Video - Campus Sustainability at Western State Colorado University

Students are at the future leaders, and Western State Colorado University (WSCU) understands that it is critical to help students to inculcate sustainability. WSCU understands that students are at the heart of the sustainability movement. Getting students involved make sustainability sustainable. At WSCU students are passionate about sustainability that makes a difference in their community.

Video - Business Education for Good: The Ghana Project at Bentley University

The Ghana Project is a unique educational partnership between Bentley University and multiple businesses, communities, and NGOs in Ghana. It has grown from a connection to one orphanage to include work with area artisans, Ghanaian women building a local poultry business with micro-financing, and local entrepreneurs working at the crossroads of public health and sustainability.

Bentley University Sustainability on Campus and in Ghana

Bentley University has made sustainability a priority, not just on campus but in the developing African nation of Ghana. Located just west of Boston, Bentley is a business university with more than 5,000 full-time students. The university has set aggressive goals to eliminate their carbon footprint by 2030. Bentley is reducing their environmental footprint through energy management, and building environmentally conscious retrofits including the installation of LED lights.

Bentley is also purchasing 25 million kWh/yr of RECs which have helped to halve the school's carbon footprint. Bentley was honored by the EPA as a Green Power Partner and earned recognition as one of the top ten Northeast-10 Conference schools in the EPA’s College & University Green Power Challenge.

Bentley's sustainability efforts have gone far beyond the college campus and  now extend all the way to Africa.  Diane M. Kellogg is an associate professor of management at Bentley University and the driving force behind the university's sustainability program in Ghana.

Diane's work in Ghana began when she took over for her friend Carol Gray. Carol was raising money to build an orphanage in the country when she was diagnosed with terminal cancer. “I want to die knowing the orphanage can support itself, without always needing donations." Carol said to Diane, "You’re a management consultant. You teach at a business school. Could Bentley help?” she asked.

Cornell University Installing a Solar Array with the Help of NY State

Cornell University is one of several projects that will receive funding for solar installations as part of NY-Sun initiative, launched by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The state has awarded a total of $54 million to Cornell. The state's award will be added to $120 million in private investment designated for infrastructure projects.

Cornell University will instal 6,766 solar photovoltaic panels on a 10-acre Cornell property site adjacent to the Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport. This is Cornell’s first large-scale solar project and it is expected to produce about 2.5 million kWh annually, or about 1 percent of Cornell’s total electricity use.

Innovative Approaches to Environmental Education: Taking School Outside

Schools are adopting increasingly innovative approaches to education that help to show children the value of the environment. Some schools are teaching children by bringing them out into nature and enabling them to do things like canoe down a river, hold a bird of prey, and rappel down a cliff wall. These types of activities are of immense value and offer far more than can be achieved in a classroom setting alone.

This is the unique pedagogical approach of WOLF (Wonders of the Ozarks Learning Facility) program. This novel education is the byproduct of a public-private partnership between the Springfield, Missouri public school system, Bass Pro Shops, and the Wonders of Wildlife Museum.

MBA Specialisation in Carbon Management at the London School of Business & Finance (LSBF)

London School of Business and Finance (LSBF) has unveiled a new MBA with a specialization in carbon management. The degree is designed to give students all the knowledge needed to pursue careers in the rapidly growing renewable energy sector. The MBA specialization will teach students about the principles of carbon management, it will highlight current and emerging issues from the sector at both national and international level. Students will also study project management and leadership, helping them to implement carbon management policies in businesses worldwide. These practical and academic skills will give students the opportunity to build their future in the rapidly growing and forward-thinking sustainability sector.

Energime University: Changing the World with Sustainable Education

Energime University is the world's first scientist driven entity dedicated entirely to teaching sustainable global resource management (Energy, food, water, waste). This school is composed of a dedicated and passionate group of some of the world’s foremost scientists and educators. Energime University is embarking on an ambitious quest to educate the world and provide the essential skills to forge a more sustainable world.

Classes and courses will be offered and taught live and over the internet by the visionary scientists, inventors, integrators, and business experts. These forums will cover the newest and most innovative transformative technologies, operational protocols, and ground breaking projects now in development.

Green Education and Ten Careers in Sustainability

A green education opens doors to a number of  high paying careers and helps to build a more sustainable world. The importance of a workforce schooled in sustainability is critical to the future of our planet.

Our environment is in crisis due to the ways we produce energy, grow food and manage water and waste. If we continue with business as usual a systemic collapse is inevitable and in many places it has already begun. People who understand the dynamics of sustainability can dramatically change the ways we do things before we pass irreversible tipping points that will condemn future generations to an environmental apocalypse.

The Princeton Review's 2013 Guide to 322 Green Colleges

The Princeton Review's Guide to Green Colleges profiles 320 institutions of higher education in the US and two in Canada. These schools demonstrate a strong commitment to sustainability in their academic offerings, campus infrastructure, activities and career preparation.

