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National Wildlife Foundation launches Eco-Schools USA |
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 Green your school inside, outside and throughout your curriculum! Join 43 other countries in this international initiative designed to encourage whole-school action for the environment.
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A professor, some students, a football stadium, and…zero waste? |
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 How a Colorado University professor helping students make big strides for the environment.
Dave Newport wants to make garbage cans obsolete—trash, he said, "has to stop being an option." Newport is the director of Colorado University at Boulder's Environmental Center, and he's seen a lot of change on campus in just the last four years, when he first arrived.
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How to reduce your kid's water footprint at school |
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This back to school season, teach the kids water conservation.
Teach your kids early on about their personal water footprint and all the tricks to controlling it. Just like a carbon footprint, you can take steps to minimize your water footprint and knowing is half the battle. No resource is more precious on this planet than water, and, yet, no resource is more abused, misallocated, polluted, or otherwise undrinkable; 2.6 billion people in the world lack access to sanitary toilet facilities and 1.1 billion people have no access to safe drinking water.
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Scholastic increases use of recycled paper to 15.1% |
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Aug. 27 -- Scholastic Corp., the children´s publishing company, says it´s making significant progress on the use of recycled paper in its products.
The New York-based company last year said it wanted to increase the use of recycled paper to 25% by 2012, including 75% of that amount coming from post-consumer sources.
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College cafeteria trays may encourage food waste |
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 It’s no secret that food waste is a big issue in this country. We Americans chuck nearly 15 percent of the food we buy. Our country’s cafeterias are no exception. But according to a new study done in the Environmental Studies Department at American University, this percentage can be significantly reduced just by removing cafeteria trays from the dining halls. You’d be shocked at how much.
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