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
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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
Reusing: Better than Recycling
Every spring we see a rash of stories on end-of-the-semester cleanouts in dorms and student apartments. As students leave for the summer, dumpsters fill up with perfectly good lamps, textbooks, … 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
‘Trayless’ Trend Continues
This may only happen once, but we've scooped the New York Times. Today's article on trayless dining at universities is good, but nothing earth-shattering if you read ours (Students Have … Read more
Campuses Try Not to Waste the Waste
Imagine a future university dining hall that looks like a fancy brewery, adorned with large silver vats glistening behind thick glass windows, and every so often one can pick up … Read more
Riding the Rails to Carbon Neutrality
Light rail on campus promises many advantages: quicker and cheaper transportation for students and staff; enhanced opportunities for evening and weekend classes; and increased access to employment and community social … Read more
The Carbon-Paper Link: How Simple Choices Reduce Emissions
Gone are the days of pressing words through powdery sheets of black and red carbon paper. Yet the association of carbon to paper has perhaps never been more intimate than … Read more
Can an Ever-growing Campus Be Sustainable?
We're a little late to the party on this one, but last week's Chronicle of Higher Education feature on space planning and long-term sustainability is full of good stuff. The … Read more
