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    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 […]

    Which Is the Greenest College Campus in Your State?

    Which Is the Greenest College Campus in Your State?

    Colleges across the U.S. have been making headlines for environmentally conscious polices and student activism. For example, the University of Dayton became the first U.S. Catholic college to divest from fossil fuels, Washington University students were arrested protesting Peabody Coal, and 130+ universities joined in a movement to measure the sustainable dining on campus. There […]

    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 […]

    Autism Risk Higher Near Pesticide-Treated Fields, Study Says

    Autism Risk Higher Near Pesticide-Treated Fields, Study Says

    Babies whose moms lived within a mile of crops treated with widely used pesticides were more likely to develop autism, according to new research published today. The study of 970 children, born in farm-rich areas of Northern California, is part of the largest project to date that is exploring links between autism and environmental exposures. One in every 68 […]

    Broccoli Can Help Reduce Health Risks Associated With Air Pollution

    Broccoli Can Help Reduce Health Risks Associated With Air Pollution

    How’s this for your unexpected health tip of the day—be sure to drink your … broccoli? A recent clinical trial involving nearly 300 people living in one of China’s most polluted regions found that daily consumption of a half cup of broccoli sprout beverage produced rapid, significant and sustained higher levels of excretion of benzene (known […]

    Developing Countries Lead Global Surge in Renewable Energy Capacity

    Developing Countries Lead Global Surge in Renewable Energy Capacity

    The number of developing nations with policies supporting renewable energy has surged more than six-fold in just eight years, from 15 developing countries in 2005 to 95 early this year, according to a report from REN21, an international nonprofit renewable energy policy network. Countries with renewable energy policies or targets in place in early 2014 (top), […]