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MTV and Campus Climate Challenge team up to get students greening

So I mentioned last week that mtvU and GE are teaming up on an ecomagination Challenge asking college students to come up with ideas for greening their campuses. Today, I found out about another partnership -- this one between MTV proper (or rather, thinkMTV? So many MTVs, so little interest in figuring out which is which) and the Campus Climate Challenge kids.

The Break the Addiction Challenge gives students (both high school and college) three assignments aimed at promoting models of climate responsibility on campus. From the press release:

Connect the Plots

Land corridors encourage biodiversity, says research in Science Narrow strips of land that connect isolated natural areas encourage plant biodiversity, according to a new study in Science. The study confirms what ecologists have theorized for decades — that areas connected by land corridors “retain more native species than do isolated patches, that this difference increases […]

Aquaculture Shock

Farmed-fish supply rises, but still may not match demand Farmed fish have nearly caught up to wild-caught fish as a source of the world’s seafood, reported the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization yesterday. In 1980, just 9 percent of human-consumed fish came from aquaculture; now the number is 43 percent. “Catches in the wild are […]

Pulp Non-Fiction

Lax enforcement allows toxic sludge to overrun Chinese village Here’s China’s environmental situation in a nutshell: In 2004, after a toxic spill into the Yellow River, two Chinese paper mills were fined $300,000 and ordered to install water-recycling and treatment equipment. They didn’t. Instead, city officials built temporary wastewater containment pools beside the river. An […]