I’ve recently finished reading Daniel Kemmis’ Community and the Politics of Place.  He offers a very good discussion of civic virtue and how our society has wandered away from being an engaged public, promoting, defending and being stewards of the places in which we live.  (This whole issue of civic virtue seems to be conspicuously […]

Going somewhere this holiday season? Have a few empty seats in the car? Here’s my suggestion: offer a ride using the Carpool application on Facebook.
The Carpool application on Facebook is a ride-share program that allows you to view profiles of riders and drivers before you decide to carpool with them. It helps to alleviate the […]

An article in last week’s Chronicle of Higher Education shows that a major reason for not signing the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment (ACUPCC) is concern that it isn’t achievable. The article says, “Most of the nonsigning colleges contacted by The Chronicle doubt that the ultimate goal of the commitment — climate […]

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A brilliant short video has come out online that I’d highly recommend…
The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns, with a special focus on the United States. All the stuff in our lives, beginning from the extraction of the resources to […]

At the 2007 GreenBuild Expo, President Clinton announced a number of impressive programs that his Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI) has undertaken. The speech also served as the opportunity to announce yet another initiative: a partnership between CCI and the ACUPCC to help colleges and universities meet the ACUPCC targets. The partnership includes access […]

Many people have been asking Judy or me about the difference between the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment, and Rating System (STARS) that AASHE is developing and the Sustainable Endowments Institute’s College Sustainability Report Card. To help respond to these questions, we worked with our friend Mark at SEI to produce the table below comparing key features […]

As you may know, AASHE has involved the higher education community in a collaborative process to develop an assessment and self-evaluation tool for campuses to rate their sustainability efforts, with the goal of providing a usable, comprehensive measurement of success for sustainability in higher education. The project is called STARS (Sustainability Tracking, Assessment, and Rating […]

Presidents who signed onto the ACUPCC by September 15, 2007 (”Charter Signatories”) are required to submit a report outlining the form of their institutional structures for climate action plan development, and which of the two or more tangible actions to reduce greenhouse gases they intend to take or have already taken. The reports continue to […]

If your school is planning for a future in which carbon emissions are regulated and restricted (which it should be!), then you will want to understand what may be coming down the pipe as far as legislation goes. This quick guide to carbon policy solutions can help!