Students at the University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC) will now encounter a beef-free menu every Wednesday, thanks to the school’s commitment to reducing its meat-related greenhouse gas emissions. Students and … Read more
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Turning Trash into Treasure: UNH and MSC to Power Campuses with Methane
Smelly landfills and cow pies hardly look like fuel. Yet these odiferous offenders hide a secret within their stink. Schools such as the University of New Hampshire and Morrisville State … Read more
Faith Offers Its Own Justification for Climate Action on Campus
Among students and faculty at Eastern Nazarene College, the existence of global climate change has long remained in dispute and environmental activism has been largely absent from the small Christian … Read more
Is Online Learning Better for the Planet?
As a way of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, online learning may be one of the most unexploited means of achieving a smaller carbon footprint. Though few traditional colleges and universities … Read more
Waxman-Markey’s Renewable Energy Standard: Tough Enough?
I’m one of the contributors over at the National Journal’s Energy & Environment Experts Blog. Here’s the question posed today: Does the [Waxman-Markey] proposal go far enough to promote the … Read more
CWRU to Experiment with Freshwater Turbine
In Case Western Reserve University’s (CWRU) home state of Ohio, “Coal is like pennies,” says Linda Robson, Case Western’s campus planning and operations research fellow for energy studies. In a … Read more
St. Thomas University Prepares Lawyers to Take on Environmental Issues
A small but steadily growing legal discipline is training lawyers to defend one of the world’s most underrepresented clients: the environment. Though several law schools have added legal certificates or … Read more
Canvassing the Climate: Art Takes Its Own Approach to Science
Collaboration is the new black these days, as diverse individuals and departments at a variety of educational institutions come together on issues of climate change. The results are innovative, striking, … Read more
Community Colleges Step Up to Train Clean Energy Workers
(Ed. Note: portions of this article were originally published at WorldChanging) As unemployment numbers continue to creep up and universities make ever more draconian budget cuts, it may be surprising … Read more
Five Questions: What’s Happening on the International Environmental Education Scene?
Debra Rowe, president of the U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development, answers 5 questions from us on the latest trends in international education for sustainability: CE: You just got … Read more
