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Greening the Fashion Industry

Greening the Fashion Industry

Over the last year, no area of sustainability has drawn as much interest from students in Columbia University’s Sustainability Management graduate program than the environmental performance of the fashion industry. One of these students is Kwesi Blair, who has, himself, worked in the retail of fashion for a decade, and who has experienced, firsthand, the […]

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    Divest From Fossil Fuels Movement Explodes Across the U.S.

    Divest From Fossil Fuels Movement Explodes Across the U.S.

    Many students have vowed to ramp up their divestment campaigns at universities across America this spring. One group who has garnered much media attention is Divest Harvard, which is wrapping up a week-long campaign known as “Harvard Heat Week.” Harvard has the largest endowment of any university in the world at $36.4 billion, and hundreds of alumni including Bill McKibben, founder […]

    Students Occupy Swarthmore College Demanding Fossil Fuel Divestment

    Students Occupy Swarthmore College Demanding Fossil Fuel Divestment

    Early this morning, Swarthmore Mountain Justice launched a sit-in for fossil fuel divestment at Swarthmore College. Students at this Quaker college in Pennsylvania helped launch the campus divestment movement, which is now active at hundreds of universities across North America, Europe and Australia. The 37 students and six alumni are asking the Swarthmore Board Investment Committee chair Chris Niemczewski […]

    How to Achieve Ambitious Sustainability Goals at the City Level

    How to Achieve Ambitious Sustainability Goals at the City Level

    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 […]

    Top 10 Universities Taking the Lead on Sustainability

    Top 10 Universities Taking the Lead on Sustainability

    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. […]

    America’s Top 10 ‘Coolest Schools’ in Sustainability

    America’s Top 10 ‘Coolest Schools’ in Sustainability

    Which school is the “coolest” when it comes to promoting sustainability and protecting the environment? Sierra Magazine has the answer, again.  Melissa Lewis, who was a University of California, Irvine social ecology senior when the photo was taken in July 2013, is watering vegetables at The Ecology Center in San Juan Capistrano. Photo credit: Steve Zylius/University […]

    Two Washington DC Universities Combine For Country’s Largest Non-Utility Solar Energy Purchase

    Two Washington DC Universities Combine For Country’s Largest Non-Utility Solar Energy Purchase

    Two universities in the nation’s capital have made the largest non-utility solar energy purchase in the U.S. George Washington and American universities on Monday announced their joint Capital Partners Solar Project, a 20-year agreement to reduce the carbon footprints of the two universities and the George Washington University Hospital. At 52 megawatts (MW), it is the […]

    World Environment Day: Student Activist Implores You to ‘Raise Your Voice, Not the Sea Level’

    World Environment Day: Student Activist Implores You to ‘Raise Your Voice, Not the Sea Level’

    An environmentally conscious 21-year-old Canadian student has been selected as winner of the 2014 World Environment Day (WED) Video-Blogging Competition. Fatin Chowdhury’s entry supporting WED’s 2014 theme—“Raise Your Voice, Not the Sea Level”—means he is the blogger selected by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) to travel to a Small Island Developing State to highlight the global celebrations of WED […]

    Breaking: 7 Washington University Students Arrested Protesting Peabody Coal

    Breaking: 7 Washington University Students Arrested Protesting Peabody Coal

    On the heels of an earlier arrest of a student at a growing divestment blockade at Harvard University, seven Washington University students were arrested today in St. Louis, as they sought to enter the quarterly meeting of the Board of Trustees. Today’s action followed a historic 17-day sit-in at the St. Louis campus, where hundreds of Washington University students have joined in a […]