Dedee DeLongpre-Johnston, University of Florida Office of Sustainability
The University of Florida Office of Sustainability used the Puget Sound Campus Sustainability Project model to “envision success” and “empower action.” At the time, UF had taken care of all of the “low hanging fruit” initiatives, and didn’t know what the next step would be. This […]

Linda Robson, Case Western University
Nathan Engstrom, Oberlin College
So you want to green your campus, but you don’t know how or where to get started. Here’s some background work to help you get thinking in the right direction:
Find the stories your campus has to tell
Institutional history: where have we come from and what is our […]

Bonny Bentzin and Arianne Peterson, Manager and Project Coordinator respectively of University Sustainable Business Projects at Arizona State University, presented on their Campus Living Laboratory Network (CLLN, pronounced “clean”) model - which is a way to break down on-campus barriers and allow students, faculty, and staff to implement their sustainability ideas. It allows students, […]

Mike Tidewell is founder and director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN), and an author. His newest book, focusing on Katrina and global warming, is titled The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America’s Coastal Cities.
Mike started his talk expressing his excitement in the change he has seen in […]

Walter Simpson, Energy Officer & Director of the UB Green Office - University of Buffalo
“Recipes for a Successful Program”
Walter began his presentation with a reality check: Energy is the MOST significant campus environmental impact and we must meet the challenge of  combating global climate change. Walter referenced a quote from James Hansen (NASA Goddard […]

For the first time in its 3 years of conferences, the Smart and Sustainable Campuses Conference is carbon neutral. Firstly, the conference planning committee took as many steps as possible to reduce the conference’s carbon footprint. Here’s how:
Conference Materials:
The program was printed on 25% post consumer waste paper by an FSC printer, signs […]

Tuesday, April 1st Hoff Theater - Terry Tamminen, Cabinet Secretary, Chief Policy Advisor to the Governor of California
Terry began by contrasting two cultures that illustrate examples of sustainable development and unsustainable development: the lessons learned from the Hopi Indians in Arizona that exemplify sustainable living (never losing sight of the interconnectedness of each […]

The 2008 Smart and Sustainable Campuses Conference kicked off this evening at the University of Maryland at College Park. Matt and I drove up from Lexington yesterday, Andrea came in on Saturday and Judy and Julian both arrived last week for meetings with the Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium (HEASC) and the Disciplinary Associations Network […]

Attention all Basketball Fans!!!!!
If you’re a fan of a clean energy future, you can root for the 22 schools in the men’s tournament that have already signed the Presidents Climate Commitment to go climate neutral. Find out which teams are green, which are not, and follow our green Cinderella’s to victory (four of the last […]

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 […]