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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After watching this informative video, by the World Wildlife Fund, you may think differently about your t-shirt! Tweet

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The manner in which people perceive their relationship with nature varies both by time and geographic location. In a temporal sense, the paradigm that a specific culture is asphyxiated with is most often a direct product of the socio-economic standards at that particular time. Shanghai wasn’t always skyrise hotels and mass produced everything – there [...]

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By Tom Ventsias University of Maryland Campus News What’s driving environmentally friendly legislation and “green” activism in the United States? Nobel prizewinner Al Gore and senior members of Congress, or your neighbor digging dirt in a community garden? A University of Maryland sociologist is conducting research in the hallways of Congress, the offices of top [...]

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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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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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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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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction, it’s just a law of nature. In nature, balance is everything. All systems, regardless of scale, exist in a state of dynamic equilibrium. Molecules react, neurons fire and planets turn all in an effort to achieve balance. Ecosystems, in all their variation, diversity and interdependency, operate in [...]

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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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I’m Jessi, and this is my suitcase. But before I show you what I’ve got inside, I’m going to make a very public confession, and that is: I’m outfit obsessed…but I don’t buy anything new. Jesse Arrington Other ways to green your wardrobe Tweet

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