U of Conn students collect sneakers to donate to Nike's Reuse-a-Shoe program, which turns them into track and playground surfaces.

Sierra magazine’s top 10 “Coolest Schools” are working hard to solve global warming, and their students are literally taking on the world by developing more sustainable food, buildings, energy sources and transportation.

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This Climate Change video is going viral. Watch this compilation of extreme weather footage from summer 2012 alone. The grim reality.

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From street lamps and sidewalks to storm drains and sewers, civil engineering projects designed to be environmentally friendly are under way in communities across the United States.

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Waste & Recycling News has come out with its annual list rating the 30 most populous cities in the US and Canada on recycling rates.

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Los Angeles became the largest city in the US to pass a plastic bag ban, when the City Council voted 13 to 1 today to disallow the use of plastic bags in supermarkets.

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Despite last
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Work, the first week of April 2012 is the largest grossing week of sales for
local farmers since the program began. This worksite wellness and local foods
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The Meadows Foundation has given the Texas Trees Foundation $96,000 to fund what could be the largest tree planting initiative in the nation.

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Princeton Review’s new 2012 Guide to Green Colleges commends 322 colleges for green living practices and learning opportunities, but breaks the paradigm of ranking the schools or sorting them into “best of” categories.

The Review reports that it dropped the grading system because all of the 322 schools on this year’s list — winnowed from 768 that were sent surveys — “have demonstrated a strong commitment to sustainability initiatives.”

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Grow Local’s Spread the Harvest Resource Give-Away Day is just one of many ways that Sustainable Food Center (SFC) supports health and wellness programs in our Sprouting Healthy Kids partner schools.  Teachers and parents from many of these …

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As we head into spring are you hoping to see more kids having a good time at the market? You think kids should be learning at a young age that cooking and eating healthy is fun? We think so too! Every week at the SFC tent at our downtown location, we h…

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As we head into spring are you hoping to see more kids having a good time at the market? You think kids should be learning at a young age that cooking and eating healthy is fun? We think so too! Every week at the SFC tent at our downtown location, we h…

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Many of you may already know that Spread the Harvest is the gardening and food-sharing program through which SFC provides free seeds, seedlings, and compost to low-income gardeners to empower more Central Texans to grow, eat, and share our own fresh, n…

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