Courtesy of Arizona State University News Governet, innovators of technology solutions for higher education institutions, announced today that Arizona State University, renowned for its academic leadership and achievements in sustainability, will adopt CurricUNET Meta, the award-winning online curriculum management system as part of its ongoing effort to reduce paper consumption and save resources. Currently serving [...]

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Courtesy of The University of British Columbia University of British Columbia researchers have invented a safe, efficient technology to wirelessly charge electric vehicles using “remote magnetic gears” – and successfully tested it on campus service vehicles. “Wireless charging has been a much sought-after technical solution for everything from cell phones to electric cars,” says UBC [...]

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Courtesy of The University of British Columbia Today, the University of British Columbia officially opened a pioneering $34-million clean energy facility, making it Canada’s first university – and one of a few institutions worldwide – to produce both clean heat and electricity for its campus from renewable bioenergy. UBC’s Bioenergy Research and Demonstration Facility (BRDF) [...]

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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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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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This year, students from hundreds of colleges and universities can feel even better about their commencement ceremonies as they don graduation gowns made from post-consumer plastic water bottles. University of Houston, University of Michigan, Syracuse University, Johns Hopkins University, Boston University, Unity College, Caltech and Providence College are just a few of the educational institutions [...]

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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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College textbooks are expensive. College officials, interested in helping to reduce the costs of textbooks for students, are looking at e-textbooks as a potential solution. Five universities: Cornell University, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Minnesota, the University of Virginia and the University of Wisconsin, recently announced plans for a pilot program [...]

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By Cathy Cockrell, UC Berkeley NewsCenter Berkeley students are wrapping up an intensive two-month recycling and waste-reduction blitz, spurred by the campus’s first-time participation in RecycleMania. The spirited yet “friendly” contest — involving colleges and universities across the U.S. and Canada — takes place over an eight-week period each spring, as students compete to lower [...]

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Bottled water has been kicked-off campus by ten Canadian post-secondary schools as an initiative to protect public water.  Students, staff and faculty have demanded an end to the sale of privatized bottled water on Canadian campuses and are asking college and university administrations to promote investment in accessible public water infrastructure instead. On March 15, [...]

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