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 […]

For many students textbooks are one item that while a necessity,  can create quite a bit of scorn- high prices, low sell-back value, new editions coming out each year creating the dismal cycle all over again while making buying used increasingly difficult.  There are examples of textbook exchange programs that seek to minimize costs and […]

Recyclemania began this week, January 27th to be more specific, with a record 400 schools participating!! Whewee! The competition started in 2001 with just 2 schools - Miami University (of Ohio) and Ohio University. Here’s a graph Recyclemania has posted on their website which shows participation and the number of pounds recycled […]

A brilliant short video has come out online that I’d highly recommend…
The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns, with a special focus on the United States. All the stuff in our lives, beginning from the extraction of the resources to […]

An absolutely phenomenal thing happened earlier this month: The University of Idaho gave the higher education world a blueprint for ridding campus post offices of junk mail. Please run with it! Students, faculty, staff, everyone spread it as fast as you can!
On Nov 2 the University of Idaho announced that it will stop […]

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 […]

Hello all you faithful bloggers. My name is Andrea Webster and I am the latest addition to the AASHE staff. I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself to all of you. In order to cover the bases, here is my bio that was recently posted on the AASHE website: http://www.aashe.net/about/andrea.php
The […]

The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Building & Grounds blog recently posted an interesting story about sustainable dining initiatives at Colby College. The post focuses on the sustainability efforts made as part of a recent renovation of one of Colby’s dining halls, including the use of computer-controlled ventilation equipment that runs only when it’s needed, […]

Around the turn of the new year I read an article about a group of friends in San Francisco who had made “a compact” the previous New Year to buy nothing new during all of 2006 (except food, health and safety items and underwear). They accidently kicked off a movement, with more than 8,000 […]