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The Engine On the Bus Goes Plug, Plug, Plug U.S. states beginning to invest in plug-in hybrid school buses		03 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
The Engine On the Bus Goes Plug, Plug, Plug U.S. states beginning to invest in plug-in hybrid school buses Once upon a time, someone had an idea: let's transport U.S. schoolkids in big yellow buses that spew diesel fumes and have no seatbelts. The nation embraced the idea -- though oddly, the plan to dangle a knife above each seat was scrapped -- but now it's having secon ...
Topics: cars, education, electric vehicles, energy, hybrids, news, public transportation (all these topics)

Alternative School U.S. college students are, like, totally into clean energy		30 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Alternative School U.S. college students are, like, totally into clean energy In answer to the loathed question "What are you going to do after you graduate?" gaggles of U.S. college students are looking into careers in alternative energy. (A group of college students is called a gaggle, right?) Green technology is having a heyday in schools from Illinois State to Harvard to Dartmouth; en ...
Topics: education, energy, green living, news, renewable energy (all these topics)

On a Bing and an Err Stanford and U.C. Berkeley criticized for partnerships with Big Oil		14 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
On a Bing and an Err Stanford and U.C. Berkeley criticized for partnerships with Big Oil Movie producer Steve Bing has yanked a promised $2.5 million donation to Stanford University in response to several TV and print ads wherein ExxonMobil touts its partnership with the school. Exxon is funding up to $100 million of Stanford's climate and energy research; Bing, whose family has given millions to his alma mater, is unimpr ...
Topics: Big Oil, education, energy, news (all these topics)

Biz, Biz, Oh What a Relief It Is M.B.A. students increasingly required to take courses in sustainability		13 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
Biz, Biz, Oh What a Relief It Is M.B.A. students increasingly required to take courses in sustainability We can't say finance, accounting, and marketing get our rocks off, but we're jazzed about a growing trend: 54 percent of U.S. business schools require students to take a class in sustainability or corporate social responsibility, a jump of 20 percent since 2001. At MIT's Sloan School of Management, one popular course examines ...
Topics: business, education, news (all these topics)

Frosty the No Man Washington school board puts a moratorium on An Inconvenient Truth		11 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
Frosty the No Man Washington school board puts a moratorium on An Inconvenient Truth First sex, now science? What will they tell the kids about next? The parents of a high-schooler in Federal Way, Wash., have complained to the district's school board about a teacher's plan to screen Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, and the board has put a moratorium on the film. "Co ...
Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, climate, education, green living, movies, news, Washington (all these topics)

The New College Try Maine college is first to pledge carbon neutrality		10 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
The New College Try Maine college is first to pledge carbon neutrality College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, has pledged to become the first college in the U.S. to go carbon neutral. New president David Hales announced in his inauguration speech Sunday that the tiny college will avoid, reduce, or offset all greenhouse-gas emissions generated by campus activities and student travel to and from campus. COA's 300 or s ...
Topics: climate, education, Maine, news (all these topics)

A Touch of Class New York schools will clean green		01 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
A Touch of Class New York schools will clean green Kids in New York will breathe easier this fall, thanks to a new law requiring schools in the state to purchase environmentally friendly cleaning supplies. "It's well documented that when you clean up the quality of the air we breathe indoors, students' attendance rates go up, attention spans in the classroom improve, and students perform better,&quo ...
Topics: education, green cleaning, New York, news, toxics (all these topics)

School and Unusual Punishment Temporary deal struck to prop up rural funding amid logging-revenue decline		09 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
School and Unusual Punishment Temporary deal struck to prop up rural funding amid logging-revenue decline What happens if you make funding for rural schools and roads dependent on revenues from a declining resource industry? What's that you say? Nobody would be stupid enough to do that? Ha ha. Readers, meet the federal government. A federal program that had tied rural funding to logging revenue led, as logging revenues ...
Topics: education, logging, news, politics (all these topics)

The Mod Quad Green buildings, sustainability studies going mainstream on campus		09 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
The Mod Quad Green buildings, sustainability studies going mainstream on campus More than 110 colleges and universities around the U.S. have or are building eco-friendly structures, saving on energy costs and attracting students who want to go to a school that "gets" being green. At Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, for example, students designed a green roof that now features prominently in class projects, and a recently ...
Topics: education, news (all these topics)

Now That's Intelligent Design Schools curbing energy costs by building green		04 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
Now That's Intelligent Design Schools curbing energy costs by building green School officials in Oregon are learning a thing or two from a prototype uber-green classroom near Salem, which uses a large skylight and other technologies to enhance and regulate the natural light coming into the space. With energy bills eating up millions of dollars from school budgets, the project demonstrates that clas ...
Topics: education, environmental planning, news, water pollution (all these topics)

A Green Room of Her Own Eco-friendly dorm room is part of a greening trend at Berkeley		18 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
A Green Room of Her Own Eco-friendly dorm room is part of a greening trend at Berkeley Eco-conscious college living: not just for off-campus hippies living 12 to a house anymore! At the University of California-Berkeley, sophomore Rachael Robertson lives in what's being billed as America's first green dorm room, replete with energy-saving devices and a free supply of natural toiletries. It's part of a larger move ...
Topics: California, education, green living, news (all these topics)

La Cage aux Hasselhoff Humans go on display at London Zoo		29 Aug 2005	Daily Grist
La Cage aux Hasselhoff Humans go on display at London Zoo Five women and three men -- ranging from a professional dancer to a veterinary student -- have put themselves on display as the London Zoo's resident Homo sapiens for the past three days. The posse of fit and frolicking humans, barely clad in bathing suits pinned with fake fig leaves, has been treated much as other zoo critters. Zookeepers have been providing enrichment toy ...
Topics: education, England, news (all these topics)

The Ventilator Washington state law calls for new public buildings to be green		12 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
The Ventilator Washington state law calls for new public buildings to be green Washington state will be the first in the nation to require new public buildings to meet green building standards, thanks to a bill signed last week by Gov. Christine Gregoire (D) at Washington Middle School in Olympia. Said school is due for a remodel that will meet the standards, set by the U.S. Green Building Council, by incorporating new fixtures ...
Topics: education, news, Washington (all these topics)

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