By Harriet Blake
The greening of America’s college campuses is happening from coast to coast. Stanford University hosts a green dorm project; the University of Texas has started the McCombs Green Team; and Northwestern University sponsors the annual Green City Summer Institute.
At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, home to some of the world’s finest […]

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By Bill Sullivan
Charles Harris is here, there and everywhere. While the rest of the Winston Solar Car Team dotes over “Sun Hunter”, the eighth such vehicle in the organization’s nearly 20-year history, the captain surveys the scene, making sure everyone is playing his or her proper role.
“Everyone here is motivated. You don’t have to […]

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By Harriet Blake
As the 7th annual Conference on Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) continues this week (May 5-8) in Pittsburgh, many environmentalists are finding themselves in disagreement on the subject.

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By Bill Sullivan
Charles Stone expected to encounter a skeptic or two. He had done his research, and this outside-the-box idea seemed to make good sense, but the Director of Transportation for the Mansfield (Texas) Independent School District figured he still would have some explaining to do.
“Natural gas is a little unusual,” he says. “Most people […]

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By Harriet Blake
Interest in the No Child Left Inside Act is growing on Capitol Hill this week. The proposed $100 million a year initiative would provide new funding for environmental education, specifically outdoor learning activities in schools and other learning centers. Environmentalists, teachers, some representatives of Congress and business leaders are supporting the plan […]

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By John DeFore
In what one suspects will be an early volley in a long campaign for bragging rights, the University of California at San Diego has claimed that it is about to become “the leader in renewable energy solutions among U.S. universities.” Chief among its evidence for the claim is the fact that the […]

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By John DeForeSan Francisco’s SF Climate Challenge, previously covered in this October GRN report, has announced the winners of this year’s competition. At the top of the list is the Yick Wo Elementary School, which serves the North Beach and Chinatown neighborhoods. Surprisingly, while the contest kicked off with the announcement of a $5,000 top […]

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By Barbara Kessler
Since the first hippie incurred the nickname “tree hugger,” there remains an inescapable (but not inconvenient) truth at the core of that label: Trees are still one of the best things you can cultivate if you want to green your particular piece of paradise. They gobble CO2, emit oxygen, provide cooling […]

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By Emily Speir

Photo: Phoenix Composting Toilet Systems
 
Outdoor venues such as Quail Ridge County Park in Missouri use composting toilets.
As a kid watching the remains of my latest goldfish swirling into oblivion, my thoughts were a mix of horror and curiosity. Where was my dear fish going? Where did anything go that got the flush? The […]

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By Barbara Kessler
The Southern Baptists signaled this week that they’ll be joining the growing arc of citizens concerned about global warming by issuing a position paper. The “Southern Baptist Environment & Climate Initiative”, an ardent and eloquent treatise crafted by some of the churches’ young and established leaders, declares that the church has been […]

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By Barbara Kessler
Focus the Nation, a collective effort to find global warming solutions that’s being called the country’s largest ever national teach-in, kicks off tonight with a free web cast available to anyone who wants to participate.
The web cast will focus on the “2% Solution,” which refers to the need to decrease carbon emissions […]

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By Shermakaye Bass
Some of America’s most progressive and ambitious movements have incubated on college campuses: Civil rights, anti-war, anti-Apartheid, nuclear disarmament, to name a few. And now, global climate change.
It should come as no surprise, then, that a professor, Eban Goodstein of Lewis & Clark College in Portland, conceived “Focus the Nation: Global Warming […]

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