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Cool Schools Rating - Sierra Club |
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Back in the day, high schoolers looking at colleges (and U.S. News and World Report)
were mainly concerned with three things: prestige, location, and
whether the place had a rockin' social life. These days, however,
applicants look for something more: a school with green credentials.
"Ten years ago, I don't remember any student asking me about
green campuses," says Steven Roy Goodman, a college admissions
strategist at TopColleges.com. "Now it's quite common for students to be keenly interested in how environmentally responsible colleges are."
Read more by clicking here.
See the entire Cool Schools Rating by clicking here.
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Local Dirt Radio Show has a Website |
Natalie and I (co-hosts of the Local Dirt radio show on KDVS 90.3FM) put together a website for Local Dirt - www.localdirtradio.com.
For
those of you that are unable to listen to our show live, you can now
download our past shows and listen to them! It is set up as a blog, so
you can subscribe to it via any blog reader (I recommend Bloglines). We are working on adding an email subscription link as well....
Last night's show featured Alida Cantor and Rory ODwyer, past Local
Dirt co-hosts, who will be starting a farm in Massachusetts. They
discuss ways that young, potential farmers can better prepare
themselves for starting a farm in the future. Katie Cooper discussed
the upcoming screening of the Last Crop...Finally, we had Liz
Fitzgerald on to talk about the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and
solutions to the injustices that are happening in the tomato fields in
Florida.
If any one is interested in learning more about Local Dirt, and
potentially helping out in the studio or training to become a future
co-host, Natalie and I would love to share our time on Local Dirt with
you! You can email us directly at
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If you have any suggestions as to what topics you would like to hear
more about on Local Dirt, please email those to the local dirt email!
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High Sustainability Ratings for UC Davis |
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Student-run environmental groups have the biggest impact
Written by GABRIELLE GROW
Published October 1, 2009
Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the greenest of them all? Soon the
answer could be UC Davis if the campus maintains the high rankings that
have helped it receive accolades from environmental groups.
UC Davis was recently ranked among the top 10 campuses nationally by
Greenopia, an organization that rates universities based on a
seven-part sustainability criteria including sustainable architecture,
recycling and composting. The College Sustainability Report Card scored
the campus with a B as a "campus sustainability leader," and Sierra
Magazine scored it with an A-, rated 24th out of 135 colleges in its
Cool Schools survey.
It is the dedication of sustainability groups on campus that make it
possible for UC Davis to achieve such ratings, with nearly all of the
work falling on the shoulders of students.
To read more, click here.
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Senate Unveils Plan To Reduce Emissions |
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The health care reform bill is the main draw in Washington, but
there's another big show soon to come: a bill to protect the climate
from global warming.
The bill is the Senate's version of an
energy and climate measure the House of Representatives passed in June.
California Democrat Barbara Boxer is expected to unveil it Wednesday.
It would essentially remake the entire energy economy of the country.
So
far, the word is that the Senate bill will be tougher on climate
warming pollution than the House version. Boxer wants American industry
to reduce its emissions of greenhouse gases by 20 percent below 2005
levels by 2020. The House bill asks for a 17 percent drop.
Read more by clicking here.
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