I guess I’ve always known that there are serious problems out there in the world. I remember hearing about people starving in Ethiopia when I was younger. I remember the South Park episode with starving Ethiopians. I remember the jokes that were made in school about Ethiopia by both myself and others. We weren’t laughing [...]

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Fractals are geometric patterns that can be reduced to smaller and smaller parts, each one a perfect (although reduced) copy of the whole; they are infinitely complex and all around us. Fractals have a unique property known as self-similarity. This can be seen in the most basic and obvious fractal: a tree. The patterns of [...]

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I have recently developed a burning desire to get more in touch with the California terrestrial landscape and learn how to work with soil – in particular to grow organically and clean up food systems. To fulfill that desire, I spent time at the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center (OAEC) in the beginning of September [...]

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This year’s Solar Decathlon, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy featured 19 competing colleges from five countries and four continents with the University of Maryland team taking first place for the design, building, and operating of the most cost effective, energy efficient and attractive solar powered house. Maryland’s structure went beyond solar in making [...]

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Last winter I had a last minute opportunity to study in Southeast Asia. The specific program was called “The Thailand Project” offered by Wildlands Studies which is an affiliate of California State University Monterey Bay Extended Education.  Our assignment – to study cultural diversity and research coral reef ecosystems along the coasts of Thailand and Malaysia. [...]

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  Where will it Bee? Go to Your Garden Show for the first-ever, free online “town hall” event broadcasting live to a worldwide audience to shed light on the plight of disappearing bee populations. When will it Bee? On July 16th, from 9 am to 9 pm (US Pacific time) Who will Bee there? The [...]

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  2011 is the International Year of Chemistry and marks the 20th anniversary of the Environmental Protection Agency’s efforts toward the creation of green chemistry.  On June 20, the recipients of this year’s Green Chemistry Challenge Awards were announced in Washington, D.C. A university research group from the University of California, Santa Barbara led by  Bruce [...]

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Two weeks ago the main hall at the Institute of Political Studies (IEP) in Paris was the scene of a peculiar gathering of professionals and government delegates. Although the elite establishment is by no means unfamiliar with hosting foreign diplomats, this time they were of a different breed; 160 of its own students took on [...]

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By G. Rendell – Originally published on the Getting to Green blog at Inside Higher Ed A lot of the people I talk to use the words “green” and “sustainable” interchangeably. If I’m tired, occasionally I do it myself. But the difference between the two is significant. One’s subjective and relatively easy (although hardly the [...]

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Green Job Search Advice: How to Maximize Your Opportunities Renewable Energy World – Paul Grana Getting a job in the clean energy industry (or, in my experience, the solar industry) isn’t necessarily easy. Most technology-heavy firms tend to have one or two business people for every dozen engineers. So in the interest of helping out [...]

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