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- Description:
- Professor Susan Selke delivers a talk titled, "Rethinking the Packaging of the Products You Buy - Is There Hope to Reduce Waste?" Selke talks about the Packaging school at Michigan State University, the utility of packages, minimizing packaging materials, and recycling. She explains the communication function labeling performs, how packaging has changed, and how other countries monetize the costs of waste in the cost of the packaging. Sleke also describes the value of recycling as a cost reduction method when there is a use for the material. Part of the Michigan State University Libraries' Environmental Series, held at the MSU Main Library.
- Date Issued:
- 2013-02-13T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Wilbur (Pete) Tullis graduated from Ohio State University in 1934 and came to Grand Haven in 1938 to be an agronomist in the new Soil Conservation District of Ottawa County, the first east of the Mississippi River. In this interview, he talks extensively about sand dune erosion in the Grand Haven area and describes the environmental problems Grand Haven Township experienced in the 1930s. Pete recalls what it was like to live in a Civilian Conservation Corps camp between 1939 and 1941. Later, Tullis was employed as a professional farm manager with Opekasit Farm Management and retired in 1958 from J. Sawyer Company. He was a member of the Grand Haven Rotary and a Paul Harris Fellow.
- Date Issued:
- 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Speaking before a group of business owners and immigration reform supporters, President Obama urges the House of Representatives to pass immigration reform that's good for the country's economic and national security, and says that it should be done this year.
- Date Issued:
- 2013-10-24T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Barack Obama honors America's military service members on Veterans Day. Obama reflects on the service and sacrifices of military personnel and their families. He promises "unprecedented support to our veterans" to provide a range of health care services and other benefits the veterans have earned. Held at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.
- Date Issued:
- 2013-11-11T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Date Issued:
- 1912-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- In a press conference following his naming of Jack Kemp as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, George Bush answers questions about nuclear energy, privatization of inner city housing, attitudes toward Yasir Arafat, the introduction of "new faces" into the cabinet, and the amount of money he intends to put into housing programs. Jack Kemp also tells of his intention to work for adequate housing for the homeless as well as on affordable housing for the other classes.
- Date Issued:
- 1988-12-19T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Address is given prior to the emergency session of the U.N. General Assembly. Introductory remarks by Secretary Dean Rusk.
- Date Issued:
- 1967-06-19T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Bush celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of President Johnsons civil rights law, reaffirming support of minority outreach and affirmative action programs.
- Date Issued:
- 1989-06-30T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Mondale says the CIA should never be allowed such leeway again.
- Date Issued:
- 1975-11-20T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Date Issued:
- 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection