You’ve gone to your local university site, searched our directory or visited a nearby campus and found the green educational program of your dreams, but your cheers are dampened by that big tuition price tag. It shouldn’t be this way. We all remember when the President spoke of putting “science back in its rightful place”, [...]
Going Green, Going Abroad by John Carpenter, askjohnaboutcollege.com Many of the posts here this summer have addressed study abroad as an option for kids, but this one is going to be a little bit more personal. I think study abroad is a GREAT idea–look at where I’ve lived: London, Asunción, Istanbul, Santiago, Munich. In those [...]
SEATTLE, WA – In a city famous for its grey skies, dark coffee blends and even darker music scenes – there’s something brighter brewing. That is why students are buzzing about the Certificate in Green IT program recently being offered through the University of Washington’s Professional and Continuing Education department. As a new and innovative [...]
Are we about to face the end of the world as we know it? Author James G. Speth thinks so. In one of his final passages from The Bridge at the Edge of the World, he writes, “We are rapidly hollowing out nature, ourselves, and our society. Beyond the fork, down either path, is the [...]
Green Education & Industry Fair for Teens With Free Opportunity For Vendors Green Education & Industry Fair for Teens to be held in Ohio. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PRLog (Press Release) – Apr 26, 2011 – From April 30, 2011 – 1:00 pm to April 30, 2011 – 4:00 pm North Olmsted, Ohio, United States Green [...]
I am convinced that the still unfolding crisis at the Fukushima nuclear power plant will have far reaching effects on people and governments around the world. Within days we have already seen numerous nations respond with moratoria on nuclear power plant construction, order shut-downs of older facilities, and more importantly we have seen a notable [...]
In this time of economic and ecological uncertainty we need new thinking including new ways of conducting business and manufacturing goods – and we need it now. But, let’s face the facts. Most of the “green” educational programs out there are expensive and take years to complete. For many of us going back to college [...]
Woo hoo! Our very first press release! GreenDegreeDirectory.com Launches 2011 Highlight Series, Stony Brook University First Of Ten To Gain Spotlight DELAWARE, Mar. 17 /PressReleasePoint/ — In an effort to increase green education enrollments and program offerings, GreenDegreeDirectory.com has just launched a new GDD Green Program Highlight Series. The new series allows the GreenDegreeDirectory.com community [...]
While getting onto an elevator the other day, I zoned out on its floor indicator panel which had the name Flohr-Otis written on it. Otis, I thought sounds familiar and probably is the name of the business manufacturing these things. When on the 16th floor the digital sound of a bell and the sliding noise [...]
Stony Brook now offers five new sustainability-focused degree programs so we were excited to get an opportunity to learn more. We did some finger exercises, whipped out our laptops and conducted a virtual interview with Martin Schoonen, Ph.D., Director of Sustainability Programs at Stony Brook University.* Here’s how it all went down: In what capacity [...]
It’s that time again. As spring hints at its inevitable return through longer days and melting snow, students, lots of students, are once again applying for university summer internships. So what’s this have to do with green education? A lot. I was recently asked to provide feedback for an internship program being developed at my [...]
The Money Democracy and Cap & Trade Recently, I watched a video that summarized in a very entertaining way the general concept of the Cap & Trade scheme. Annie Leonard invites us in this short video to a more critical viewpoint on this issue. Considering that even Albert Einstein is quoted saying that “we can’t [...]
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