By Claire Roby Carbon Accounting Coordinator, Clean Air-Cool Planet I recently had the privilege of presenting at the third Green Building Learning Institute of UNCF’s Institute for Capacity Building. The three day workshop in San Antonio, Texas, brought together representatives from historically black colleges and universities, Hispanic serving institutions, and tribal colleges. It was all [...]
Archive for the ‘Campus Climate Action’ category
Energy Efficiency Can Dance!
June 29, 2010Cool Planet: Climate Change in a Blog
June 25, 2010Welcome to COOL PLANET, the climate blog with a difference: The authors here have been providing solutions to climate change for years. There have been a lot of lessons learned. We look forward to sharing them – ours, and yours – here, as another step toward a COOL PLANET. Send email to: bburtis@cleanair-coolplanet.org Clean Air-Cool [...]
Let’s Get Personal: Defining Sustainability
June 23, 2010By Corey Johnson Climate Fellow, Clean Air-Cool Planet Corey Johnson is going into his senior year at UNH as a business administration major with a minor in sustainable living. He has collaborated with CA-CP in the past on the development and implementation of the Small Town Carbon Calculator (STOCC). Most recently, he has been involved [...]
Exploiting the spill, for good
June 21, 2010By Leah Bamberger, Climate Fellow Clean Air – Cool Planet Leah Bamberger did her undergraduate studies in political science and environmental studies at the College of Charleston in Charleston, SC and is now at UMass Amherst pursing a master’s degree in regional planning, where her primary research area of interest is planning [...]
Cutting Campus Carbon: Choosing a place to begin
April 28, 2010by Claire Roby, Carbon Accounting Coordinator I recently spoke at two very different gatherings of colleges and universities working on climate action plans. First, I met CA-CP’s Director of Program Planning and Coordination, Jennifer Andrews, in River Falls, Wisconsin, to teach a half day workshop at the Upper Midwest Association for Campus Sustainability conference. Coordinated [...]
Furman University Marches Forward on Sustainability Actions
March 18, 2010By Jennifer Andrews, Director of Program Planning and Coordination Clean Air-Cool Planet The week before last I had the great pleasure of returning to what has quickly become one of my favorite campuses: Furman University. Some of you may remember that Furman was our 2009 campus Climate Champion award recipient and the reasons behind my [...]
Thinking About Turkey?
November 24, 2009By Claire Roby Carbon Accounting Coordinator Clean Air-Cool Planet Everyone is thinking of food this week in the run up to Thanksgiving. The question “Should I fry a turkey or stuff a turducken?” has sparked volumes of internet chatter, and it seems like even my work at CACP has recently become food-obsessed. For about a [...]
Blogging the Blog
July 16, 2009Julia Meisel Clean Air-Cool Planet Summer Fellow Yale University All summer it’s been nagging at me… I need to blog. Blogging is not a task with which I am very familiar, but it is not unfamiliarity that has kept me from it. Not dread either. Just what could I possibly have to blog about? Many [...]
Zero-Waste Football?
July 14, 2009By Olivia Marie Bulger Summer Intern, Clean Air-Cool Planet Football and composting; not two things one normally associates. As a summer intern at CA-CP, my research on the successes and challenges of composting at the country’s colleges and universities led to the University of Colorado at Boulder, a place where sports meet sustainability in a [...]
Cool Planet: Climate Change in a Blog
February 25, 2009Welcome to COOL PLANET, the climate blog with a difference: The authors here have been providing solutions to climate change for years. There have been a lot of lessons learned. We look forward to sharing them – ours, and yours – here, as another step toward a COOL PLANET. Send email to: bburtis@cleanair-coolplanet.org Clean [...]
