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George Washington University
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
FEATURED SELFIE: The DC Streetcar could revitalize the H Street district while making public transit more green.
Tags: DC Streetcar, Green Public Transit, Alternative Energy, economic development, metro, carbon footprint, h street, Urban Development and Sustainability, public transportation, community revitalization
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
This week we feature the Pecan Street Project, a non-profit research group that offers unprecedented insight into how much energy we use in our homes!
Tags: Taxing Energy Systems
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Students from Clemson's EPA P3 team have developed a device that will generate power from organic material found on the forest floor.
Tags: Clemson, Microbial Fuel Cell
Northwestern University
Monday, May 08, 2017
Young people are exploring food systems through farming. We compared the group we met while in Panama with an urban farm on the South Side of Chicago.
Tags: panama, kalu yala, The Plant, Plant Chicago
The George Washington University
Thursday, June 16, 2011
View of the Cheonggyecheon's Riparian Area
University of Minnesota
Friday, March 03, 2017
The Cheonggyecheon stream project in Seoul, South Korea, provides an exciting glimpse into the possibilities of future urban design involving improved green space in cities.
Tags: sustainability, Urban design, green infrastructure, environmental activism, storyfest2017
GWU School of Media and Public Affairs
Monday, May 05, 2014
Tara Sonenshine announces the Planet Forward University Consortium and the launch of Feeding the Planet Year 2.
Tags: feeding the planet
Kevin Fouts unties a turtle trap to show a common snapping turtle to a group of high school students in July 2018. (Vanessa Moss/Sewanee)
Planet Forward Correspondent | Sewanee: The University of the South
Thursday, February 28, 2019
The coordinator for the Sewanee Headwaters Initiative, Kevin Fouts, shares insights about the connection between water management practices and their impacts.
Tags: biology, ecology, streams, waterways, watershed, pollutants, Biodiversity, pfcorrespondent
(Tony Webster/Creative Commons)
Sunday, April 16, 2017
Electricity that we use in our everyday lives has a big impact on the environment.
Tags: LEED, LEED building, LEED Certification, energy efficiency, building energy efficiency
Pu'er is named after a Yunnan town that is an important tea-processing and trading center in the province. (Photo courtesy Manki Kim/Unsplash)
George Washington University
Monday, November 28, 2022
Will the taste of Pu'er tea, associated with memories of my family in China, remain the same despite the effects of climate change?