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A green tailgate in the land of orange and white

By Mike Ellis independentmail.com October 8, 2011 CLEMSON UNIVERSITY — It’s built to be an inviting front “porch” to be pulled out at Clemson University football games. It can be compacted down to a width of two-and-a-half feet so it will fit between crowds and in tight spaces while being pulled by a bicycle. Students […]

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Students Create Green Club to Promote Recycling, Saving the Earth

By Stephanie Rex patch.com October 6, 2011 Students from Edgewood and Forest Hills started a club at Sacred Heart Elementary in Shadyside to encourage others to recycle every day. Two students at Sacred Heart Elementary School are determined to make a difference through a recycling club they initiated in an effort to help save the

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A Day to Celebrate Being Green

By Leslie Friday www.bu.edu/today 09.15.2011 BU sponsors sustainability festival, Carbon Day It’s a good day to be green. The University is sponsoring two events today designed to promote eco-friendly lifestyles and environmental education: the sustainability@BU Festival, at the George Sherman Union Plaza, and Carbon Day, in Copley Square. The second annual sustainability@BU Festival, running from

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Massey University hosts ‘green’ Michigan State students

By Staff www.massey.ac.nz 08/08/2011 It may not be easy being green, but students from Michigan State University believe it is the way forward for universities worldwide. In New Zealand last week, 28 first-year students from the university took part in a two-week study abroad programme hosted by Massey’s Sustainability Group, chaired by Dr Allanah Ryan,

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Big Green Bus tour highlights environmental awareness

The Big Green Bus visited the Rio Hotel Wednesday, August 3, 2011. The old Greyhound coach bus has been converted to run on waste vegetable oil and outfitted with solar panels to transport the 13 Dartmouth College students around the country to talk and teach about sustainability. By Kyle Hansen Las Vegas Sun Aug. 3,

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Innovative Public Media Partnership Focuses on the Environment

By Kathleen Tuck boisestate.edu July 13th, 2011 Boise State Public Radio and Idaho Public Television, have joined the largest public media institutions in the Pacific Northwest to create EarthFix — an innovative approach to help citizens examine environmental issues unfolding in their own backyards and to explore how local actions intersect with national issues. With

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San Diego’s green jobs grow in national report

By Mike Lee signonsandiego.com July 13, 2011 The green economy in metropolitan San Diego remains modest despite years of efforts to bolster industries that create environmental benefits, according Business leaders across the nation have been racing to develop clean-tech jobs because they are viewed as a major economic growth opportunity given international pressures to reduce

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PEDALING FOR A CAUSE: Students see Keene as a model

By Kyle Jarvis The Keene Sentinel [New Hampshire] July 11, 2011 For a group of college students pedaling around the Granite State on bicycles to raise awareness about climate change, Keene is apparently a model community. New England Climate Summer is an unpaid internship program that sends students from around the country out on bicycles,

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Fighting pollution, with Green Ganpati’s blessings

By Kranti Vibhute mid-day.com (India) 2011-07-11 A group of college students started making eco-friendly idols of the God last year, and are enjoying unprecedented popularity, with orders pouring in for this year’s festival While the city gears up for days of frenetic revelry this September, ecologists have been shouting themselves hoarse, at pains to alert

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Santa Monica High School Students Inspire Thought About Environment

By Susan Cloke SANTA MONICA MIRROR JULY. 3, 2011 Charlotte Biren and Jenna Perelman have been thinking about the natural environment and preparing to be environmental stewards since their elementary school days. They shine with confidence in their understanding of what needs to be done to create environmental sustainability and their commitment to get the

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