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 […]

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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 […]

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!

Two years ago, I wrote the below article for the Sustainability@Duke website. Most of the ideas in that article are still valid, but many of the links have gone bad, so I’m re-posting it here with new links and a few additional edits. Another advantage of reposting it here is that this site has […]

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 […]

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 November/December issue of Sierra Magazine, which is published by the Sierra Club, features several articles about the sustainability movement in higher education:

Jennifer Hattman introduces the campus sustainability trend in her article Go Big Green.
The magazine introduces its first-ever list of top ten green schools in 10 that Get It.
Talk of the Quad presents […]

Photos and a little bit of commentary from the events on Capitol Hill today. Watch out politicians! These students mean business!