New Pardee Center Director Named
President Barack Obama announced a commitment during his inaugural address earlier this week to tackle climate change during his second term, noting that to avoid the issue would “betray our children...
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Three BU Restaurants Get Four Stars for Eco-Friendliness
Leanne Ciccone wasn’t aware that Rize, the upscale café at the Center for Student Services that she visits “embarrassingly a lot,” is a four-star restaurant. Well, sort of. It wasn’t given that rating...
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Alternative Visions/Sustainable Futures
How do we go about creating a sustainable future? That question is at the center of a new project titled Alternative Visions/Sustainable Futures, a collaboration between the College of Fine Arts School...
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RecycleMania Competition Under Way
Has it been a decade since you last sorted through your files? Is your desk littered with unwanted junk mail and catalogues? Have you been throwing your plastic water bottles in the trash? If you...
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A BU Center to Promote Cleaner Cities?
As both an engineer and a motorist, Christos Cassandras feels the pain of drivers on Commonwealth Avenue. Although he usually leaves work after the evening rush has waned, he invariably hits a red...
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The Climate Crisis: Why the Earth Is Warming
In this weeklong series, BU researchers explore the science behind Earth’s environmental changes, and what they mean for our future. Watch this video on YouTube In the video above, Bruce Anderson...
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The Climate Crisis: Tracking Change, Predicting Trouble
Winter is getting warmer, spring is coming earlier, and plants are enjoying an extended growing season in northern areas. But that is not good news. In this weeklong series, BU researchers explore the...
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The Climate Crisis: Breaking the Fossil Fuel Habit
In this weeklong series, BU researchers explore the science behind Earth’s environmental changes, and what they mean for our future. Think of it as worldwide addiction. At least 80 percent of the...
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The Climate Crisis: Your Job or Your Planet?
In this weeklong series, BU researchers explore the science behind Earth’s environmental changes, and what they mean for our future. For a glimpse of a ferocious front in our war over climate change,...
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DivestBU Pushes for Green Endowment
Some movements start with a bang; others start more quietly, with an idea like the one planted in Benjamin Thompson’s brain after he read Bill McKibben’s July 2012 Rolling Stone article “Global...
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BU Team Takes a First at MIT Clean Energy Competition
A new technology that could be a game-changer for energy use in today’s commercial buildings, the result of a collaboration between two BU schools, took first prize in the energy efficiency category of...
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BU Earns Greenovate Boston Award
BU’s favorite color—right behind scarlet and white, of course—is green. Why? Because the University has made a solid commitment over the past several years to embrace ecofriendly practices that have...
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Summer Construction on the Charles River Campus
Step outside nearly any door this summer, and you’re likely to see cranes and work crews engaged in one of more than 20 construction projects on the Charles River Campus, ranging from a new athletic...
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Bike Safety Focus of BU’s Sustainability Festival
Get a sticky note and jot this down: Bring bike to campus today. Why? Because you could score a free bike tune-up along with a helmet, lights, and other cycling swag just by showing up at Marsh Plaza...
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If Boston Were Smart
Last year, the Daily Beast named Boston the country’s smartest metropolitan area. The website was referring to the people of Boston, of course, not the city itself. But what if the city itself were...
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BU Profs Take Energy Conservation from Lecture Hall to Real Life
The next time you walk into an office lobby that’s freezing on an August afternoon or an apartment that’s sweltering on a January morning, consider this: buildings are energy hogs, responsible for more...
View ArticlePOV: Is Philippines Typhoon the New Normal?
Typhoon Haiyan, which slammed into the Philippines in early November, killed nearly 5,000 and left a wide swath of ruin, homelessness, and human despair. Haiyan was perhaps the most powerful storm on...
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Ecosystems and Us
“There’s a strong consensus among scientists that we’re in real danger if we don’t radically change our systems of production, consumption, and values.” – Les Kaufman In the video above, Les Kaufman, a...
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GRS Students Create Exhibition at Broadmoor Wildlife Sanctuary
If there’s one thing that captures Valerie Pasquarella’s attention, it’s a good map. The Graduate School of Arts & Sciences doctoral student in applied remote sensing discovered a trove of them...
View ArticlePOV: What We Can Learn from a Poor Nation
“USA? Very good country. Very rich.” This was how most of my conversations started this summer in Letang, a small community that begins in the plains and spreads into the hills in southeast Nepal,...
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