http://www.environmentalleader.com Environmental Leader Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:49:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/07/win-recognition-for-your-colleges-environmental-program/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/07/win-recognition-for-your-colleges-environmental-program/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:15:16 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69569 Enviance and Environmental Leader are hosting a March Madness tournament to determine the university with the best undergraduate programs in environmental studies and sustainability. The tournament, running at the same time as the NCAA college basketball championship of the same name, will award $5,000 to the environmental and sustainability department of one National Champion, and [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/07/win-recognition-for-your-colleges-environmental-program/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/03/tool-to-ease-colleges-reporting-for-sustainability-rankings/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/03/tool-to-ease-colleges-reporting-for-sustainability-rankings/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:02:07 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69429 Starting this Wednesday, colleges and universities will have a single portal for reporting their data to some of the biggest sustainability rankings in education. The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education is launching the free Campus Sustainability Data Collector to collect information for The Princeton Review Green Rating, Sierra magazine’s Cool Schools [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/03/tool-to-ease-colleges-reporting-for-sustainability-rankings/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/10/07/university-solar-capacity-rose-450-in-3-years/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/10/07/university-solar-capacity-rose-450-in-3-years/#comments Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:50:55 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=63131 Installed solar capacity in the higher education sector has grown 450 percent over the last three years , according to research by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. AASHE has compiled a database that details hundreds of campus solar photovoltaic installations. There is currently 137 MW of solar capacity installed on [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/10/07/university-solar-capacity-rose-450-in-3-years/feed/ 1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/09/27/canada-nearly-doubles-annual-wind-installations-top-colleges-revealed/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/09/27/canada-nearly-doubles-annual-wind-installations-top-colleges-revealed/#comments Tue, 27 Sep 2011 15:49:01 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=62450 This year Canada is on track to set a record for new installed wind power, with 1,338 MW projected, according to the Canadian Wind Energy Association. This level of installations would almost double the 690 MW installed in 2010. It would represent almost $3.5 billion in investment and more than 13,500 person-years of employment, Canwea [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/09/27/canada-nearly-doubles-annual-wind-installations-top-colleges-revealed/feed/ 2 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/07/22/higher-education-and-sustainability-discussion-at-necsc/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/07/22/higher-education-and-sustainability-discussion-at-necsc/#comments Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:00:04 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=57428 At the NECSC conference, a panel of presidents from Vermont institutions of higher education address the driving forces likely to affect higher education and our sustainability efforts. Moderator: Julie Newman, Ph.D, Director at Yale University’s Office of Sustainability Panelists: President Daniel Mark Fogel, University of Vermont Dean of Faculty Felicity Ratte, Marlboro College President Paul [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/07/22/higher-education-and-sustainability-discussion-at-necsc/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/07/01/energy-management-at-stanford-university/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/07/01/energy-management-at-stanford-university/#comments Fri, 01 Jul 2011 10:47:59 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=56269 Fahmida Ahmed, Associate Director of Sustainable Stanford Programs, Joseph Stagner, Executive Director of Sustainable Stanford, and Gerry Hamilton, Associate Director of Facilities Engineering Management at Stanford, discuss the management practices and policies undertaken at Stanford to improve the day-to-day sustainability of the campus as well as potential future pathways for green management.]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/07/01/energy-management-at-stanford-university/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/06/23/sustainability-education-at-enclave-harbour/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/06/23/sustainability-education-at-enclave-harbour/#comments Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:31:46 +0000 Matt Courtland http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=56883 In my recent article, The Promise of Sustainability Education, I discussed the importance of introducing whole systems thinking and environmental sustainability into the American educational system. There are a variety of organizations using a range of methods to bring sustainability pedagogy into today’s schools. David Miller created Enclave Harbour as an on-line location offering virtual [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/06/23/sustainability-education-at-enclave-harbour/feed/ 2 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/05/17/the-promise-of-sustainability-education/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/05/17/the-promise-of-sustainability-education/#comments Tue, 17 May 2011 11:51:06 +0000 Matt Courtland http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=54116 The educational system in the United States once ranked among the best in the world, but the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) most recent statistics show the US produced only average proficiency scores when compared against other countries in science, reading, and math. We now have a unique opportunity to regain our practice of [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/05/17/the-promise-of-sustainability-education/feed/ 2 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/01/28/nyu-doubles-output-cuts-emissions-with-chp-plant/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/01/28/nyu-doubles-output-cuts-emissions-with-chp-plant/#comments Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:58:45 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=48430 New York University has finished a co-generation plant which reduces air pollutants by 68 percent while producing heat, hot water and chilled water for the campus, the university said. The university’s natural gas-fired cogen plant also decreases greenhouse gas emissions by 23 percent compared to NYU’s previous cogen plant, a 30-year-old oil-fired model. Co-generation plants, [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/01/28/nyu-doubles-output-cuts-emissions-with-chp-plant/feed/ 2 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/01/05/university%e2%80%99s-3-5m-dry-bio-digester-is-first-in-nation/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/01/05/university%e2%80%99s-3-5m-dry-bio-digester-is-first-in-nation/#comments Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:01:19 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=47206 The University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh, which ranked 35th on Sierra Magazine’s “Cool Schools” for its green energy initiative, is just months from completing the first US installation of a dry anaerobic bio-digester, scheduled to begin operations in April 2011, according to the university’s website. The $3.5 million bio-digester will use food scraps and yard waste, about [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/01/05/university%e2%80%99s-3-5m-dry-bio-digester-is-first-in-nation/feed/ 0