Since many students sell their books back to the bookstore at the end of the semester, Kenny at TreeHugger wonders if it’s any greener to rent textbooks online than to buy books from the campus bookstore.

Energy Action Coalition’s Fossil Fool’s Day is tomorrow and on-campus pranks are already underway.

Xarissa at NWF’s Campus Ecology blog discusses campus habitat restoration, including exciting initiatives at University of Washington Bothell and Cascadia Community College, University of Central Florida, and Oakton Community College.

San Diego State University’s Enviro-Business Society (e³) developed a neat map showing the ratio of trash receptacles to recycling containers on campus.

Over at Gristmill, Nathan Wyeth covers the Clinton Global Initiative University’s inaugural meeting.

Turtle Mountain Community College installs a new wind turbine.

Suzanne Savanick Hansen, Macalester College’s new sustainability coordinator, is interviewed for Macalester Talks, the college’s regular podcast series. In the podcast, Suzanne talks about her academic work on integrating sustainability into the curriculum, the growth in campus sustainability, where she expects to see Macalester in 20 years, and more. Listen here (mp3).

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