Tagged : university-of-colorado
February 3rd, 2010
By Bill Sullivan
Green Right Now
Anyone who has ever traveled to a big-time ski resort knows that conquering the mountain is a daunting task – and an expensive one, too.
For the 2009-10season, a one-day lift ticket at Vail (Colorado) is $97 for an adult. Over at Aspen/Snowmass, a two-day advance purchase pass will set you back $191.
Of course, that’s just the beginning. If you’re a flatlander or a relative novice, you’ll probably have to rent equipment. (Plan on $40 a day and up.) If you’ve never skied at all, you’ll want to get a few pointers before climbing onto that lift: At Vail, a one day beginner lesson at Golden Peak Ski and Snowboard School is $165.
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Tags: · Abondance, Aspen, Aspen Global Change Institute, Brian Lazar, Climate Change, global warming, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Kirkwood, loss of snow, Mark Williams, Park City, Park City Foundation, Rocky Mountains, ski industry, snowlines, University of Colorado, Vail
October 8th, 2009
By Ashley Phillips
Green Right Now
The Sustainab
le Endowments Institute released the 4th edition of its annual College Sustainability Report Card 2010, also known as the Green Report Card on Wednesday.
Founded in 2005 and supported by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, the Institute supports the advancement of sustainability in higher education. It boasts that its college ranking project had a response rate of 96 percent in 2009, giving the Green Report Card the highest response rate of any college sustainability ranking or rating service.
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Tags: · Amherst, Arizona State University, Brown University, Carleton College, College of the Atlantic, Dickinson College Harvard University, Luther College, Macalester College, Middlebury College, Oberlin College, Pacific Lutheran University, Pomona College, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Sustainable Endowments Institute, The Green Report Card, University of California-San Diego, University of Colorado, University of Minnesota, University of New Hampshire, University of North Carolina, University of Pennsylvania
March 13th, 2009
By John DeFore
Green Right Now
Wondering how much it matters that your sneakers were made in China and your coffee grown in Kenya? Consider this: The ships that brought those goods to America belch enough particulate pollutants into the world’s air to match half of all cars combined.
So says a paper just published in the Journal of Geophysical Research, in which scientists led by Boulder, Colorado researcher Daniel A. Lack analyzed readings taken in and around the Gulf of Mexico during the summer of 2006. The team trailed over 200 commercial vessels that summer, measuring the emissions of everything from cargo freighters to cruise ships, and what they found isn’t happy news for those living in coastal areas.
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Tags: · carbon soot, cargo ships, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, sulfate pollution, University of Colorado, University of Delaware
September 9th, 2008
By Barbara Kessler
College-bound hig
h schoolers looking for an environmentally conscientious college should have no shortage of guidance this year. The Sierra Club has joined the Princeton Review in assessing the green creds of U.S. universities.
Actually, the venerable environmental group was first out with the idea, launching a “Cool Schools” rundown in 2007. Their second annual review, in the group’s Sept./Oct.Sierra magazine, settles on list of the top ten campuses — Ten That Get It — that includes colleges of all sizes from the East to the West.
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Tags: · Arizona State University, green colleges, Middlebury College, Oberlin College, Princeton Review, Sierra Club, University of Colorado
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