Cap and Trade! 80% by 2050! Carbon Taxes! The polluter pays!
Climate change and subsequently lowering GHG emissions is becoming the major topic of discussion; the presidential candidates are talking about it, college and university presidents are doing something about it, students are winning campaigns to get their campuses to embrace clean energy, and Europe already […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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!

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 […]

In a spoof of carbon offseting, a couple of wise-guy British lads created a website called CheatNeutral.com where individuals prone to infidelity can go and pay someone else to be faithful, thus, not increasing the total amount of heartbreak in the world.
(Now, if we could just get a hard cap on the amount of heartbreak […]

This week, as the number of signatories to the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment sailed past 400, I thought it might be of interest to share some basic statistics about the signatories.
The ACUPCC signatories serve about 17% of the college students in America. They come all over the country, with signatories coming […]