Tag Archives: Sustainability

Building a green campus

Last Monday, I attended my first UMD for Clean Energy meeting. The group\’s purpose is to advocate for sustainability on and around the campus. As an environmental science and policy major, I had been wanting to check it out. Discussion focused on East Campus, a proposed development to be built across Route 1 by the […] … learn more→

Colleges: Surge in sustainability and savings

Facing frugal times, more schools are finding that energy efficiency improvements can cut costs without cutting campus services. Connecting the dots between sustainability and savings is an accelerating trend revealed in the new College Sustainability Report Card 2011. Released this week at GreenReportCard.org, the publication is the only independent evaluation of sustainability in campus operations […] … learn more→