The Legend of the Green Gaucho
Glendale Community College, home of the Glendale Gaucho, has been decreasing its carbon footprint with traditional and innovative initiatives since the early 1990’s. We have reduced energy use by...
View ArticleClimate Leadership at Portland State University
At Portland State University, students don’t wait until after graduation to begin changing our world. They start right away on our urban campus—a vibrant, living laboratory for confronting the...
View ArticleFair Trade Recycling
Fair Trade Recycling balances the concern about “externalizing” pollution to developing nations with the concept of the “tinkerer blessing”, where reuse, repair and recycling is a way emerging markets...
View ArticleHow glass can help improve your community and its future
How can recycling glass help improve our community and it’s future? This video explains how the recycling/re-use of glass can help improve our safety on the roads in our community as well as reduce the...
View ArticleGreen Grove Initiative
The Green Grove Campaign is one of the projects of the UM Green Initiative at the University of Mississippi to encourage recycling in the Grove on game days. This video addresses the campaign’s...
View ArticleSustainability & the Green Fund on the Ole Miss Campus
Will Bedwell, the Director of Campaigning for the Ole Miss Green Fund, speaks about 3 sustainability projects on the University of Mississippi campus. Composting projects, more hydration stations and...
View ArticleCleaning Up The Carpet Business
Look down right now – in many homes and workplaces, there’s a good chance you’re looking at carpet. That soft flooring is made of all sorts of fibers, natural and artificial (sometimes even...
View ArticleThe Birth and Evolution of the IPAT Equation – Pamela Torres
The tension between environmental impact, population and technology led scientist Paul Ehrlich, John Holdren and Barry Commoner to formulate an equation that describes the relationship between these...
View ArticleBottled Water – Yael Glazer
This video gives an overview of the costs and benefits of bottled water. Energy Technology & Policy Spring 2013, Dr. Michael Webber, UT Austin.
View ArticleMN2020: Local Plan for Climate Action
The City of Minneapolis is embarking on a once-in-a-generation plan to cut carbon emissions and propel the city as the most energy efficient in the nation. Initiatives include single-sort recycling,...
View ArticleRejuvenating batteries to cut down on waste
Own a smartphone? A laptop? Anything electronic made in the last few years? Chances are you’re also the proud owner of a lithium ion battery – a cornerstone of modern power technology and also one of...
View ArticleOne Man’s Trash Is Another Man’s Energy
Taking out the trash?Most of the time those bags of old food, broken things and other waste products are going from your hands to the curb and then to a landfill. If you live in Alexandria, Virginia or...
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