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That'll Teach 'Em Colleges around the country take green steps		20 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 11:32 AM on 20 Dec 2007 Are you thinking what we're thinking? Yep: It's time for a green college roundup! Maine's College of the Atlantic has made good on its pledge to be a carbon-neutral campus, say school officials. "As far as we know, [COA is] the first in the world to make the commitment, and as far as we know, the first to do it," says David Hales, president of the 300-student college, which offers one major ...
Topics: climate, education, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, news, Oregon (all these topics)

McEducation Why the Happy Meals-for-good-grades scheme deserves an 'F'	Guest author	12 Dec 2007	Gristmill

Topics: parenting, food, education, business, Florida (all these topics)

The school-lunch dog fight In the clash over school lunches, who's watching out for the kids?	Tom Philpott	05 Dec 2007	Gristmill

Topics: education, food, health, parenting (all these topics)

Money, meet mouth How one group is convincing U.S. colleges to invest responsibly	Katharine Wroth	15 Nov 2007	Gristmill

Topics: innovation, grassroots activism, education, campus activism (all these topics)

Efficiency U. Colleges and universities team up with Clinton Global Initiative to green their campuses	David Roberts	07 Nov 2007	Gristmill

Topics: green building, education, Bill Clinton (all these topics)

Candid Campus Sierra magazine names top 10 green colleges		30 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 3:48 PM on 30 Oct 2007 Perhaps inspired by yours truly, Sierra magazine has named America's top 10 "coolest" green schools -- from 850-student Warren Wilson College in North Carolina to the University of California, which has 214,000 students on various campuses. And that's not even to mention their eight honorable mentions. So take a break and study up. source:� Sierra Magazine From the Arch ...
Topics: education, lists, news, Sierra Club (all these topics)

From Campus: Making a power shift Students organize summit on climate change	Nathan Wyeth	30 Oct 2007	Gristmill

Topics: climate, education, energy, grassroots activism, politics (all these topics)

Ed Would Colleges graded on sustainability		25 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 4:12 PM on 25 Oct 2007 The Sustainable Endowment Institute has released its second College Sustainability Report Card, grading the environmentaliciousness of the 200 U.S. colleges with the largest endowments. Two-thirds of the schools received better grades this time around; the average overall grade was a C+, with six schools receiving an overall A- for their efforts. The colleges were graded on transportation, administration, climate and e ...
Topics: education, green living, news (all these topics)

Along the Mississippi: Tax thyself Guess what happens when communities cough up cash?	Katharine Wroth	24 Oct 2007	Gristmill

Topics: education, Iowa, Mississippi River, Missouri, placemaking (all these topics)

Makin' the grade College Sustainability Report Card 2008 released	Sarah van Schagen	24 Oct 2007	Gristmill

Topics: education (all these topics)

Into the Wild On tossing food waste	Umbra Fisk	10 Oct 2007	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I am a college student. I eat a lot on the go. Not fast food or boxed meals, but when I leave my dorm I usually grab an apple, banana, or other fruit/veggie to eat as I walk to my destination. I don't compost, instead I just throw the banana peel or apple core into the bushes. I like the thought that maybe one day my apple core will become an apple, or that my banana peel will help nourish that piece of ground/animals in t ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, education, food, green living, waste (all these topics)

What's Up, Doc? U.K. judge rules Inconvenient Truth partisan but still OK to show in schools		03 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 12:48 PM on 03 Oct 2007 A judge has ruled on a British citizen's accusation that the United Kingdom's distribution of An Inconvenient Truth to secondary schools amounts to political indoctrination. And the strange, strange verdict is: Yes, the documentary can be shown in schools -- as long as teachers follow guidelines to not promote Al Gore's "partisan political views" to impressiona ...
Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, climate, climate change skepticism, education, England, litigation, news, politics (all these topics)

Dimmockery British citizen sues government over distribution of climate-change film to schools		28 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 2:09 PM on 28 Sep 2007 In July, a judge ruled that the British government's decision to send Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth documentary to 3,500 English secondary schools did not constitute political indoctrination of children. British citizen and fun-name owner Stewart Dimmock disagrees, and is suing his government to quash the dastardly distribution. Dimmock claims the "irredeemable&quo ...
Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, climate, climate change skepticism, dimwittery, education, litigation, news, politics, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Cookin' It Old School Time to reinvest in the school-lunch program	Tom Philpott	27 Sep 2007	Victual Reality
At private schools across the country, good cafeteria food is becoming as de rigueur as French classes taught by native speakers, Associated Press reports. Schoolyard vegetable gardens bloom, tended by future Ivy Leaguers under the watch of "sustainability coordinators." In the kitchen, trained cooks transform that bounty into food worthy of enjoying, not merely enduring. Unfortunately ...
Topics: education, food, green living, parenting, Victual Reality (all these topics)

