Campus Sustainability Perspectives

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Archive for the 'Information Technology' Category

Buying “green” computers for your campus is easy

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007 by Sam Hummel

As a computer scientist by training, I’ve always been a little chagrined that tech equipment is so bad for the environment. From what I can tell, it’s clear now that investment in designing “green” computers is about to skyrocket:

Major data centers such as those run by Sun and IBM are starting to make environmental […]

What do you want to see in AASHE’s new site?

Monday, August 6th, 2007 by Sam Hummel

Behind the scenes, AASHE is working on a major upgrade to its data management and website. Our goal is to build on the content-focused services that AASHE is known for. AASHE prides itself on aggregating and organizing information about the campus sustainability movement into useful collections that are high quality, searchable and timely. […]

Using the Web to Promote Campus Sustainability

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007 by Sam Hummel

Here at AASHE we are working behind the scenes on a plan to overhaul our website in order to provide a more dynamic and community-oriented experience. More on that in a future post. At this time, I’d like to explore novel and creative ways that campuses or other organizations are using the web to promote […]

Stay Alert! Campus Sustainability is Moving Fast

Thursday, July 19th, 2007 by Sam Hummel

While the weekly AASHE Bulletin is undeniably the best way to keep tabs on the campus sustainability movement (naturally, I’m not biased at all), it cannot capture everything happening in this very broad and deep movement. Fortunately, there is a cool tool available to help you when you want to get even more news […]