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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Butte College’s 25,000 solar panels generate 6.5 million KWH of electricity, enough to power the campus and feed the excess back into the grid. California’s Butte College has become the first college in the United States to produce more electricity than it consumes — and it’s all clean, renewable, solar-generated energy. The result of a [...]

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Do you know the next great environmental leader? Greenpeace – Phil Radford Greenpeace is looking for the next generation of leaders in the environmental movement and we think that you just might know one of them. Every year students join us for an activist training called the Greenpeace Semester. The program combines classroom-style workshops with [...]

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6 Lessons the Climate Movement Can Learn from Dr. King’s Legacy It’s Getting Hot in Here – Ethan Nuss Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Smoke and Mirrors Inside Higher Ed Over the past few years, as the [...]

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With the goal of improving public understanding of environmental law and policy issues, Vermont Law School’s Environmental Law Center has launched its first annual Top 10 Environmental Watch List. These pivotal issues were chosen by environmental faculty and students from the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law who researched over 75 judicial, regulatory and legislative actions. [...]

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By Todd McLeish / URI The heat radiating off roadways has long been a factor in explaining why city temperatures are often considerably warmer than nearby suburban or rural areas. Now a team of URI Researchers (University of Rhode Island) is examining methods of harvesting that solar energy to melt ice, power streetlights, illuminate signs, [...]

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