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Putting U Money Where U Mouth Is U.S. colleges get schooled in sustainability |
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30 Jan 2007 |
Daily Grist |
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| Topics: education (all these topics) |
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Have Some Class: Week of Action in action Students unite to fight climate change |
Sarah van Schagen |
30 Jan 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: education, grassroots activism (all these topics) |
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Have Some Class: College Sustainability Report Card U.S. schools get schooled on sustainability |
Sarah van Schagen |
28 Jan 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: education (all these topics) |
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Kids these days Two yoot-based eco-vids |
Sarah van Schagen |
26 Jan 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: education, green living, innovation, recycling (all these topics) |
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Have Some Class: Finalists announced for mtvU's eco-challenge Top ten student teams duke it out for cash, concert |
Sarah van Schagen |
19 Jan 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: education (all these topics) |
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Meet the Lunch Lady Maverick chef Ann Cooper aims to spark a nationwide school-lunch revolution |
Tom Philpott |
18 Jan 2007 |
Victual Reality |
| Even the most intractable pathology can disappear, sometimes relatively quickly. A sign above a water fountain proclaiming "no coloreds" would cause any American to flinch today. Just half a century ago throughout the South, such abominations formed a banal part of the built landscape. Ann Cooper puts a fresh spin on school lunches. Photo: Chronicle/Craig Lee I go ... |
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| Topics: education, food, local food, organic food, slow food, Victual Reality (all these topics) |
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Follow-up on Federal Way schools and Gore's movie School board official defends the decision |
David Roberts |
17 Jan 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, movies, education, Washington (all these topics) |
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Best story of the year so far Al Gore's movie booted by wacky school board |
David Roberts |
11 Jan 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, education, movies, Washington (all these topics) |
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Frosty the No Man Washington school board puts a moratorium on An Inconvenient Truth |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, climate, education, green living, movies, news, Washington (all these topics) |
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Have Some Class: Week of Action Reserve a free copy of An Inconvenient Truth for your campus |
Sarah van Schagen |
09 Jan 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, education, movies (all these topics) |
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Hey, we're talking to U Arizona State and other universities plug sustainability |
Sarah K. Burkhalter |
27 Dec 2006 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: education (all these topics) |
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Video podcasts on climate change From the U. of Arizona |
Andrew Dessler |
27 Dec 2006 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: Arizona, climate, climate science, education (all these topics) |
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The Class Is Greener Julian Dautremont-Smith, higher-education sustainability advocate, answers readers' questions |
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17 Nov 2006 |
InterActivist |
| Julian Dautremont-Smith, AASHE. Are there any universities anywhere in the world that have already set a goal of becoming climate neutral? If so, who are they, and what is their plan? -- Liz Robinson, Philadelphia, Pa. Yes! College of the Atlantic, Oberlin College [PDF], Carleton College, Lane Community College, and the University of Florida have all committed to clim ... |
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| Topics: education, environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview (all these topics) |
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Being Julian Julian Dautremont-Smith, higher-education sustainability advocate, answers Grist's questions |
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13 Nov 2006 |
InterActivist |
| Julian Dautremont-Smith. What work do you do? I'm the associate director of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. AASHE has a staff of two, so I have a hand in almost everything the organization does. How does it relate to the environment? AASHE is a membership-based association of colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada that are work ... |
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| Topics: education, environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview (all these topics) |
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Hippies and rednecks unite! College field program shows there's more to citizenship than going to the polls. |
Corey McKrill |
07 Nov 2006 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: education (all these topics) |
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Where can you find the "truth" about global warming? It ain't a Senate website |
Andrew Dessler |
30 Oct 2006 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: climate, education (all these topics) |
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The Youth Shall Set You Free Meet this year's Brower Youth Award winners |
Sarah van Schagen |
27 Oct 2006 |
Main Dish |
| Whether it's the Oscars, the Emmys, or the Webbys, everyone's wished for the chance to be the one in the seat of honor -- the one saying "I'd like to thank the Academy" or even the one who's "honored just to be nominated." So as the annual Brower Youth Awards came around this year, we dug deep with some capital-J Journalism to score you a virtual invite to the festivities ... |
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| Topics: education, environmental non-government organizations (all these topics) |
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Xi'an Marks the Spot The state of China's student activist movement |
Dongli Zhang, Nathan Wyeth |
17 Oct 2006 |
Soapbox |
| By Dongli Zhang and Nathan Wyeth 17 Oct 2006 "Watch out." That's what one student leader, Hu Kunzhu, told us in a sweltering university dining hall in Xi'an this August. We were in this ancient capital of China for the College Environmental Groups Forum, which brought together students from more than 60 universities across the country. These included representatives from the far-flung wealthy provinces of the east c ... |
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| Topics: China, education (all these topics) |
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The New College Try Maine college is first to pledge carbon neutrality |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: climate, education, Maine, news (all these topics) |
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Have Some Class: And ... they're offset! Middlebury's nordic ski team goes climate neutral |
Sarah van Schagen |
04 Oct 2006 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: carbon neutral, education, sports (all these topics) |
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White and nerdy Weird Al rocks my socks off |
Sarah K. Burkhalter |
28 Sep 2006 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: cars, celebrity, education, electric vehicles, hybrids, Prius (all these topics) |
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Alma Matters Colleges and universities are learning what it takes to go green |
Joel Makower |
12 Sep 2006 |
Toiling Point |
| The dawn of the new school year has brought with it a corps of fresh-faced ideas and initiatives aimed at making colleges and universities cleaner and greener. And, like any freshman class, they are all beaming with potential: Most will succeed, a handful will excel, and a few will end up disappointing their parents. Campuses are going green -- and not just with ivy. Photo: iStockphoto The g ... |
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| Topics: education (all these topics) |
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Juvenile Call On motivating teenagers |
Umbra Fisk |
11 Sep 2006 |
Ask Umbra |
| Dear Umbra, I'm an officer for my high school's chapter of the National Honor Society, and we stress academic importance and help our community by doing service projects. I'm trying to get a service project going in support of the environment. Greenhouse-gas emissions and alternative fuels are some things I tried to bring up at our officer meetings to motivate my friends to help out, but they don't seem too interested. What I want t ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, education, green living (all these topics) |
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Have Some Class: MoJo's campus activism roundup Mother Jones highlights the work of two eco-activists |
Sarah van Schagen |
06 Sep 2006 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: education, grassroots activism (all these topics) |
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Sucker Lunch It's time to get serious about reforming school lunches |
Tom Philpott |
06 Sep 2006 |
Victual Reality |
| Playground bullies aren't the only ones shaking down kids for their milk money. Despite lots of recent fuss about the poor quality of school-cafeteria fare -- and mounting evidence of widespread diet-related maladies among kids -- corporate interests are still lining up for their cut of the cash the federal government and families spend on feeding kids at school. Did you want fries with that? Pho ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, Department of Agriculture, education, health, Victual Reality (all these topics) |
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