The 2008 Smart and Sustainable Campuses Conference kicked off this evening at the University of Maryland at College Park. Matt and I drove up from Lexington yesterday, Andrea came in on Saturday and Judy and Julian both arrived last week for meetings with the Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium (HEASC) and the Disciplinary Associations Network […]

Since many students sell their books back to the bookstore at the end of the semester, Kenny at TreeHugger wonders if it’s any greener to rent textbooks online than to buy books from the campus bookstore.
Energy Action Coalition’s Fossil Fool’s Day is tomorrow and on-campus pranks are already underway.
Xarissa at NWF’s Campus Ecology […]

Last Monday, NBC Nightly News included a segment on sustainability academic programs. The segment highlights Arizona State University’s School of Sustainability and SUNY Stony Brook Southampton College’s environmental studies major.

AASHE’s currently getting ready for this year’s Smart and Sustainable Campuses Conference at the University of Maryland, College Park, March 31 - April 2, 2008 and we are super excited!! If you’re planning on attending, I encourage you to come to our display table and chat with us. Niles, Judy, Julian, Matt […]

Attention all Basketball Fans!!!!!
If you’re a fan of a clean energy future, you can root for the 22 schools in the men’s tournament that have already signed the Presidents Climate Commitment to go climate neutral. Find out which teams are green, which are not, and follow our green Cinderella’s to victory (four of the last […]

Want to learn and share ideas about running dorm vs dorm sustainability competitions on college campuses? There is now a website and instructional video project dedicated to that purpose!
At long last, a video project that was initiated by students in Duke’s Environmental Alliance has arrived online in the form of a best practices sharing […]

The folks over at PaperClip Communications, an AASHE member business, are kindly offering a 10 percent discount to AASHE members on their recently released Campus Sustainability Whitepaper Series.
The series is comprised of 6 whitepapers:
Greening Your Events: How to Plan and Implement Sustainable Campus Events
Sustainable Campus Food Service Programs: From Little Changes to Large Initiatives That […]

The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) invites submissions of abstracts for its 2nd biennial conference - AASHE 2008:  Working  Together for Sustainability – On Campus and Beyond (Nov 9-11, 2008, Raleigh, NC).
AASHE 2008 offers an exciting and unique opportunity for every sector of higher education in the U.S. and Canada […]

Judy Walton, AASHE’s Acting Executive Director and I will be in DC this coming week to participate in the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC) presenting on STARS and the ACUPCC. AASHE is co-hosting the Official Side Event, “Renewable Energy Education and Workforce Development”. If you happen to be there come by and say hi! […]

Alright, here it is…
AASHE is sticking it’s toes in the podcasting waters. If you like this format and would like to see more podcasts, please let us know in the comments section below.

Here is an interview with Judy Walton and Julian Dautremont-Smith — two of the people that have helped bring the Sustainability […]

 

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