A Canadian retailer has just banned Nalgene bottles from being sold in its stores until more is known about the effects of a chemical used to make Nalgene plastic are bettern known.
The above link describes exactly what Blackle is, and the following link is the actual website. Check it out! Take a small step and save energy while you search the world wide web. http://www.blackle.com/
It was a nice weekend at K-State with Homecoming and another K-State football victory.
On environmental business, it looks like we have much work to do about getting our campus moving toward "green" and sustainable. As the following article indicates, of 200 US colleges evaluated, K-State rates with a D+. Of interest, SEA is mentioned in the K-State profile. Now is an essential time for students to step forward and make a change for something better on campus.
Daily Grist 10/26/07 Wondering which colleges are greenest? The Sustainable Endowment Institute has released its second College Sustainability Report Card, grading the environmentaliciousness of the 200 U.S. colleges with the largest endowments. Two-thirds of the schools got better grades this time than last; the average overall grade was a C+, and six schools received an overall A- for their efforts -- Carleton College, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Middlebury College, University of Vermont, and University of Washington. The colleges were graded on transportation, administration, climate and energy, food and recycling, green building, and investment priorities, as well as endowment transparency and shareholder engagement (both of which most schools solidly failed). Among the encouraging statistics: Around half of the schools have committed to reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, more than two-thirds have green building policies, and more than 80 percent source at least some cafeteria food locally.
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Sunday, December 09, 2007
Chemical Dangers from Nalgene?
A Canadian retailer has just banned Nalgene bottles from being sold in its stores until more is known about the effects of a chemical used to make Nalgene plastic are bettern known.
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Friday, November 09, 2007
Instead of googling it, blackle it!
http://www.blackle.com/about/
The above link describes exactly what Blackle is, and the following link is the actual website. Check it out! Take a small step and save energy while you search the world wide web.
http://www.blackle.com/
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Monday, October 29, 2007
Colleges Graded on Sustainability
It was a nice weekend at K-State with Homecoming and another K-State football victory.
On environmental business, it looks like we have much work to do about getting our campus moving toward "green" and sustainable.
As the following article indicates, of 200 US colleges evaluated, K-State rates with a D+.
Of interest, SEA is mentioned in the K-State profile. Now is an essential time for students to step forward and make a change for something better on campus.
Daily Grist 10/26/07
Wondering which colleges are greenest? The Sustainable Endowment Institute has released its second College Sustainability Report Card, grading the environmentaliciousness of the 200 U.S. colleges with the largest endowments. Two-thirds of the schools got better grades this time than last; the average overall grade was a C+, and six schools received an overall A- for their efforts -- Carleton College, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Middlebury College, University of Vermont, and University of Washington. The colleges were graded on transportation, administration, climate and energy, food and recycling, green building, and investment priorities, as well as endowment transparency and shareholder engagement (both of which most schools solidly failed). Among the encouraging statistics: Around half of the schools have committed to reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, more than two-thirds have green building policies, and more than 80 percent source at least some cafeteria food locally.
K-State's profile:
http://www.endowmentinstitute.org/report2008/profile90.pdf
sources: The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, PR Newswire
straight to the report: College Sustainability Report Card 2008
see also, in Gristmill: College Sustainability Report Card 2008 released
see also, in Grist: 15 Green Colleges and Universities
see also, in Grist: College and university presidents sign on to climate pledge
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