In a spoof of carbon offseting, a couple of wise-guy British lads created a website called CheatNeutral.com where individuals prone to infidelity can go and pay someone else to be faithful, thus, not increasing the total amount of heartbreak in the world.
(Now, if we could just get a hard cap on the amount of heartbreak […]

In my last post I announced the great news that the Higher Education Sustainability Act (HESA) was reintroduced in the House of Representatives by Congressmen Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Vernon Ehlers (R-MI), Rick Boucher (D-PA), and David Wu (D-OR). In this post I’ll let you know how you can help. But first a […]

An article in the New Republic, “A Manifesto for a New Environmentalisms” argues that regulation, while necessary, is not the solution to climate change. Rather than imposing limitations, as regulation generally does, it is most productive to unleash possibilities. For instance, the author states that academic programs in new energy sciences; post-graduate fellowships […]

Hello all you faithful bloggers. My name is Andrea Webster and I am the latest addition to the AASHE staff. I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself to all of you. In order to cover the bases, here is my bio that was recently posted on the AASHE website: http://www.aashe.net/about/andrea.php
The […]

On September 25, 2007, Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore) and Congressman Vernon Ehlers (R-MI) introduced the Higher Education Sustainability Act of 2007, H.R. 3637, which would authorize a $50 million competitive grant program to universities and institutions of higher education to develop, implement and evaluate sustainability curriculums, practices and academic programs. This is great news for […]

This is the kind of research I love to see higher education producing. Bryan Pijanowski of Purdue University lead a study that used aerial photographs to confirm yet another reason why planning cities around cars is pure lunacy…
Looking at one county in Indiana, the study found that there were 3 times as many parking […]

Ah Canada, a piece of my heart is still there. I visited British Columbia for the first time 4 weeks ago flying into Vancouver on my way north to Squamish, (a beautiful town sitting between the Howe Sound and the massive granite monolith “The Chief”). I spent 10 days camping and rock climbing enjoying beautiful […]

I attended the first Bike Summit to be held in Lexington, KY on Friday and thought the format and the people it was able to attract made it a worthwhile event that other campuses could potentially benefit from. The stated goal of the summit was to, “…bring together citizens and government and community leaders to develop […]

This week, as the number of signatories to the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment sailed past 400, I thought it might be of interest to share some basic statistics about the signatories.
The ACUPCC signatories serve about 17% of the college students in America. They come all over the country, with signatories coming […]

I read a thought provoking article written by Stanley Ned Rosenbaum, PhD who is an adjunct professor of Hebrew at the University of Kentucky and a professor emeritus of Judaic Studies at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Penn. He commented on Elizabeth Edward’s observation that her family might have to do without tangerines because it […]