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A Farm in the Sky
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! Actually, it’s a farm. Three stories above busy Albany Street, the Boston Medical Center (BMC) rooftop farm’s inaugural season is winding down. Farm manager Lindsay Allen...
View ArticleCan Boston Be a Green City by 2050?
By the middle of the century, Boston hopes to fill its streets with electric cars, cover its rooftops with solar panels, and rid its skies of all carbon emissions. In 2007, Boston joined cities around...
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CAS Scientists Develop ACES to Monitor Greenhouse-Gas Emissions
In June 2017, President Donald Trump announced the United States’ intent to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, an international accord to reduce global greenhouse-gas emissions. The following October,...
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Leaders of US Cities Worried about Lack of Affordable Housing
If you want to get mayors of US cities talking, says BU political scientist David Glick, ask them about affordable housing. Republicans and Democrats alike, mayors of big coastal cities and medium-size...
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Fixing Climate Change Is Good Business, Whatever President Trump Says
From former secretary of state John Kerry to BU energy expert Cutler Cleveland, two clarion takeaways dominated last Thursday’s International Mayors Climate Summit held at the University: first,...
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University Announces Massive Wind Power Purchase
Boston University will buy nonpolluting wind power for 15 years beginning in 2020, a major step in the University’s Climate Action Plan (CAP) to curb greenhouse gas emissions. BU will buy the power...
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Tips for Protecting Your Bike from Thieves
A BU police officer caught a bike thief on a recent Saturday afternoon as he walked down Blandford Street carrying not one, but two stolen bicycles. It was easy pickins for the thief, says Robert E....
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BU Hult Prize Winners Aim to Bring Learning to Refugee Camps
It’s a long way from Comm Ave to Bekaa Valley, but an idea pitched by three BU students to a select audience at the BUildLab Monday night could have a profound impact in refugee camps in Lebanon and...
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Prodded by Students, BU Phases Out an Environmental Scourge: Plastic Straws
BU doesn’t have plastic straws at its residence dining halls. Yet it still went through 27,000 a year at retail sites (such as City Convenience stores and the George Sherman Union food court), Rhett’s...
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Embracing Sustainable Fashion
When you think about industries that are harmful to the environment, chances are metals, plastic, or coal come to mind. But not the clothes in your closet. So consider this the next time you try on a...
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BU Carpenter: From Gas Guzzler to Green Machine
Meet Mike Wagner, BU’s greenest super-commuter. A year ago, the 52-year-old University carpenter made some pretty radical lifestyle changes—he outfitted his home with solar panels and bought a hybrid...
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Six Quotes from BU Entrepreneurs to Ignite Your Innovative Spirit
How do you create meaningful impact through innovation? Seeking answers to that question, more than 300 students from Boston University and other area universities and colleges trudged through...
View ArticleBU Undergrad Researchers Find Microplastic Pollution in Seagrasses
Parrotfish—brightly colored, roving vegetarians of tropical oceans—are a precious element of the marine ecosystem in the Caribbean waters off the coast of Belize. It’s not because schools of...
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BU’s Annual Earth Day Festivals Kick Off Today on Medical Campus
Earth Day is fast approaching—the official observance each year is April 22—and sustainability@BU is once again planning to host two Earth Day festivals, one on the Medical Campus set for today,...
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Moving Out? Don’t Throw Away Those Old Clothes
It’s become an annual rite of spring on college campuses: as exams begin and students start packing up for the summer or for graduation, they’re faced with the daunting task of figuring out what to do...
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