The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is launching a new design competition called the Campus RainWorks Challenge to encourage student teams on college and university campuses across the country to develop innovative approaches to stormwater management. Stormwater is a major cause of water pollution in urban areas in the U.S., impacting the health of people [...]

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The European Environment Agency (EEA) Generation ’92 Video Competition asked young people across Europe to submit a short video depicting their idea of a sustainable future. Enjoy these winning videos: First Prize: Every Problem Has A Solution by Sorin Vestemean of Romania Second Prize: Bud by Ana-Maria Lemnaru Third Prize: Sustainability Visions by Geisler Krogsgaard of [...]

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National Wildlife Federation’s Campus Ecology Program collaborated with Lucid Design Group, Inc, United States Green Building Council and the Alliance to Save Energy to create The Campus Conservation Nationals (CCN). CCN is a nationwide resource-use reduction competition which invited students, faculty and staff from college and university campuses to attain the greatest electricity and water [...]

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By G. Rendell That’s not the amount of CO2 you emit each and every day, but it might just be the amount you’re responsible for. One of the challenges with getting people (including, but by no means limited to, students) to really believe in the impact of greenhouse gases is that the one everybody talks [...]

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From the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences 50-Year Model Suggests Regional Pollution Obscured a Global Trend Climate scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have discovered that particulate pollution in the late 20th century created a “warming hole” over the eastern United States—that is, a cold patch where the [...]

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Courtesy of A&M University Tamu Times Algae, tobacco, the food scraps from a discarded cafeteria tray — they may seem like an unlikely club, but all of these items are playing major roles in the world’s hunt for suitable alternative fuels. The earth’s supply of fossil fuel continues to diminish and oil prices are skyrocketing. [...]

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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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In this Changing Times segment from the University of California Irvine Media Center, Dr. Bill Cooper interviews controversial and passionate wildlife activist Paul Watson, founder of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, and Co-Founding Director of Greenpeace Foundation. To view the video click on Read More Tweet

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