Twenty prominent higher education associations, including AASHE, have endorsed HESA to date. This is greatly helping to attract Congressional attention to the bill. But only ten individual schools are on the list (see below). We have only two weeks left to build support - and we’ll need more co-sponsors than we have now to get HESA passed. Please try to get your school to endorse HESA, and most importantly, contact your Representative and Senators as soon as possible to ask them to co-sponsor HESA.

Georges Dyer and Michelle McKay from Second Nature gave an interview about the American Colleges & Universities Presidents Climate Commitment for the SeventhGeneration YouTube Channel check it out: If you cannot view it below click here.

Cheers to the hundreds of campuses across the globe that celebrated Campus Sustainability Day last week! This post presents a sampling of how different campuses participated in the event.

AASHE is looking for motivated schools to pilot the first ever community-developed campus sustainability rating system.

Sustainable Endowments Institute (SEI) released its 2008 College Sustainability Report Card today to great fanfare. The report grades the sustainability performance of the 200 campuses with the largest endowments. Letter grades are assigned in 8 categories: Administration, Climate Change & Energy, Food & Recycling, Green Building, Transportation, Endowment Transparency, Investment Priorities, and Shareholder […]

While rising sea levels are the talk of the international media, newspapers in my part of this country (NC) has been talking non-stop about falling water levels. Our reservoirs look like pastures cut by meandering streams (literally!) as one of the worst droughts on record persists. (Fortunately, we got some rainfall this morning, […]

As most of you avid Campus Sustainability Perspectives readers already know, AASHE attended the University of Kentucky’s “Big Blue Goes Green” Sustainability Showcase on Wednesday. The sessions at the event were all fascinating and enjoyable, but my favorite part was speaking with the display representatives.
After a few conversations, I quickly realized that UK is truly […]

The Lexington AASHE staff took a day this week (October 17) to attend the University of Kentucky’s “Big Blue Goes Green” conference. As an AASHE staff member I know about all kinds of efforts and initiatives in sustainability on campuses all over North America, but I didn’t know a lot about many of the […]

This past Wednesday AASHE participated in the first “Sustainability Showcase” at the University of Kentucky. UK, as the flagship public institution in the state is also a recent AASHE member. Organized by UK’s Facilities Management, Residence Life recycling Program, UK Student Center, the UK Bookstore, UK Tracy Center for the Environment and WRFL 88.1 the […]

In case you missed it, let me tell you about a phenomenal event that the United Nations Environmental Programme pulled off on October 15th. They organized the first ever “Blog Action Day.” The goal of Blog Action Day is simple: ask every blogger in the world to write a post about the same […]