campus activism
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Can the University of California make campus food sustainable?
A look at what it will take to get the behemoth University of California system to move its cafeterias and fast food franchises toward sustainability.
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Keep It Fresh: On the Campus Consciousness Tour with Wiz Khalifa
While you were brushing your teeth this morning, did you ever, for a moment, think that the water coming out of your faucet would make you nauseous or damage your kidneys? Probably not. But, unfortunately, not everyone has that luxury. One in three people lack access to quality water. At least fourteen states are currently […]
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Student Governments Urge Congress to Support Clean Energy Education
A group of more than 100 university and college student government presidents submitted a letter (PDF download) last week urging Congress to launch a national program for clean energy science and engineering education. The presidents – representing more than one million American students – warned Congress that advanced energy education is critical for U.S. leadership in the […]
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Dirty energy fuels college campuses
University of Washington campus.Did you know that many of our country’s colleges and universities — places that are supposed to be a source of higher-education and leadership — get their electricity by burning coal? And sometimes those coal-fired power plants are even on the campuses? I think many of us look back in disbelief at […]
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EPA announces collegiate Green Power winners; competition fails to change power buying habits
The Ivy League is the greenest of them all, according to the EPA, which today announced the college and university winners of the Green Power challenge — a competition to motivate American schools to purchase more renewable energy. Participating schools compete within their athletic conferences to purchase the most certified green power, but conferences only […]
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The moral voice on climate can become policy brokers or enviro activists
[In my effort to highlight other climate bloggers, I’m reprinting this post from Richard Graves, of It’s Getting Hot in Here, since it’s their future we “adults” are destroying.] The world is halfway through the process to create a global climate treaty to respond to Global Warming. In the halls around me, government, NGO, and […]
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Participate in the National Teach-In on Global Warming Solutions, Feb. 5
A guest post by Eban Goodstein, Professor of Economics at Lewis & Clark College and project director of the National Teach-in on Global Warming Solutions. —– One thing you can do to stop global warming right now is tell a teacher — a friend, your kid’s teacher, a cousin, or a colleague — about The […]
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Sentence of the day
“The students say they initially planned to hang bed sheets, but had trouble collecting 350 sheets, so they moved to undergarments.” — “Coeds Take Off Underwear to Be ‘Green’,” AP
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PowerVote erects 30 nine-foot windmills at Ole Miss for presidential debate
Thirty nine-foot-tall windmills today are spinning a big welcome message for John McCain and Barack Obama on the campus of Ole Miss for tonight’s first presidential debate. Power Vote — a nonpartisan youth voter campaign — erected the windmill "political art installation" to whip-up support for clean energy as an issue in the 2008 election. […]