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In this week's episode, we discuss the whether the future of GMOs is ethical and if the Green Power Partnership will go the way of Energy Star.
by Joel Makower
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Considering their large electricity bills, could schools save money and improve children’s education by investing in net zero energy buildings?
by Kelly Vaughn
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Universities know green power is a good deal. They are also taking the lead because they have to: Their stakeholders demand it.
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We tend to think of colleges, and especially students, as our future -- not only the students themselves, the next generation of leaders, but the actual
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Recycling, reclaiming water and a solar-powered microgrid take the school to the top of Sierra magazine's rankings.
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Waco, Wichita, Louisville, Tucson, Sacramento and Portland, Maine, will receive sustainability help from Portland State University.<br />
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Universities are taking advantage of long-term power purchase agreements to boost renewable energy and shrink carbon footprints.
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One Harvard professor believes so. But first, they need new models for making inroads into challenging sustainability problems.
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As the world faces huge multidisciplinary sustainability challenges, many university sustainability programs remain part of a single discipline. Dow hopes its $10 million gift could help change that.
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The Princeton Review, Sierra Magazine, and the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education have teamed up to promote a new tool that makes it free and relatively easy for any education institution to report its environmental impacts.
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The electric vehicle manufacturing capacity springing up across the United States are serving as a multipler for creating new jobs -- but public perception hasn't caught up to reality. Here's how to make the sale on EVs' benefits.
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As smart grid technologies gain steam, utilities face challenges in retraining workers, but also opportunities through bringing in new employees more attuned to the concepts behind the smart grid.
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Research contracts between universities and the oil sector often fail to provide sufficient academic control and independence, a new report suggests.
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The Network for Business Sustainability, based at the University of Western Ontario in Canada, has as its mission bringing the most pressing questions on sustainability to the research agenda -- and feeding the results back into practice.
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Sierra magazine has released its annual list of the "Coolest Schools" in the U.S. -- a roster of colleges and universities that the publication scored the highest in combatting climate change and teaching students about sustainability.
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A slew of new renewable energy and energy efficiency projects funded by the Department of Energy in the past week adds another $531 million to the stimulus funds already handed out this year.
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Two sets of rankings released in the last week aim to gauge the greening of the nation's colleges and universities. But it's in the gap between the rankings that the most interesting results are found.
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The winners of Johnson Controls' TEAMS competition were asked to write an open letter to all the candidates in the 2008 presidential race, urging potential leaders to make the environment and energy efficiency top priorities for the election and beyond.
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Germany's Technische Universität Darmstadt won the overall top score in the U.S. Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon competition on the National Mall in Washington, followed by the University of Maryland in second place and Santa Clara University in third.
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UNH announced this week a partnership with Waste Management to pipe landfill gas to power the Durham campus, and Ball State committed to becoming carbon neutral under the Presidents' Climate Commitment.
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The college, which was also just named the greenest college in the Southeast, will join with the city in a first-of-its-kind to work together on reducing the region's carbon emissions and further their mutual climate protection goals.
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The National Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee (NJATC) for the electrical industry announced the publication of what it claims is the first comprehensive guide for solar energy system installations.
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The alliance -- the fourth such arrangement Chevron has created in the past year -- will focus on ways to convert non-food crops into renewable energy for transportation.
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U.C. Berkeley and the University of Maryland have joined a growing list of schools that boast student-funded sustainability projects.
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In the EPA's annual Green Power Challenge, New York University placed first among all individual schools for total kilowatt-hours purchased, and the Ivy Leagues are the greenest group of schools.