“Beyond Coal” underwear line supports protests on coal-powered campuses PACT, a stylish underwear brand that blends design and sustainability with support for powerful social and environmental causes, launches a new line last week that proudly supports the Sierra Student Coalition’s “Campuses Beyond Coal” initiative. Today, PACT announces the public availability of their latest collection, “Beyond [...]
UNCF (the United Negro College Fund), the nation’s largest and most effective minority education organization, today announced that its Institute for Capacity Building (ICB) has awarded 23 green planning grants totaling $240,000 to assist with institutional sustainability planning for minority serving institutions (MSIs). Additionally, this grant will encourage MSIs to participate in the American College [...]
The Federal Transit Administration announced the award of $1.7 million to the Anaheim Transportation Network (ATN) for cutting-edge transportation projects that create “green” jobs, promote the use of clean fuels, and help reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gases and other pollutants.
High school students throughout the United States and from as far away as Brazil, Chile, Denmark, Germany, India, Indonesia, New Zealand, Uganda, the United Kingdom, Tanzania, and Zambia are answering Algalita Marine Research Foundation’s invitation to participate in the “2011 Plastics Are Forever International Youth Summit” by busily formulating their proposals outlining action-oriented solutions to [...]
The Department of Environmental Protection is accepting applications from schools, universities, intermediate units, county conservation districts, environmental education centers, businesses and incorporated nonprofit organizations—including municipalities and municipal authorities—for the 2011 Environmental Education Program grants.
Mayor Reed has unveiled Power to Change, a plan that will guide the City of Atlanta’s sustainability efforts for the next several years. As part of the plan, Mayor Reed has set the aggressive goal of making Atlanta a top 10 city for sustainability.
Voters from Connecticut to California and Michigan to Florida are more likely to support candidates who support an energy bill that cuts climate change pollution, based on new poll results released today. New surveys by Public Policy Polling (PPP) for the NRDC Action Fund from 23 key Congressional Districts show that voters favor a clean [...]
A new five-year, $10.5-million partnership between General Motors of Canada, Waterloo-based Maplesoft Inc., and a multidisciplinary research team at the University of Waterloo is tackling the challenges of next generation electric vehicles. Through model-based design and prototype testing, the team will investigate crucial technologies for achieving more widespread use of electric vehicles.
IBM today announced that it is the systems integrator for NV Energy’s Advanced Service Delivery project that includes smart grid technology, advanced meter infrastructure and meter data management. NV Energy, serving 1.4 million electric and gas customers in Nevada, is leading a comprehensive deployment of smart grid technologies, with support from the Department of Energy’s [...]