U.S. Solar Decathlon: The Winner Is…
For the 19 collegiate teams in the 2013 U.S. Solar Decathlon — the waiting is over! Proving that the Solar Decathlon has become a world competition, Team Austria and the […]
Category Archives: Higher education
U.S. Solar Decathlon Is On
Despite the government shutdown, the U.S. Solar Decathlon will go on as planned. Twenty student teams from the US and around the world have been working for two years to […]
Greenest Colleges & Universities: Just Announced
For the college-bound or those who want to work in higher education, the just-published 7th Annual CoolSchools Survey by Sierra Club maps out the greenest colleges and universities. Free and online, […]
Solar Decathlon China: The winner is…
China’s first-ever Solar Decathlon is over – with an Australian team named the winner on August 12 and two other closely ranked competitors (teams in China and Sweden) placing second […]
Books Galore: Language & the Written Word
Cracking the Egyptian Code: The Revolutionary Life of Jean-Francois Champollion, Andrew Robinson.(Oxford University) 272 pp. $29.95. A fervent early 19th-century Frenchman, a competitive expeditionary personality, and Egyptologist (a field he helped […]
Greenest Campus in the Pittsburgh Region
Pittsburgh’s Chatham University may become the greenest academic institution in the US when it completes the 20-year build-out now underway at its newest campus location. Gifted to Chatham in 2008, the […]
Greenest Colleges Ranked
“Green” is a very hot word on college and university campuses – whether it’s energy efficiency, LEED®-certified dorms and buildings, food composting, or deep-green curriculum. Two annual surveys of college […]
MBA’s: Do they care about enviro issues?
How do the world’s top Master’s in Business Administration programs stack up in addressing environmental, ethical and social concerns? Over the past decade, the Aspen Institute has conducted Beyond Grey […]
Appalachian State’s Solar House Goes Retail
The Solar Homestead, a net-zero energy home designed by students and professors at Appalachian State University in Boone NC, is about to go retail for consumers. Asheville-based Deltec Homes, leading […]
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