Sustainable transportation is a hot growth area across American campuses. Some schools have developed community bike programs; others coordinate rail and bus service for commuters. Many have added hybrid … Read more
November, 2008
Final Round-up for AASHE 2008
We had a great time at AASHE: Sustainability on Campus and Beyond, and hope you did as well. The general feeling was one of determination, as members of universities and … Read more
Purer Water, Smarter Students–AASHE 2008
As a warm-up to this year’s AASHE conference, I toured Duke University with a group of other sustainability professionals, starting with the swamp. I imagine most campus visitors don’t immediately … Read more
The Heat Movers
This story is the second of a series that will explore various types of ground heat mining and their campus applications. Also see Universities Lead the Charge to Mine the … Read more
Shifting from RECs to Offsets–AASHE 2008
To the surprise of the presenter, Dave Newport of CU-Boulder, this afternoon’s discussion of GHG offsets and Renewable Energy Credits didn’t degenerate into fisticuffs or even a red-faced screaming match. … Read more
Get People Back on the Land for Health and Peace –AASHE 2008
In the space of an hour, Vandana Shiva, physicist and agricultural activist, managed to connect the oil and human labor inputs required by modern agriculture, the nutritional deficit of monocrops, … Read more
Extending the University’s Influence–AASHE 2008
Sustainability is rarely defined as a single-entity problem, especially when considering recent economic and political traumas. Gordon Rands of Western Illinois University and Mark Starik of George Washington University argued … Read more
The Climate for Change
In his New York Times opinion piece The Climate for Change, former Vice President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore rightly points out that: "…the bold steps that are … Read more
Lester Brown: Mobilizing for a Clean-Energy Civilization– AASHE 2008
Today’s environmentalism has been called a ‘Third Wave.’ Unlike the conservation ethic of the early 1900s, or the calls for anti-pollution regulation and the mass nostalgia for a more agrarian … Read more
