    Creator:
    Powell, Jasmine
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    The existence of a “digital divide,” or inequalities of access to digital technologies among different American subpopulations, has been hotly debated and contested since the National Telecommunications and Information Administration first popularized the phrase in 1995. The purpose of this thesis is to critically examine the dominant discourses around the...
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    not manifest within the practices of the African American college student population in Corvallis

  • Going somewhere or getting stuck : transitions to adulthood in rural Oregon

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    Cunningham, Sarah E.
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    This dissertation explores the real world problem of rural youth out-migration and finds that the central problem is one of persistent class difference in this rural Oregon town. The research that informs this dissertation was conducted in a rural community of approximately 2300 residents in Eastern Oregon, here called Talltown....
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    lifestyles are intricately tied to a web of global relations,” it is not new (Nayak 2003:170). The effect

  • Neighborhood emergency networks in Uzhhorod, Ukraine and Corvallis, Oregon, U.S.A. : women's neighborhood network and Linn-Benton neighborhood emergency training

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    Weidner, Naomi
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    This thesis examines two neighborhood emergency preparedness programs: the Linn-Benton Neighborhood Emergency Training (LB NET) program in Corvallis, Oregon, U.S.A., and the Women's Neighborhood Networking Program (WNNP) in Uzhhorod, Ukraine. In Corvallis, the LB NET began in 1996, in part out of concerns that in a large disaster the local...
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    of 14 neighborhoods between October 2001 and February 2003. Oregon State University Office of

  • Imagining them, reimagining ourselves : a case study of cultural appropriation and the politics of identity

    Creator:
    Smith-Nolan, Mary K.
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    Several popular cultural movements emphasizing indigenous spirituality have arisen in the United States and Europe within the past thirty years. Spiritual discourses attributed to Native Americans, among other groups, are borrowed by Euro-Americans in search of alternatives to dominant ideologies. In such a circumstance, Native Americans become part of a...
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    actual Native American lives. This study is based on participant observation of the Corvallis, Oregon

  • Recognizing and overcoming the critical cultural barriers to progress in the sustainability movement : from a human perspective

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    Bestvina, Bodarc
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    This thesis seeks to better understand the most pressing cultural barriers to progress in the sustainability movement, and to offer suggestions for overcoming barriers. This research includes a two-year long case study of the sustainability movement at OSU, where the researcher coordinated projects encouraging behavior change. Despite increasing severity and...
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    Coordinator of the OSU Environmental Humanities Initiative (and coordinator at Energize Corvallis) (Cindy

  • A Hand Up, Not a Hand Out : Negotiations of Poverty and Class Among Low-Income Oregonians

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    Montañez, Morgan
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    The Linn and Benton County Gleaner network has helped the low-income families of urban and rural Oregon reclaim moral, social and cultural capital that is lost in the act of being poor in America. Rather than participating solely in government safety nets, these people reject “hand-outs” in favor of exchanging...
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    can also hold one back. For the middle and upper classes, their accumulation of capital means a

  • Cape Scene & the path to a conscientious tourism product

    Creator:
    Sykes, Kimberly M.
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    Many countries around the world are looking to tourism as a sustainable solution for economic development and many individuals seek business opportunities in the tourism industry. Researchers in the field of anthropology and other disciplines alike have recorded findings of the environmental, economic and cultural impacts of tourism development that...
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    . Sykes for the degree of Master of Arts in Applied Anthropology presented on June 24, 2003. Title: Cape