Climate Change
Another university goes greener: Harvard
We’ve already looked at several universities that are undergoing green transformations, like Yale, and Cambridge. This is fantastic news: students that get to learn about sustainability and witness it all around them will help to further spread it during their [...]
University of British Columbia developing the greenest building
The University of British Columbia, in Canada, started building last September what is being referred to as the potentially greenest construction in North America. It will be home to CIRS (Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability). The required investment has [...]
Why is gardening good for kids?
At Sustentator, we’re developing a project to help a rural elementary school grow its own organic garden. I thought this was a good opportunity to analyze why gardening might be beneficial for kids. It all depends on how we address [...]
Yale University works to green its campus
We have already looked at Cambridge and its green development plans. Now it’s the turn for Yale University. One of the most surprising and encouraging facts I’ve found doing some research is that Yale has developed a new building which [...]
16-year-old student identifies microbes that can biodegrade plastic bags
Plastic is not biodegradable. It can take hundreds of years for the sun and other agents of nature to degrade it. Because of this, environmentalists dream of abandoning plastic or creating a biodegradable plastic. Now it appears that a 16-year-old [...]
Environmental education improves school performance
The Coastal Roots Program seeks to protect coastal areas and wetlands in Louisiana; by educating students and making them part of the solution. Educators from the program have created lessons in which kids are taught environmental contents. After a study, [...]