To produce this book, they partnered with the US Green Building Council, a national nonprofit organization best known for developing the LEED green building rating system.

The guide is the only free comprehensive and annually updated guide to green colleges. 

To download Princeton Review's Guide to 322 Green Colleges click here.

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Princeton Review's 2014 Green Honor Roll

The following 22 schools made the Princeton Review's 2014 Green Honor Roll by receiving a score of 99, which is the highest possible score in their rating system. This list was assembled from assessments of 832 colleges.

In alphabetical order, here are the colleges that earned a perfect green score from Princeton Review for 2014:

Harvard's New VP for Sustainable Investment Proves that Students can Change the World

Harvard has hired its first vice president for sustainable investment to help oversee the university's $30 billion endowment. Jameela Pedicini was hired in the wake of a student-led activist campaign demanding the school divest its holdings in fossil fuel companies.

As reported by Fossil Free Campaign leader 350.org, more than 300 colleges and universities are now demanding that their schools withdraw their endowment holdings from companies involved in oil, gas and coal.

The campaign has identified over 200 publicly traded companies that are tied to fossil fuels. The goal of the campaign is to encourage schools to divest from companies that are associated with oil, gas and coal.

15 Environmental Scholarships in the United States

Environmentally minded students who are hard pressed to secure the resources to attend college and university now have a range of scholarships to help finance their education. Hundreds of thousands of dollars go toward environmental scholarships every year in the United States.

Here are fifteen environmental scholarships from an alphabetized list assembled by Brittany Johnson and Christine Coester and published in Sierra.

Webinar - Sustain Your Campus & Sustain Your Brand

Sustain Your Campus. Sustain Your Brand is a free webinar which is subtitled The Impact of Sustainability on Your College or University Brand. This webinar will take place on September 11, 2013 between 2:00 and 3:00pm EST.

Sustainability an operating principle that is part of daily student life. Arizona State University and Notre Dame University have both built strong brands around sustainability..

Event / Workshop - Campus as a Living Lab: Using the Built Environment to Revitalize College Education

This event will take place on October 4, 2013 at St Clair Community College, Port Huron, MI.  The American Association of Community Colleges’ SEED Center is hosting the Campus as a Living Lab: Using the Built Environment to Revitalize College Education. This is a workshop for colleges that are greening their campuses and are interested in how to use these projects as real-world teaching tools for students.

Office Depot's Back to School Cause Marketing

For a second year in a row Office Depot is successfully using cause marketing to increase its profile. It would appear that the efforts are paying off as sales from this year's campaign are already out-performing last year's effort. Office Depot has been a business leader through its anti-bullying effort. Last year Office depot's We Supply Kindness' campaign partnered with Lady Gaga's Born This Way Foundation and provided a one million dollar donation. This year Office Deport continued its anti-bullying campaign and partnered with the boy band One Direction offering another million dollars for anti-bullying education in schools.

According to David Hessekiel, President of Cause Marketing Forum, here are three lessons to be learned from Office Depot:

Sustainable Schools Produce Eco-literate Ambassadors

Sustainability is increasingly ubiquitous on university campuses across the country and around the world. But do students and society really benefit from an environmental education and a sustainable campus? More specifically, do environmental academics, renewable energy, recycling and other sustainability initiatives stay with students after they graduate? Do they carry their green experience into the workforce?

Sierra set out to answer this question by asking Do Green Schools Matter? They explain that it is hard to respond to this query as are only a few universities that actually track whether environmental curricula make a difference to students after graduate.

Video - The Importance of Engaging the Community in Campus Sustainability

Several members of the University of Michigan community highlight campus operations strategy including recycling, energy efficiency and renewable energy like a high profile solar array. They stress that it is important to engage the community to get people involved with the campus sustainability strategy.

Video - Cornell Sustainable Campus: A Living Laboratory for Sustainability

Discover how, as a Living Laboratory for Sustainability, Cornell University supports research, scholarship, and the practical application of knowledge that address one of humankind's greatest challenges: achieving a sustainable world for all.

Video - Green Buildings on Campus

Green buildings are really about a culture of learning. In this video John D. Spengler reviews green innovation in sustainable campuses in Asia. In addition to mitigating carbon footprints and other environmental impacts through energy efficient technologies, campuses in Asia have started to apply various green innovations through design and methods enhancement.

Five Ways Students are Fighting Climate Change

Young people, as they have for decades in movements around the world, are pushing and pulling the environmental movement to be bolder, and here are some stories to prove it.

1. Students Expose Climate Deniers and Lame Politicians

Activists across the country are continuing to connect the dots from corporate polluter money to politicians and the so-called “climate debate.” Scientists who are paid off by the likes of the Koch Brothers and Exxon are being called out by students like Hannah Noll in Wisconsin on their conflicts of interest in public. Politicians who think they’re just going to shake hands and kiss babies on the campaign trail are getting asked some tough questions that have global climate consequences by young activists from coast to coast.