Ever wondered how much energy is embedded in the products we consume every day (beyond the energy we use to travel and heat/cool our buildings)? At CNBN we once analyzed the greenhouse gas impacts accumulated over 50 years of living: food can account for 20-30% of our c …
As Sierra Club’s Anastasia Schemkes fires off her clarion call to students to #seizethegrid to secure 100% clean electricity, Prof. Eban Goodstein, Director at Bard College, invites students to take one, simple action that could transform the GHG profile of the US ele …
As students gather in #cleanenergyu conversations this Earth Month to post their vision and actions towards a clean energy future by 2025, Sierra Club’s Anastasia Schemkes demonstrates how one young student’s bold vision can dramatically be realized through her acti …
For 25 years, Mark Kenber, CEO at the Climate Group, has been pursuing his own clean energy vision: to engage business and policy leaders to commit to the clean energy revolution. And, as the international Paris Summit approaches this fall, Mark believes we face a promi …
As our #cleanenergyu conversation gets underway again this Earth Month, students from across many U.S. campuses are sharing their vision for a 2025 clean energy future by convening post it wall conversations. Valencia College (FL) has a stunning track record of reduci …
The campuses leading Chevrolet's Clean Energy Campus Campaign originally convened the #CleanEnergyU dialogue. As we explored in an earlier series of GBIG blogs, these academic leaders were the first to access a new source of carbon capital to help accelerate their clean …
So what happens when you bring leading universities and their students together with fortune 100 companies, non-profit leaders and climate/energy experts to engage in a twitter conversation via #cleanenergyu regarding why clean energy matters to them?
A surprisingly …
Student perspectives on clean energy often push our universities toward innovation at the uncomfortable frontiers, as their passion -- and frustrations with the status quo -- demand deeper leadership. To help our campuses serve as “beacons of progress,” students are …
This year, the University of Illinois at Chicago joined Southern Oregon University to pioneer access for their LEED buildings to US carbon market capital, securing Chevy’s Campus Clean Energy Campaign, funding, in order to accelerate their clean energy performance.
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So what would you do if you were President for a day?
President of Portland State University, Wim Weiwel, tackles this same question every day as he balances the competing interests on his time and PSU’s leadership. If he prioritizes sustainable endowments, diver …
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