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 [...]

The lead story in this week’s AASHE Bulletin is about an exciting piece of legislation from North Carolina requiring all new construction by public entities - including state colleges and universities - to meet high standards of energy and water efficiency. Sustainability is often described as going “beyond compliance” so it will be interesting [...]

The big stories from this week’s AASHE Bulletin are the feature articles on campus sustainability in the special reports on higher ed in both Newsweek and Time Magazine. Talk about mainstream acceptance! Millions of prospective students, parents, higher education administrators, and others will be reading these magazines and learning about campus sustainability. [...]

I gave Warren Wilson College’s emissions reduction partnership with Asheville first billing in this week’s AASHE Bulletin because partnerships between cities that have signed the US Mayors Climate Protection Agreement and campuses that have signed the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment (ACUPCC) seem so logical but this is the first such partnership that [...]

I had a conversation recently with Carol Welch from the Millennium Campaign about a campus rating system of sorts they are developing that I think readers of this blog will find interesting.
First, a bit of background: Millennium Declaration was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 2000. The Declaration established 8 [...]

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, [...]