The Daily Camera reports the University of Colorado’s Boulder campus has received another green designation. The Sustainable Endowments Institute, a special project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors gave CU the highest grade awarded on its 2010 report card. And for the second year in a row, CU was named an Overall College Sustainability Leader.
CU this fall [...]
The University of Mississippi is using data from SmartSynch’s smart meters and passing it to dashboards for campus operations personnel to monitor, analyze and act via RSS and social networking tools like Twitter and Facebook. As a part of the university’s Red, Blue and Green initiative, students and faculty can register with the school’s Green [...]
This video is worth a few minutes of your time.
The Generation WE movement is the largest generation in history, they are independant – politically, socially, and philosophically – and are spearheading a period of sweeping change in America and around the world. Check it out.
Every now and again, you meet someone and immediately know they are making a real difference for a lot of people. Robyn Johnson is such a person. For much of the last ten years, she has provided many Colorado teens with guidance, education and experiences they would likely have never seen without her hard work [...]
For the second year in a row, Forbes names Boulder ’smartest city’ in U.S. While a more accurate name would be the most educated city in the U.S., I can easily support the argument that the place is full of people with impressive intellectual power. Come visit us and see.
PlayPumps International has a goal to help 10 million people in 4,000 African villages by 2010 by installing merry-go-rounds in the villages. What’s the catch?
Each turn pumps clean drinking water into a tank increasing the health of everyone in the village. The time and effort for water carrying, mostly done by young girls, is greatly reduced, allowing [...]
Interested in helping kids connect with their community? Want children to be exposed to giving back at an early age? Desire for middle school kids to appreciate the environment. Then please consider a financial contribution to Colorado Youth Program. This Boulder County organization provides a free after school program, Adventure Club, [...]
Tim Ferris asks you to consider these questions as he recommends helping to make the world a better place through access to books in LitLiberation: How to Travel the World–and Get a Personal Assistant–for Free
Envision the 5 books that have most impacted your life. How would your life be different if you’d never read them?
Where [...]
Why is it so hard to change, even when the evidence for doing so is overwhelming? This article from Scientific American, answers the question Why is a minute divided into 60 seconds, an hour into 60 minutes, yet there are only 24 hours in a day?
It is interesting, if not surprising, that these measurements [...]
Are our schools prepared for the challenges our kids will face this century? This decade? Alvin Toffler suggest our schools were built to prepare the rural American child for the industrial revolution. Get to work on time, enjoy repetitive tasks and essentially fall in line. Agree? Perhaps we have advanced somewhat since the late 1800’s [...]
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