The below article is from our friend Walter Simpson, the recently retired Energy Officer at the University of Buffalo.
On a busy campus, raising energy and environmental awareness can be difficult. It becomes a challenge to find effective ways of getting the message out there and getting attention when so much else is going on.Over the [...]

Bloomberg.com reported last Thursday that " Energy costs for U.S. colleges and universities soared 14 percent in the 12 months ending June 30, putting pressure on institutions with limited means of raising revenue". (Energy Costs Soar 14% in Year for U.S Universities). 
Here’s a question to campuses - Has your campus been active in conservation [...]

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 [...]

In late December, the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 was signed into law. The Act included language introduced by Senator Bernie Sanders (VT) that authorizes $250 million annually in grants and another $500 million in direct loans for renewable energy and energy efficiency projects at higher education institutions, public schools, or local governments. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

AASHE is working on building a catalog of high quality, campus sustainability-related photos that it can provide to reporters and AASHE members for use in publications, websites and other promotional materials. Ultimately, we want to open the catalog so that AASHE members can get exposure for their efforts by uploading their own photos. [...]