POV: Beyond the Clean Power Plan
With last December’s landmark climate accord at the United Nations’ Paris conference, the Obama administration gained the mandate to begin implementing its Clean Power Plan (CPP). The CPP requires a 32...
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Solar Power Saves Everyone Money
Hoping to reduce their greenhouse emissions, Kelley Hippler and her husband, Tom, installed solar panels on the roof of their Colonial-style home in suburban Sharon in summer 2015. “We had, like a lot...
View ArticleNew MBTA Pass Discount for Employees
Starting in September, Boston University will provide an MBTA pass subsidy to regular faculty and staff who order a monthly T-pass through BU. This new benefit, available to employees on the Charles...
View ArticlePutting Emphasis on Sustainability at Orientation
It’s 8 a.m. on a Friday morning during a Freshman Orientation session and Lena Adams (SAR’19), dressed in a green T-shirt, is scraping breakfast leftovers and napkins off a sleepy freshman’s plate in...
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Students Rally for Fossil Fuel Divestment
About 100 students rallied on Marsh Plaza Wednesday afternoon to urge BU’s divestment from fossil fuel companies. Chanting and singing, they marched afterward to the BU Castle, leaving a box of...
View ArticleStudent Feedback Influences Dining Services Changes
You spoke and Dining Services listened. The Warren Towers dining hall has extended its dinner service to 10 p.m. from Monday to Thursday. The one-hour extension is in response to student feedback from...
View ArticleTrustees Adopt Broad Climate Change Strategy
Expanding BU’s efforts to curb climate change, the Board of Trustees last week unanimously approved a broad strategy, including efforts to avoid investments in companies that extract coal and tar sands...
View ArticleBU Increases Its Target for Sustainable Food Sources
When you beat your own expectations, what do you do? You aim higher. BU’s Dining Services has upped its goal for procuring food from sustainable food sources and is now aiming to get 25 percent of its...
View ArticleBU’s Farmers Market Supports Local Businesses
Over the last few weeks, Jenna Connor has gotten really creative with eggplant. Connor’s community supported agriculture (CSA) share recently gifted her with a big batch of the purple nightshade, and...
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Satellite Images Map Deforestation
October in Boston means kicking up yellow leaves on the sidewalk, crunching through the fallen evidence of New England’s autumn glory. The splash of color on the trees marks the last gasp of warmth...
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A Holiday Recipe from Peter Ungár of Tasting Counter
Peter Ungár’s Tasting Counter in Somerville is to food what a symphony concert is to music: customers arrive with ticket in hand, and all that’s expected of them is to sit back and experience, savor,...
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Peter Ungár Serves Up Duck for the Holidays
Peter Ungár’s Tasting Counter in Somerville is to food what a symphony concert is to music: customers arrive with ticket in hand, and all that’s expected of them is to sit back and experience, savor,...
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Climate Change Skepticism May Hinge on Personal Experience
In early 2014, freezing air from the polar vortex at the North Pole swept into the United States. The resulting record cold temperatures and snowfall grounded planes, knocked out power, and caused...
View ArticleSchool of Law Project Earns Gold LEED Certification
The BU School of Law makeover won plaudits from students and faculty for its vibrant design and state-of-the art-classrooms and moot courtroom when it was completed in 2015. Now the renovation and...
View ArticleClimate Task Force Meets Tonight
Students, faculty, and staff, would you like the opportunity to suggest measures for BU’s Climate Action Plan (CAP)? The task force that’s writing the CAP holds its first workshop tonight, offering the...
View ArticleGoing Green Earns Plaudits for BU
BU’s commitment to becoming a more sustainable community has earned accolades from two different organizations. The University was recently ranked the 25th most sustainable college in the United States...
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Selling Apparel to Benefit Ocean Conservation
The students in Alexa Pisano’s class on ocean preservation last year discussed several ways to show their concern for the environment. They could take shorter showers. Or turn the lights off when...
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Good News and Bad News about Forest Fragmentation
Over the past centuries, as we humans have cleared fields for farms, built roads and highways, and expanded cities ever outward, we’ve been cutting down trees. Since 1850, we’ve reduced global forest...
View ArticlePOV: Uniting against Executive Order on the Clean Power Plan
Last week, standing beside a dozen coal miners, Donald Trump signed an executive order to undo President Obama’s Clean Power Plan. The Obama plan would reduce greenhouse gas emissions from dirty...
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The High Cost of Summer Energy Price Spikes
On one of the hottest days on record in recent Massachusetts history—August 2, 2006—the mercury hit 37 degrees Celsius (about 99 degrees Fahrenheit), with 65 percent humidity. It was a scorcher, and...
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