Archive for the ‘ Saving the Planet ’ Category

Frugal Gift Giving For Any Time Of Year

College students have the advantage: You’ve been starving for lots and lots of semesters and know how to work the gently-used and regifted items into glorious gifts, all wrapped up in shiny paper (or the Sunday comics, to be more realistic)[ READ MORE ]

Step Away From the Tree, Wi-Fi Junkie!

Dang we’re self-destructive little animals. Us and the lemmings, of course. The cute and fuzzy guys just off themselves on instinct; we’ve got the humiliating combination of higher thought and lack of foresight to blame[ READ MORE ]

National Geographic’s “Find Your Footprint” Contest

National Geographic and Procter & Gamble have joined forces to hold the "Find Your Footprint"[link] conservation competition for K-12 classrooms[ READ MORE ]

Save the Planet or It’s Into the Compost Bin With You!

Yes, anyone who fears a dead-planet future has strong feelings about the humans who actively contribute to global warming at an alarming hourly rate. But I don’t think those incomprehensibly asinine poopheads deserve instantaneous annihilation. [ READ MORE ]

BookRenter.com

Purchasing spankin’ new copies of textbooks unrelated to your future field is unnecessary. [ READ MORE ]

14 Ways To Save Green While Increasing Greenness

Arjun Muralidharan, aka the Productive Student, has a list of 14 ways college students can strive for greenness on Earth. You’ll want to do them all to slow the destruction of the planet, but you’ll actually do them to save yourself some coinage[ READ MORE ]

Meat School

The month-long intensive certificate course at SUNY’s meat lab in Cobleskill, near Albany, teaches everything a student needs to know to run their own small meat-processing business. [ READ MORE ]

Institute on the Environment Joins Forces With Stanford’s Natural Capital Project

It’s a marvelous sign when institutions of higher learning join forces to make the world a better place. From the UMN press release: – New partnership links IonE with Stanford University, The Nature Conservancy and World Wildlife Fund – MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (06/30/2010) —The University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment today announced a [ READ MORE ]

Guide to 286 Green Colleges

This guide may have some merit as it has, at the very least, aggregated planet-saving information and[italics] it’s free. Also: downloadable (saves the trees and whatnot)[ READ MORE ]

University of Minnesota Hosts Idealist.org Career Fair and WFC Conference

For those interested in pursuing or advancing a career in social justice, nonprofit or government work, the University of Minnesota is hosting the 2010 Idealist.org Nonprofit Career Fair and Working for Change Conference on Tuesday, April 13, at Coffman Union, Great Hall, 300 Washington Ave. S.E., Minneapolis. [ READ MORE ]