GreenWorksLinks Back-to-School Environmental News Digest

This week GreenWorksLinks goes back to school and looks at energy savings at institutions across the country and other items of environmental interest for returning students. While the following links are not news stories that would have made your local papers they are all steps in the right direction.

An Education in Energy Efficient Schools
Charlottesville Elementary Schools Receive Honor for Saving Energy
Global Youth United in Efforts to Stop Climate Change
Green jobs place teens in a learning environment
Wellness in the Schools
Atlanta area schools going greener
Ohio school renovates stadium with environment in mind
New 'Princeton Guide to Ecology' explores topics from climate change to community organization
Eco-Schools in the UK
LEED for Schools

Next week GreenWorksLinks looks at a project in a New York school while squeezing in a course on why the Internet goes down at inopportune times.

GreenWorksLinks Environmental News Digest

This week GreenWorksLinks takes a look at gadgets, gizmos and pie-in-the-sky ideas that may or may not take off. While the following links are not news stories that would have made your local papers they are all steps in the right direction.

We begin this week with a touch of whimsy before heading to Mars and returning safely to the desert.

Low Impact Wooden Home
Magenn Air Rotor System
Biologically Inspired Ocean Power Systems
Quiet revolution
'Cloud ship' scheme to deflect the sun's rays is favourite to cut global warming
Electric car future may power a charging industry
Reduce your Carbon skateprint: K2 Eco inline skates
Extend Your Laptop Battery Life
Free Heat From An Old Window And Some Soda Cans.
EPA Puts Weight Behind EcoCAR Competition
ASU To Save $127K Annually With LEDs

This weekend marks the 40th anniversary of Woodstock. Has the environmental movement grown or stagnated since 1969?

GreenWorksLinks Enviro News & Links Digest

As National Energy and Environment Week wraps up in America we link to news and projects from across the land. While the following links are not news stories that would have made your local papers they are steps in the right direction.

We also mix it up by adding an environmental resource or two that are worth checking out.

United We Serve Goes Green
Where the Wild Things Are
Make it Green
The One Film All People in or Interested in Green Business Should See
Chicago Walks
Holey Eco-Invention Saves 20 Percent Of Your Ink: Ecofont
Earthjustice United States of Efficiency Contest
“Green Expo/Green Image Awards” featuring Sheryl Crow
EcoArts Tours: Quite Possibly the Funnest Way to Travel
The Big Green Help
Edible Portland Platinum Green Home
Manhattanville’s new student center scores high with “green” council
Climatarians: The Global Sustainability Hub
For Hospitals, Some Sustainability Changes Pay Off in 2 Years

GreenWorksLinks is still looking for a catchy title for its digest of links and tips. Any suggestions? First prize...continued good karma.

Why Green Works Links?

Why indeed!

I've been writing about the environment for close to 20 years in various capacities through government agencies and NGOs. My interest in the well being of our planet began in high school when I researched a paper about Canadians selling their fresh water to the US. It wasn't a good idea then and it isn't a good idea now. If the wars of today are being waged over oil the wars of tomorrow will be waged over water.

But why this blog when there are so many other worthwhile blogs out there? This one is for my dad, a confirmed Luddite who does not believe in climate change. He believes that too many environmentalists talk a lot and accomplish nothing. I tend to agree but I also know that there is a lot of action on a lot of fronts that are making this planet a better place to live. This is not a blog that will focus on a call to arms, there are enough organizations out there that are rallying the troops to action.

This blog will focus on and link to direct actions undertaken from everyday people and large corporations alike. Change is being enacted. Solutions are being developed. Green Works Links will help to promote these efforts as best we can by posting them to this site.

Cheers,

Mark