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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

Last year, Duke Environmental Alliance commissioned me to make an instructional video about the Eco-Olympics, a dorm vs dorm waste, water, and energy reduction competition held at Duke each year. The goals of the project are explained in the first segment of the video, so I won’t elaborate on them here. But I […]

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 […]

The lead story in this week’s AASHE Bulletin is about an exciting piece of legislation from North Carolina requiring all new construction by public entities - including state colleges and universities - to meet high standards of energy and water efficiency. Sustainability is often described as going “beyond compliance” so it will be interesting […]

A humorous (if you aren’t the injured person) bit of ammo to add to any sales pitch for doing deconstruction rather than demolition the next time your school absolutely must raze (rather than reuse) an old structure. There are no 1,500 lb wrecking balls to endanger the public when a building is deconstructed. […]