Tag: Universities - Page 4
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How to Go Green: Back to School Guide, Olive Oil Mashed Potatoes and 5 Eco-Event Tips
:: Beat the back to school blues with a splash of green! Consult our How to Go Green: Back to School guide.
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Green College Rankings Now Available From The Princeton Review
Just in time for the next round of college applications, the Princeton Review announced its latest round of college ranking guides, but this year the guides will include a green ranking of universities, among the other rankings like
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Big LED Breakthrough at Purdue University Could Change the World
Update: Breakthrough: Regular Light Bulb Made Super-Efficient with Laser (!) Better, Cheaper LEDs The incandescent lightbulb that wastes 90% of the electricity as heat is dying, we all know that. But a new breakthrough in solid state lighting might also
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Architectural Innovation and Energy Savings Could Result from Super-insulator Breakthrough
Aerogel was invented in 1931. But at $3000 per kilogram, it's use has been limited to visionary projects and unique structural applications like reinforcement of tennis raquets. But that could change soon.
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Factory Green - Organic Clothing For College Students By College Students
Factory Green, a new online eco-store, run by pre-med college students Jack Short and Daniel Lyons at the University of Missouri in their "free time." The store is full of men's and women's tees designed by fellow college students and geared
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Yale Researcher Challenges Traditional Role of Predators
"Revolutionary." That is the word Oswald Schmitz, Oastler Professor of Population and Community Ecology at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, uses to describe the conclusions of research into how predators influence ecosystems.
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"Re-Furnished" Recycled Cardboard Chairs from University of Idaho Student Designers
TreeHugger loves to see green student design (and we want to see more!); since they'll be designing the next generation of products we use, the greener they can be, the better. These examples are from a project called "Re-Furnished" from the University
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Climate Versus Economy: Yale Model Allows You to Decide
If you live in a democracy, then your vote helps to decide how politicians should act to curb carbon dioxide emissions and achieve energy independence. But how can the average voter make sense of it all? The IPCC says we must act now or we miss the
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Nuclear Waste Clean-up Breakthrough
Climate crisis. While alternative energy options grow, the nuclear option is also back on the table. In spite of the complexities of permitting, hazards of nuclear energy and challenges that the investment and construction timelines pose in the race
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Can an Electric Car Catch a Cold from a Battery Virus?
Any reader of these pages knows that batteries are key to the future of alternative energies. Light, high energy batteries to power electric cars. Cost effective batteries to store solar power at night or wind power when the air
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He Raise Your Head
Silencio.
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Al Gore to Collect a Cool $1 Million Prize at Tel Aviv University
It just goes to show you how much the environment has become a sign of the times. Al Gore is set to fly into Israel in May to collect a cool $1 million dollar cash award presented by the Dan David Foundation, housed at Tel Aviv University.
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UPDATE: Bleed Blue, Live Green T-Shirts Now Available
Our readers got so excited about Duke University’s Men’s Basketball Team’s efforts to Bleed Blue, Live Green that we posted on them twice. Now, thanks to tipsters Sasha and Anonymous, we are pleased to announce that the University has decided to sell the
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Shake Your Money Maker and Power Your iPod
Brace yourself — ever dream of becoming the Bionic Man or Woman? Well now's your chance to feel like Steve Austin or Jamie Sommers. Researchers from Simon Fraser University and the University of Michigan have invented a knee brace that generates
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Bleed Blue, Live Green - The Video
When we reported on Duke fans bleeding blue, but living green, the post kicked up quite a frenzy among people wanting one of the t-shirts. We’ve contacted Duke but have yet to find out where folks can get hold of these sought after garments. However,
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Bleed Blue, Live Green: Duke vs. Climate Change
Anyone who knows anything about fans of Duke University's basketball team knows that they don't give up their blue shirts easily. It is a measure of how seriously people are taking climate change then, that Thursday night's game against NC State
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Soil Health: You Can Help
Franklin D. Roosevelt said, "The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself." Our civilization depends on the fertility of soil, yet soil scientist Daniel Richter says the soils of the world have been so changed by humans that it is now
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Thousands of U.S. Schools, Colleges, and Universities Set for Teach-In to Focus Nation on Global Warming
As the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Ramachandra Pauchauri puts it, "What we do in the next two or three years will determine the future of our planet."
