Morgan Sinclaire is a third-year math major at the University of Washington involved in Divest UW for the past two years. “If it’s wrong to wreck the planet, then it’s wrong to profit from that wreckage.” This quote by Bill McKibben has become the mantra of the fossil fuel divestment movement, the campaign which has […]
A recent U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) report to Congress reports that local and regional food sales in the U.S. totaled US$6.1 billion in 2012—an increase from the reported US$4.8 billion in 2008. This amount accounts for the selling of food from local farms, “for human consumption through both direct-to-consumer (e.g., farmers’ markets) and intermediated […]
[Editor’s note: This article is the second in a six-part series about the remote Alaskan town, Arctic Village near the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, where six students from Sierra Nevada College visited last fall. Read part I.] Aaron Vanderpool attends Sierra Nevada College in his home of Lake Tahoe Nevada. Falling perfectly into his life path […]
Two students, Amy Andrews and Ethan Van Kooten from Central College in Pella, Iowa, had a great idea for a senior project. Because homes contribute significantly to greenhouse gas emissions, Andrews and Van Kooten, both environmental studies majors, decided to build a small, sustainable home. Amy Andrews and Ethan Van Kooten converted an old granary to a tiny […]
[Editor’s note: This article is the first in a six-part series about the remote Alaskan town, Arctic Village near the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, where six students from Sierra Nevada College visited last fall. Read part II.] Rachael Blum is a final semester senior at Sierra Nevada College, majoring in Sustainability with a minor in […]
Nikhil (Nikki) Goel is the editor-in-chief of Cavs Nation and a writer for EcoWatch. He currently attends Case Western Reserve University and studies Chemical Engineering. He hopes to pursue Environmental Policy some day, making writing more than a hobby. Born and raised in Cleveland, his love for the Cavaliers is self-explanatory. Nikki is a passionate […]
Have you ever wondered about how sustainability plans develop within local government? Michael Freedman-Schnapp, director of the New York City Council’s Policy & Innovation Division, recently spoke with students about this topic at a Sustainable Development Speaker Series event. Freedman-Schnapp guided undergraduate and graduate students through the city’s various plans to achieve its ambitious sustainable development […]
In the last 50 years, the human population has more than doubled from about 3.2 billion to more than 7 billion people today. Today’s population is fueling a corporate factory farming industry that kills more than 55 billion animals per year. This month, the Animal Legal Defense Fund and Center for Biological Diversity are teaming up to […]
Sustainia, a Scandinavian think tank, and the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU) have partnered to produce the Green Guide for Universities, which offers tangible solutions to address environmental sustainability from some of the top universities in the world. The guide contains 23 case studies in sustainability from universities such as Yale, Cambridge, Peking and Copenhagen University. […]
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