Courtesy of Penn State University Live Turns out, watching ants is actually pretty entertaining, according to Spencer Malloy. Good thing for him, because it was one of the most important parts of his job last summer. The Penn State senior with a double major in agroecology and philosophy recently completed an internship at the University [...]

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By Cole Parnell : Graphic Designer Shift Into Green Energy Independence was a student ad campaign I created while enrolled at Santa Barbara City College. My professor Liz Russotti gave us the assignment with an objective of creating a full-scale ad campaign for a good cause. The assignment included print work, 2 social media sites, a [...]

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By Cathy Cockrell, UC Berkeley NewsCenter When Jeff Benca moved to Berkeley last month, he came so loaded with valuables he had to rent a truck. Make that a cargo van, air-conditioned to accommodate its contents — thousands of plant starts, many of them incredibly rare and entirely new to cultivation, all of them members [...]

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Courtesy of the National Science Foundation Students from Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, New York and Washington were in Greenland this summer as part of the Joint Science Education Program, a cultural and scientific exchange between Denmark, Greenland and the United States, under the guidance of teachers from all three nations.     Tweet

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Courtesy of Tulane University Tulane University teams with Johnson & Wales University to unite doctors and chefs in improving the nation’s health. Tulane University School of Medicine and Johnson & Wales University announced a groundbreaking long-term collaboration that unites doctors and chefs in improving the nation’s health through the teaching of culinary medicine. For the [...]

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Courtesy of Earthshare Between 1998 and 2007, the green economy grew three times faster than the rest of the economy in the same period. Most of the job growth occurred in the renewable energy sector. Even during the recent recession, Brookings found that the clean economy outperformed the nation. Buffered somewhat through the recession and [...]

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World Environment Day Links Find a World Environment Day Activity in your part of the world. History of World Environment Day Tweet

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Press Release from the Biomimicry Institute Using the desert snail as inspiration for their design, a team of students from the Art Institute of Isfahan in Iran took the top honor in the third annual Biomimicry Student Design Challenge, organized by the Biomimicry 3.8 Institute. The team, consisting of master’s level and undergraduate students in [...]

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Biologist, author and entrepreneur, Janine Benyus discusses the emerging concept of biomimicry – the application of the elegant systems and adaptations of the natural world to solve problems in our built world. Entrepreneurs and innovators are shifting from learning about nature to learning from nature for answers to today’s pressing challenges. In her book, Biomimicry [...]

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From the National Science Foundation Bill Roberts, Professor of Aerospace Engineering at North Carolina State University, believes algae fuel will soon create an entirely new industry and thousands of new jobs. With support from the National Science Foundation, Roberts and his team are genetically modifying a specific strain of algae to produce drop-in replacements for [...]

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