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Big green growth at UC Davis
By Julia Ann Easley
UC Davis is launching a major effort to strengthen its commitment to environmental stewardship and sustainability.
The Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability Initiative includes a new office to coordinate universitywide efforts on sustainability, seed money to support new projects, and the creation of a chancellor-level advisory committee. [more...]
Green and Cool
Sierra magazine has named the University of California system one of America's Top 10 "coolest" schools for its efforts to stop global warming. UC ranked No. 4 on the Sierra Club magazine’s inaugural listing of the nation’s greenest campuses. [more...]
Interdisciplinary Nobel Laureates Symposium on Grand Challenges of Global Sustainability
Under the patronage and with active participation of the German Chancellor, Dr Angela Merkel, this unique symposium will assemble some of the top minds in the world to address crucial intellectual challenges. Nobel laureates from various disciplines, supported by other world-renowned experts, are invited to discuss their views of the best scientific and political strategies to achieve climate stabilization, energy security for generations to come, and equitable development on a global scale. The results, summarized in the “Potsdam Memorandum”, will be presented at the 13th UN Climate Change Conference in Bali in December this year as an impetus for converging on a promising new global deal for sustainability. [more...]
Focusthenation.org
Focus the Nation is coordinating teams of faculty and students at over a thousand colleges, universities and K-12 schools in the United States, to collaboratively engage in a nationwide, interdisciplinary discussion about “Global Warming Solutions for America”. [more...]
Live Earth, The Concerts for a Climate in Crisis
Live Earth is committed to producing the most eco-friendly series of concerts possible. Please view this website for all Live Earth events and so much more!