Updates from HEASC

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Sustainability in Higher Education Gets Coverage in Newsweek and Time

Both Newsweek and Time featured articles on greening trends on campus recently. The Presidents Climate Commitment was noted in both articles, although not by name. The articles can be accessed at the following:

• Newsweek: The Green Campus
• Time Magazine: Getting Schools to Think and Act Green

Institute for Community College Development Leadership Issues Series Held at Cornell

Debra Rowe participated in Cornell’s ICCD Leadership Issues Series—”Sustainability for Community Colleges: Curriculum, Culture, Conservation", and was the featured speaker at the event, which took place on Aug 5-8.

At the conference, participants learned about and created plans on:

• how to include a sustainability focus in all areas of the campus – curricula, operations, purchasing, facilities, planning, etc.
• how to use the role of higher education and their institution to help shift society to sustainability
• how to utilize students and staff to engage in democracy and support elected representatives to change regulations to produce a sustainable future (e.g., moving from service learning to political service and engagement)

Several Upcoming SCUP Sustainability-Related Events

• Campus Sustainability Day V
  Registration is open for the fifth annual SCUP webcast supporting Campus Sustainability Day entitled: Building a Durable Future: Community, the Campus, and Deep Economy. It will be held Wednesday, October 24, 2007 from noon – 1:30pm, eastern time. Presenters include Norm Christopher, Director of Sustainability, Grand Valley State University, Tom Kimmerer, Executive Director of AASHE, and Bill McKibben.
• David Orr to Keynote SCUP's North Central Regional Conference
  "Our Campus - My Space" is October 15-17 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
• SCUP & The New York Times Teaming Up
  We're looking at a November date for a webcast, one of a series of webcasts on differing topics with The New York Times, on "Climate Change and Higher Education: Leadership to Achieve Climate Neutrality." Details to come.

Call for Sustainability-Related Events for Mailing to College and University Presidents

SCUP will be fulfilling its Campus Sustainability Day sponsorship obligations with a mail-out to college and university presidents in early September. If you have sustainability-related events on your calendar during the coming academic year and can provide a name, location, date, and maybe a link, please send them, ASAP, to terry.calhoun@scup.org.

Nature’s Website Adds New Section on Climate Change

The distinguished journal Nature has covered climate issues for decades. They have now pulled it all together into a new website that is a rich source of science-based information on climate change. There is also a free monthly report, Nature Reports Climate Change, available at the same site. Full content of all articles, except recent original research articles, is available.

Also, the latest in the Nature Collections series looks at the promises and pitfalls of new energy technologies, including the potential of biofuels and nuclear power, new ways to lock away CO2, and renewables such as solar and wind power. Read the series.

Buying Green Computers Is Easy

Sam Hummel, AASHE’s IT Manager recently posted some excellent information on purchasing “green” computers. If you are in the market for new desktops or laptops, you’ll want to consider machines that consume less energy, have good take-back policies and reduce the use of toxic materials. Sam includes links to third-party verification systems that will help you make the best choice for clean and green machines. Read Sam’s posting on AASHE’s new staff blog here.