I don’t consider myself talented enough to call myself an artist.  But, I am an art lover.  I especially love art that is motivated by convictions or that delivers a message. 
I was walking through a local high school the other day and was thrilled by the beautiful murals painted in the hallways.  They promoted positive messages, […]

AASHE is working on building a catalog of high quality, campus sustainability-related photos that it can provide to reporters and AASHE members for use in publications, websites and other promotional materials. Ultimately, we want to open the catalog so that AASHE members can get exposure for their efforts by uploading their own photos. […]

The lead story in this week’s AASHE Bulletin is about an exciting piece of legislation from North Carolina requiring all new construction by public entities - including state colleges and universities - to meet high standards of energy and water efficiency. Sustainability is often described as going “beyond compliance” so it will be interesting […]

The big stories from this week’s AASHE Bulletin are the feature articles on campus sustainability in the special reports on higher ed in both Newsweek and Time Magazine. Talk about mainstream acceptance! Millions of prospective students, parents, higher education administrators, and others will be reading these magazines and learning about campus sustainability. […]

As a computer scientist by training, I’ve always been a little chagrined that tech equipment is so bad for the environment. From what I can tell, it’s clear now that investment in designing “green” computers is about to skyrocket:

Major data centers such as those run by Sun and IBM are starting to make environmental […]

Why do you do what you do?  If you are reading this blog, you are probably part of an elite team of people that are working very hard to bring ideas and practices of sustainability to your entire campus ethos.  Depending on your setting, you may be the team.  In either case, have you considered […]

Niles’ post, as well as my reading of David Orr (Earth in Mind) and Michael R. M’Gonigle, Justine Starke, and Briony Penn (Planet U) have inspired me to tell the tale of my latest efforts toward a more sustainable lifestyle. 
Next week my wife and I will celebrate 11 years of marriage.  With the exception of […]

I gave Warren Wilson College’s emissions reduction partnership with Asheville first billing in this week’s AASHE Bulletin because partnerships between cities that have signed the US Mayors Climate Protection Agreement and campuses that have signed the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment (ACUPCC) seem so logical but this is the first such partnership that […]

I had a conversation recently with Carol Welch from the Millennium Campaign about a campus rating system of sorts they are developing that I think readers of this blog will find interesting.
First, a bit of background: Millennium Declaration was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 2000. The Declaration established 8 […]

Behind the scenes, AASHE is working on a major upgrade to its data management and website. Our goal is to build on the content-focused services that AASHE is known for. AASHE prides itself on aggregating and organizing information about the campus sustainability movement into useful collections that are high quality, searchable and timely. […]