01 May 2012
Penn State Offers Minor in Sustainability Leadership
This intercollege minor allows students in any major to incorporate sustainability as a significant theme in their undergraduate degree program.
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21 April 2012
Earth Day!
Earth Day is April 22, and the EPA is excited to share many opportunities with you to celebrate and engage!
Join the conversation! We've created a place for you to talk about environmental issues and share environmental tips you use every day.
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Six Words for the Planet.
EPA and SMITH Magazine are teaming up to invite you to submit six words to describe our planet. SMITH Magazine will feature them on smithmag.net/planet and the EPA post them. Now through June 30. Get writing!
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Come to a local event.
Check out the Earth Day website for events near you and lots of other things you can do to participate in and celebrate Earth Day!
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29 March 2012
Skeptical Science
Skeptics vigorously criticize any evidence that supports man-made global warming. Do their arguments have any scientific basis? What does the peer-reviwed scientific literature say?
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01 March 2012
Water Footprint Calculator
What is your water footprint?
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17 February 2012
Scholarship Opportunity!
The Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation expects to award 80 scholarships to sophomore and junior level college studens commited to careers related to the environment, tribal public policy, or Native American health care. Deadline for this years' scholarship is March 5, 2012.
Learn more about the application process »
28 January 2012
China. The Full On Harvard Course.
"Malcolm Riddell at China Debate just did a post noting how Harvard University has posted online (for free!) a 37 class course on China.
The 37 lectures were filmed as they were given as part of a course entitled, China: Traditions and Transformations. The course was/is taught by William C. Kirby and Peter K. Bol."
Read more about the course»
28 January 2012
NRDC - China Environmental News Alert!
"NRDC has been working in China for over fifteen years on such issues as energy efficiency, green buildings, clean energy technologies, environmental governance and public participation, and green supply chain issues. This China Environmental News Alert is a weekly compilation of news from around the world on China and the environment."
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04 January 2012
Academic Earth
Check out online courses from the world's top scholars!
http://academicearth.org/
30 December 2011
Yaguara's Newsletter
Read how researcher and CHANCE collaborator, Aida Bustamante, is helping to save wild cats throughout Central America. Hopefully, we'll get to spot her and some of her cats in Panama this summer during our 2012 field program!
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30 December 2011
EOL Google Earth Tours - Biodiversity on the Move!
Atlantic Public Media and Eduardo Garcia Milagros were granted a Google Earth Developer Grant to produce "One Species at a Time: Stories of Biodiversity on the Move, with the Encyclopedia of Life", in Google Earth narrated tours. Narrated by our podcast host Ari Daniel Shapiro, these tours are available as videos and Google Earth kmz files.
View all of the EOL Google Earth Tours»
03 November 2011
Challenge Based Learning
The New Media Consortium community is filled with thought leaders, innovators, and change agents. We all share the common purpose of making learning more engaging, effective, and inclusive -- Challenge Based Learning (CBL) is a new multidisciplinary approach that is doing just that. CBL draws from the best aspects of project- and problem-based learning while integrating emerging technologies to foster more critical thinking and active experiences.
Visit the NMC website for more information »
19 October 2011
FLORIDA STATE FROG FINDER FUNDED
Chorus Frog Compensation
A field technician position is available in the laboratory of Dr. Emily Moriarty Lemmon at Florida State University beginning early January through mid-March 2012 to help in the study of female choice and population variation in chorus frogs (Pseudacris). The technician will travel with a team throughout the southeastern USA (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia) to assist in collecting specimens and performing female choice tests. Working conditions will often times be rainy and cold, and the technician will be expected to camp for significant periods of time.
Preference will be giving to those applicants with extensive field experience.
Compensation will be $480 per week (corresponding to $10.00/hr; for approximately 8 hours/day; 6 days/week) for a total of 10 weeks and will also include food and lodging during fieldwork. For students planning on graduate school, this experience would look great on your resume.
To apply for this position, please contact Dr. John Malone at jmalone@bio.fsu.edu and include a CV along with contact information for three references.
03 October 2011
EPA - Jobs and Internships
Are you ready to accomplish something really worthwhile in your career? If so, consider joining the more than 17,000 men and women of the EPA.
EPA leads the nation's environmental science, research, education and assessment efforts, and works to protect our health and our environment.
Numerous opportunities are available within EPA for students to gain vital career experience while contributing to the mission of protecting human health and safeguarding the environment. Internships, fellowships and other opportunities are available in Washington, D.C., laboratories, and at regional EPA locations nationwide.
Check out the available opportunities with the EPA »
19 July 2011
The Climate Reality Project
"The Climate Reality Project is bringing the facts about the climate crisis into the mainstream and engaging the public in conversation about how to solve it. We help citizens around the world discover the truth and take meaningful steps to bring about change."
Founded and chaired by Al Gore, The Climate Reality Project has more than 5 million members and supporters worldwide. Visit this website, watch the video "24 Hours of Reality®" and get ready for September 14, 2011. Get ready to TAKE ACTION!
http://climaterealityproject.org »
21 June 2011
Endangered Species Ringtones
Download cell-phone ringtones with the call of an endangered species, or display its likeness on your wallpaper. Available free from the Center for Biological Diversity.
www.rareearthtones.org »
15 June 2011
The Good Earth
Learn about the health, environmental, and social performance of everyday products and the companies that make them. www.goodguide.com »
07 June 2011
Lord of the Ants
NOVA profiles the soft-spoken Southerner and Harvard professor, Edward O. Wilson, who is an acclaimed advocate for ants, biological diversity, and the controversial extension of Darwinian ideas to human society.
Vist Nova »
07 June 2011
Carbon Release to Atmosphere 10 times faster than in the Past, Geologists Find
Read how researchers from Penn State University have found that the rate of release of carbon into the atmosphere today is nearly 10 times as fast as during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), 55.9 million years ago.
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07 June 2011
The Warriors of Qiugang: A Chinese Village Fights Back
Watch the Academy Award nominee video for Best Documentary Short Subject, co-produced by Yale Environment 360 with filmmakers Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon.
07 June 2011
Yale Environment 360
An online magazine offering opinion, analysis, reporting and debate on global environmental issues. Featured are original articles by scientists, journalists, environmentalists, academics, policy makers, and business people, as well as multimedia content and a daily digest of major environmental news. Funded in part by grants from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
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