The Higher Education Sustainability Act (HESA) has taken another major step forward. On November 9, House Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller unveiled the College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2007 (HR 4137), which reauthorizes the Higher Education Act. At the request of many of the 17 co-sponsors of HESA, Chairman Miller […]

AASHE is pleased to announce the completed Guide to Developing a Sustainable Food Purchasing Policy. You may download the guide and view related policy examples on the companion web site www.sustainablefoodpolicy.org.
This document is a product of the Sustainable Food Policy Project, which was initiated in 2006 by the partners below to support efforts by […]

Building Design + Construction recently released their Green Building Research White Paper (the fifth in a series of annual reports on the green building movement). The October 2007 white paper looks at the Green Building sector through 12 research studies of building owners, facility directors, and end users in key sectors: healthcare, corporate offices, […]

Two years ago, I wrote the below article for the Sustainability@Duke website. Most of the ideas in that article are still valid, but many of the links have gone bad, so I’m re-posting it here with new links and a few additional edits. Another advantage of reposting it here is that this site has […]

 
Great news! Yesterday (Nov 15) the House Education and Labor Committee unanimously approved a five-year reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, which contains in its entirety the Higher Education Sustainability Act (HESA).
Through a competitive grant program, HESA promotes multidisciplinary education, research, and outreach programs that address environmental, social, and economic dimensions of sustainability. It […]

Congratulations to researchers at Pennsylvania State University who recently announced they have discovered a way to convert cellulose into hydrogen with a 288% return on energy input! This could be a huge development in the move to a hydrogen economy given that splitting natural gas was previously the only economical way to derive hydrogen.
Hydrogen […]

 
I’d like to share with all of you this video that a friend of mine recently found on You Tube. It is a proposal to solve the global climate change problem with fog. If you can’t see the video, click here.

The two men in the video have designed a boat that will shoot […]

An absolutely phenomenal thing happened earlier this month: The University of Idaho gave the higher education world a blueprint for ridding campus post offices of junk mail. Please run with it! Students, faculty, staff, everyone spread it as fast as you can!
On Nov 2 the University of Idaho announced that it will stop […]

A partnership between the American College & Universities Presidents Climate Commitment and the Clinton Foundation was announced yesterday at the US Green Building Councils conference, GreenBuild. In his keynote address (archived on the Greenbuild365.org site) President Clinton discussed a variety of initiatives his foundation is taking to support a greener world. The announcement is already […]

The November/December issue of Sierra Magazine, which is published by the Sierra Club, features several articles about the sustainability movement in higher education:

Jennifer Hattman introduces the campus sustainability trend in her article Go Big Green.
The magazine introduces its first-ever list of top ten green schools in 10 that Get It.
Talk of the Quad presents […]