Tag: Universities - Page 3
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Greenest Colleges: Did Your School Make the Grade?
For the third year in a row my organization's magazine, SIERRA, did what amounts to a senior thesis by researching and reporting which colleges and universities get an A (or an F) for their eco-friendliness. We call it the
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Students Get 568 Km Per Liter, Hope For More
Sakarya University students with their hydrogen-powered car. Photo via SAİTEM. Gas prices in Turkey are among the highest -- if not the highest -- in the world, a fact I was rudely awakened to last summer when some friends and I rented a car to drive
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Rice Husk Insulation To Make Fridges 50% More Efficient
Your next refrigerator might be sheathed in renewable rice, if a team of students from the University of Michigan have anything to do with it. With just 12.5mm (half inch of rice husk ash they reckon they can achieve the equivalent of over 100mm (4
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Power Shift: Australia's National Youth Climate Summit Is Coming Soon
The Australian Youth Climate Coalition is on a mission: to build a generation-wide movement to solve the climate crisis, through uniting diverse youth organisations around this common challenge.
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7 Out of 10 College Bound Students, Prefer Green Universities
A Recent Princeton Review survey shows that most college applicants today are becoming increasingly interested in how green their prospective universities are. Of these statistics, 68 percent of the students surveyed admitted that
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Oysters are Restored to Waters in Need
During the last weekend in April, a group of volunteers laid the final necessary pieces into Withers Estuary to reintroduce oysters to their native ecosystem. The project is part of the Withers Estuary Community Collaborative
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NYU Encourages Dorms to "Switch Off" for the Environment
Here's a shout-out to my alma mater (go Violets!): New York University is giving it up for Earth Day 2009 with its second annual residence-hall energy-reduction challenge.
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Using Earthshine to Find Planets Similar to Ours
By studying how our land and waters reflect light onto the dark side of the moon, scientists think they'll be able to find planets with similar compositions to ours based on the reflections bouncing off of
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James Hansen and Columbia U Hold 350 Conference
On May 2, 2009, The Earth Institute at Columbia University, the MA students in Columbia's Climate and Society Masters Program and Dr. James Hansen will host their first 350 Conference focusing specifically on the idea that we have
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Alive and "Growing" Electric Power Poles in Rural Honduras
With the cost of cement electric power poles and
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Knowledge Gap of How We 'Fit In' is Greatest Threat to Environment
We know that trees can increase the thickness of clouds with terpenes, and lizards can drink water from wet sand with their feet, but we have very little understanding of how we fit into the environment and how the environment
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Rensselaer Students Naples and Zummo Reinvent Wobo
Rensselaer Polytechnic students Peter Zummo and Matthew Naples have developed a modern version of Heineken's Wobo (world bottle-here in TreeHugger and more detail in Inhabitat) of 45 years ago; a plastic bottle that can be filled with
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Largest University Science Center Meeting LEED Platinum Standards Opens
St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, has long attracted students to natural sciences and math with the quality of programs and excellent faculty. The campus was never shabby either, but now St. Olaf has outdone itself with a new science and math
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Two Universities Taking the Initiative to Reduce Their Carbon Footprint
Good news travels in pairs and today we have two stories from two separate universities who have taken the steps to reduce their carbon footprint through various program initiatives. The first
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From the Forums: Going Green in College
What else can we do? Solidus suggests: Don't eat animal products/eat less animal
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Review: The Encyclopedia of Earth
When I first got my reviewers copy of the Encyclopedia of Earth, I thought, what a dumb idea, nobody uses encyclopedia anymore with Wikipedia or Google around. In fact, there already is an online version with the same name. Why bother?
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Rare Plant Thought Extinct Re-discovered in Upstate New York
A salt-marsh plant thought to have vanished from upstate New York is back. But it has not come back to the inland salt marshes, of which only four remain (three in New York and one in Michigan). Rather, the
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Green Student Design Challenges Status Quo at SRD Change 08 Exhibition
If profound statements are said to issue from the mouths of babes, then it may be that important and significant innovation springs forth from the pens and computer mice of design students. At least that is the view of the Society for Responsible
