Colleges & Education
Minnesota 2020
When can a student project save the school money? School is all about learning, and these students in Minnesota are getting hands-on experience in sustainable innovations. The students were directly involved in getting solar panels installed at... Read More
Planet Forward
The students at William Paterson University clearly take a lot of pride in their sustainability initiatives. As a finalist for the 2012 Second Nature Climate Leadership Awards, they won the public voting competition on Planet Forward featuring their... Read More
Minnesota 2020
Eolos is the Ancient Greek god of wind and the namesake for a new wind power research station at the University of Minnesota's UMore Park in Rosemount. Launched in 2010 with grants from the Recovery Act and the US Department of Energy, the station... Read More
Planet Forward
This is a full panel recording from the GW Moving the Planet Forward Conference. See highlights from this panel here.
Moderator: Doug Guthrie, Dean, GW School of Business
Guests:Deborah Wince Smith, President, Council on Competitiveness
Debra Rowe,... Read More
Joy McKee talks about Operation Green Team, a city-funded organization in Huntsville Alabama governed by a volunteer board of directors. Operation Green Team endeavors to make Huntsville a role model for the state, region and Nation in terms of... Read More
Center for Green Schools
Last week, I was able to visit one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever been to make an exciting announcement, recognizing the Green School in Bali as the Center for Green School’s “2012 Greenest School on Earth.”
Planet Forward
Are green jobs just a "nice thing to do" or a central part to a successful business? Deborah Wince-Smith and Debra Rowe discuss jobs in sustainability at the GW Moving the Planet Forward conference on April 17, 2012.
This team of researchers says that the United States’ large energy grid will not be able to handle an influx of new technology, like electric vehicles. They are developing ways for the grid to not only be able to provide EVs with electricity, but... Read More
Center for Green Schools
By Kristin Simmons Ferguson
Higher Ed Associate, Center for Green Schools
The average person tends to know what plastic drip tape and soaker hoses are, but what is plastic mulch? In China alone, the equivalent area of South Carolina is covered with this fossil fuel based plastic sheet mulch every year and then the plastic... Read More