Colleges and universities love a good rivalry with another school, whether competing in academics, sports, best food, or prettiest campus — and now, energy and resource savings. Add school pride and innate love of competition to students’ desire to make the world a better place and you get over 40 schools participating in the first ever Campus Conservation Nationals! Read more
Conservation
Tar Balls Continue Washing Ashore in Florida
Nearly seven months after the Deepwater Horizon explosion, oil continues to soil Escambia County’s white sand. Read more
This Veterans Day, Consider The Consequences Of Our Oil Dependence
Tomorrow, on Veterans Day, I want us to renew the fight for climate and energy action. I intend the above cartoon as a tongue-in-cheek tribute to full-throttle calls to arms … Read more
Symposium Looks to Alert Policy Makers to Impacts from Gulf Oil Disaster
The old rock tune goes something like “you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone.” That’s also a common problem in nature, especially after a traumatic blow to an … Read more
NASA and Eco-Schools USA Day 3 – Pathways to Success
Success! On our final day at the NASA Goddard Visitor Center, we brought all the pieces together about what everyone had learned at the inaugural Climate Change Connections (CCC) professional development institute. Read more
We’ve Got A Fever, And The Only Prescription Is Less Climate Change
Discover Magazine’s cover story for the month of December—which I received yesterday, presumably because I’m some kind of fancy postal service VIP—feels like a Halloween holdover. Scary CGI mosquito, backlit … Read more
New Report Offers Strategies for Smart Growth in Rural Communities
The International City/County Management Association (ICMA) has released a new report, “Putting Smart Growth to Work in Rural Communities,” which focuses on how to adapt smart growth strategies to rural … Read more