No Child Left Inside A chat about Congress' effort to restore environmental education funds	Amy Linn	26 Sep 2007	Grist Feature
"Go outside and play!" It's a simple enough command, but as a nation of teeth-gnashing parents and teachers will tell you, not enough kids want to unplug or log off long enough to heed it. Enter Congress. That's right, Congress. The oyster is your classroom. Amid growing evidence that learning about nature and actually experiencing it can help children become healthier ...
Topics: Congress, education, health, legislation, parenting (all these topics)

From Campus: Get hip to social entrepreneurship It's a hot topic on campus these days	Nathan Wyeth	25 Sep 2007	Gristmill

Topics: business, climate, climate change mitigation, education (all these topics)

Health Class L.A. building schools close to freeways		24 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 11:40 AM on 24 Sep 2007 More than 60,000 students in Los Angeles attend school within 500 feet of a highway, and seven more traffic-spooning campuses are in the works, despite health experts' warnings that such pollution-proximate students are at increased risk of asthma and other illnesses. All of the schools will be built with air-filtration systems, but such systems do not reliably remove the smallest, most dangerous particulate p ...
Topics: air pollution, education, health, Los Angeles, news, placemaking, urban planning (all these topics)

From Treehugger to Kidhugger Reflections on protecting your offspring without losing your sanity	Amy Linn	17 Sep 2007	Grist Feature
Kidhuggers. It's a gag-me kind of word, too precious to be catchy. And it certainly won't ever replace the slur-cum-badge-of-honor for enviros -- treehuggers. But maybe it should. Illustration: Keri Rosebraugh The green movement has never been about people with an overfondness for bark and flora. Instead, it's based on a natural protectiveness, an urge to defend all the vulner ...
Topics: education, green living, health, parenting (all these topics)

Brood Awakenings A Grist special series on parenting and health		17 Sep 2007	Grist Feature
Got kids? Got thoughts on kids? Come on over to our parenting blog to chat. Among environmentalists, a common rallying cry is to protect the planet "for our grandchildren." It's a lovely sentiment, and a powerful notion -- that the choices you make today affect generations yet to come. But what about the generation spattering spaghetti sauce on your walls right now? In this special series, Grist turns its fo ...
Topics: education, green living, health, parenting (all these topics)

Schoolhouse Walks Municipalities try to encourage students to walk to school		11 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 4:21 PM on 11 Sep 2007 Cities across the U.S. are turning their attention not only to green education, but to how students get to school. Forty years ago, half of all students walked or bicycled to the schoolhouse. Today, that number has dropped to 15 percent, while 60 percent of youths are toted in a car. The shift, brought on by fears of traffic hazards and stranger danger, has contributed to increases in o ...
Topics: education, green living, health, news, parenting (all these topics)

Teach Your Children Well Schools across the U.S. go green		11 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 10:10 AM on 11 Sep 2007 Perhaps in an attempt to prepare students for an eco-college experience, many elementary, middle, and high schools are getting in on the green-building trend. Sixty schools across the U.S. have been certified by the U.S. Green Building Council, and 360 more are waiting to have applications approved; in 2000, only four schools applied for certification. The new generation of educational edifices boasts fea ...
Topics: education, green building, green living, news (all these topics)

Gettin' schooled AASHE awards campus sustainability leaders	Sarah van Schagen	07 Sep 2007	Gristmill

Topics: education (all these topics)

The perfect dorm College residence halls trending toward green ... and not-so-green	Sarah van Schagen	30 Aug 2007	Gristmill

Topics: education, green living, placemaking, shopping (all these topics)

Is Our Children Greening? Students and colleges starting to go green		24 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Is Our Children Greening? Students and colleges starting to go green It's school time again, and you know what that means: pencils, books, teachers' dirty looks, and ambitious eco-minded students. Thanks to the influence of today's yoots -- a generation accustomed to sorting their trash and hyper-aware of global warming -- schools across the country are greening up education. California's Green Campus Program ...
Topics: education, green living, news, United States (all these topics)

WWF's Conservation Island A virtual world	Sarah van Schagen	17 Aug 2007	Gristmill

Topics: education, green living, tech, websites, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

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