Spend time during summer recess at school without being required to do so? That’s precisely what a group of Boston, Massachusetts, area students were slated to do – skip the beach to instead test local swimming waters for bacteria. To explore how the same nanotechnology that makes iPods possible can be ushered through the body

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They’re helping to develop electric vehicle charging stations in Tennessee that operate with solar power. They can tour a Delaware Air Force Base to help with innovations for cleaning chemical spills that can affect water supplies within the ground. They devised a program in Utica, NY, where recycled steel drums catch rainwater for irrigation rather

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College and university campuses aren’t only teaching students about sustainability. They’re also going green. In addition to adding environmentally-friendly campus structures, farms, gardens, composting programs, and research centers, institutions of higher education reporting their greenhouse gas emissions and creating “Climate Action Plans”. An annual report released in June by the Association for the Advancement of

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