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Alternative Spring Breaks: Flagstaff, Arizona
Last week, more than 300 students volunteered in this year’s BU Community Service Alternative Spring Breaks program. ASB paired students with more than three dozen organizations around the country...
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Self-Cleaning System Boosts Efficiency of Solar Panels
The energy from the sun that hits the Earth in a single hour could power the planet for an entire year, according to the US Department of Energy (DOE). One of the best places to harness that free,...
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Got (Local) Fish?
Dining in New England doesn’t get more local than eating fish served by the fisherman. And that’s going to be possible tonight at Marciano Commons, Warren Towers, and West Campus from 5 to 8 p.m. as...
View ArticleBoston Awards BU a Carbon Cup
We interrupt the grim drumbeat about climate change for an upbeat personal bulletin. BU is ahead of Boston’s target for cutting institutional greenhouse gases. That achievement garnered one of Mayor...
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New Exhibit Showcases Energy Innovations
Headlines trumpeting global warming, rising sea levels, and depleted ozone herald a bleak future. But a new traveling exhibit currently on view at Northeastern University suggests that when it comes to...
View ArticleBU Faculty Petition Urges Divestment from Fossil Fuel Companies
In an effort to combat climate change, 245 BU faculty members have signed a petition asking the University to divest oil, gas, and coal companies from its endowment. The petition was presented by four...
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Civil Disobedience, a Love Story
He wants to be president. She wants Jerusalem to become the adoption capital of the world. They are taking Israel by storm. Yosef “Captain Sunshine” Abramowitz is a longtime human rights activist, a...
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The Future, Buried in the Deep
“By looking at the natural system—how rapidly it changes and under what conditions—we can get a sense of what the likely scale of future changes will be.” —Richard Murray In the video above, see how...
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Get Your Green On
Today marks the 45th anniversary of Earth Day and this year’s theme is It’s Our Turn to Lead. That theme will play out today during BU’s celebration of Earth Day at the GSU Plaza, from 11 a.m. to 2:30...
View ArticlePOV: Foreign Land Grabs Aren’t Reducing Poverty
In recent years, there has been a trend involving large-scale investments in the agriculture sectors of developing countries. Typically, these have involved transnational corporations and foreign...
View ArticleDorms Compete in October Energy Challenge
“Turn off the lights when you leave the room.” “Switch to energy-efficient light bulbs.” “Take shorter showers.” “Unplug your electronics when you’re not using them.” Rather than just environmental...
View ArticleBU Dining Services Reaches a Big Goal, Ahead of Schedule
Grass-fed beef? Check. Cage-free eggs? You got it. Certified Humane chicken? BU’s dining locations offer that, too. BU Dining Services recently released its 2015 Sustainability Report, which details...
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BU Talks Climate Action at the White House
Boston University pledged yesterday to reduce its carbon emissions by 35 percent in four million square feet of building space by 2020, adding to the 35 percent reduction in carbon emissions it has...
View ArticleEarth House Doubles as Environmental Classroom
Vivien Chen takes a five-minute timer with her to the shower. So does Mark Holaday, and they both use watt-counters when turning on lights and electrical devices. Neurotic? No: this drill is course...
View ArticleCAS Prof Investigates “the Mother of All Gas Leaks”
Of all the thousands of natural gas leaks he’s tracked, Nathan Phillips has never encountered a monster like this. The College of Arts & Sciences professor of earth and environment went to Los...
View ArticleBU Researchers Welcome Obama’s Final Budget Proposals
That President Obama and congressional Republicans have been at loggerheads for eight years is hardly a news flash. But there are signs that the president’s final proposed budget might yield kumbayas...
View ArticleQuestrom Welcomes Renowned Sustainability Expert
It’s not the rat race that keeps sustainability expert Peter Fox-Penner up at night. Rather it’s the race to decarbonization, or deep reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, before the world faces “very...
View ArticleACSRI Proposes Creation of Broad Climate Plan
The BU Board of Trustees was presented on Friday with a broad-based proposal to expand the University’s sustainability initiatives, as well as a recommendation to divest from companies that continue to...
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BU Celebrates Earth Day 2016
More than 2,000 people are expected to fill the GSU Plaza today as the University celebrates its sixth annual Earth Day Festival. Hosted by sustainability@BU, the event runs from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m....
View ArticleUS Secretary of Energy Moniz to Receive Honorary Degree
Engineering a clean-energy future is very much on Ernest J. Moniz’s mind these days, as the world tries to turn the Paris Agreement on climate into action to reduce global warming. As US Secretary of...
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