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VOLUME 120ISSUE 97
WEDNESDAY,FEBRUARY 11,2009
Valentine's Day
How to show your love for your beloved and the earth at the same time
BY AMANDA THOMPSON
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Students can make their Valentine's Day not only red-hot, but also green. Here's how to enjoy alternatives to the run-of-the-mill candles, wine, chocolate and roses with the environment in mind.
A CLEANER BURN
Traditional candles are paraffin-based, which means they are made with petroleum. According to the American Lung Association, burning paraffin candles can contribute to particle pollution in the home.
Jill Camerlinck, sales associate with Waxman Candles, 609 Massachusetts St., said she thought burning soy-based candles was better than burning paraffin candles.
"Whenever you burn paraffin, when you blow the candle out you have the soot that comes off it," Camerlınck said. "But with the soy, it's a little puff of smoke but not as much. It's a much cleaner burn."
Waxman Candles makes its candles on site in the back of the store. Camerlinck said the process of making soy and paraffin candles is the same, but the smell of the soy is different.
"To me it kind of smells like a doughnut," Camerlinck said.
Soy candles available at Waxman range from small votives to larger candles, and range in price from $1.75 to $25.
A GREENER GRAPE
Organic and biodynamic wines can be found at Cork and Barrel, 2000 W. 23rd St. John Smiley, the store's owner, said biodynamic wine differed from normal organic wine because of the
way the grapes were grown. Grapes for organic wine are grown without the use of pesticides.
"For biodynamic wine the fertilizer you use has to be organic that came from a cow that was fed only organic materials," Smiley said. "Anything that touches the grape has to be organic through a long chain of items."
Smiley said he didn't think organic wines were the most popular wines sold at Cork and Barrel, but he could sense definitely.
growing in popularity. Smiley said the taste of organic and biodynamic wines helped boost their popularity.
"There's definitely a taste difference," Smiley said. "A lot of them are softer, with not as much bite."
Smiley said organic and biodynamic wines were priced similarly to other wines sold at Cork and Barrel and usually sold from $12 to $15 dollars per bottle. Organic wines are available in merlot, cabernet. chardonnay and pinot noir. The biody-
namic wine available at Cork and Barrel is called Hedges.
A SWEETER PLANET
According to www.globalexchange.org, a product is certified fair trade if it ensures safe working conditions and adequate living wage for the workers who produce the product. Forced child labor is prohibited, and environmentally sustainable production is required. Au Marche, 931 Massachusetts
A CLEANER BURN
Waxman Candles
609 Massachusetts St.
$1.75 to $25
St. offers three lines of fair-trade chocolate: El Ray, Santander and Malagasy. The Malagasy line has two different bars, the Mora Mora and the Sambirano. Each bar is $7.75. Organic chocolates, made without pesticides, are also available
Lora Wiley, owner of Au Marche, said the taste of these chocolates was important.
"I have found that it is important to some of our customers to have fair-trade options available, but for the most part we carry these chocolates because of their excellent flavor and quality," Wiley said.
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A GREENER GRAPE
Cork and Barrel
2000 W. 23rd St.
$12 to $15
A SWEETER PLANET
Au Marche
931 Massachusetts St.
$7.75
Photos by Jenny Terrell and Chance Dibben/KANSAN
Graphic by Brenna Hawley/KANSAN
A ROSIER EARTH The Community Mercantile 901 Iowa St. $7.99 to $17.99
LAWRENCE
Wal-Mart begins to accept applications for new store
BY ALEX GARRY
Ryan McGeeney/KANSAN
agarry@kansan.com
Wal-Mart has announced that its new location near Sixth and Wakana streets will open in late April. Wal-Mart is accepting applications for about 230 jobs.
Wal-Mart will begin accepting applications today for about 230 jobs at its new location at Sixth Street and Wakarusa Drive, officials said Tuesday. The store is set to open this summer.
Anyone interested in applying can begin the process online at Walmart.com/apply, said Cheryl White, supervisor at the Lawrence Workforce Center, where Wal-Mart is setting up a hiring location.
Wal-Mart personnel officials will
begin to call applicants into the center for interviews and will probably work on hiring individuals from there for about six weeks, White said. Potential applicants can also register with the center and use its computers to begin the application process.
White said Wal-Mart took extra computers to the center to ease what was expected to be a high application load.
The Lawrence Workforce Center,
2540 Iowa St., is open from 8 a.m.
to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Edited by Brandy Entsminger
ENVIRONMENT
Exhibit spotlights climate issue
KU Libraries showcases an interdisciplinary approach to global ecological observation
BY KEVIN HARDY khardy@kansan.com
A new exhibit on the world's environment featuring a blend of the arts, engineering and the social sciences will debut Thursday at Watson Library.
KU Libraries will hold a grand opening of the new exhibit,
Rebecca Smith, director of coming the department of dance, EcoHawks, the Institute for Policy and Social Research, C-CHANGE, the department of design, the School of Engineering, the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets, and the Spencer Museum of Art.
"Environmental Change; an Interdisciplinary Perspective," at 5 p.m. on the third floor.
Several University departments and organizations contributed materials to the exhibit includ-
munications for KU Libraries, said the new exhibit was the first project of the newly founded library exhibits committee. The committee plans to rotate five exhibits each year; the current exhibit will run until April 2, Smith said.
Smith said the exhibit's installation did not affect the general study layout of the library. The
"All these environmental issues impact everything in life, even the humanities."
Sarah Goodwin Thiel, associate librarian and chairwoman of the library exhibits committee, said the world's ecological situation seemed an obvious topic for the first exhibit. Goodwin Thiel said she hoped the exhibit would increase awareness of climate
SARAH GOODWIN THIEL
Associate librarian
committee installed a new plasma television, repainted walls, refinished exhibit cases and installed new flooring, at a cost of about $6,000. The exhibit program is funded by private donations made to KU. Endowment
for library funding, Smith said.
change and other environmental concerns.
"All these environmental issues impact everything in life," Goodwin Thiel said, "even the humanities."
In addition to highlighting library collection pieces, the exhibit will feature student work. Goodwin Thiel said the department of dance contributed video of interpretive dance with an environmental image.
Sunny Sanwar, Kansas City, Mo., senior and EcoHawks member, submitted computer-aided drawings of an auto project to the exhibit. Sanwar said his team had been working on making a Volkswagen Beetle more efficient since August. The group is experimenting with biodiesel and ethanol engines to make the most efficient vehicle possible, Sanwar said.
Jenny Terrell/KANSAN
"We're really just recycling an old vehicle to make it much more eco-friendly." Samwar said.
Whitney Baker and Sarah Goodwin 1ner,
members of the KU Library Exhibits
Committee, arrange documents for the
"Environmental Change" exhibit in the display case installed on the third floor of Watson Library. The exhibit will run until April 2.
The team of 16 engineering students redesigns different parts of the car to make them more
streamlined and efficient. Sanwar said the group hoped to have the car completely finished by mid-May.
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